By Eva Williams 8 days ago, Apps and Software
Styldod
Verdict: Styldod provides quick edits but the main disadvantage is that some details in the edited photos don’t have a realistic look.
Although the services provided by this company are in high demand among photographers, real estate agents, and brokers, their editors don’t have extensive real estate staging experience. You can check the quality of their work by sending them 1 or 2 real estate photos. You can use this method to test 3 of their services for free.
Once you have placed your order, a Styldod editor will start working on interiors using the style you prefer. The process of virtual staging includes color adjustments, the addition of furniture items, and lighting enhancement.
✔ Ability to choose the desired style. What makes this service similar to virtual staging software is that you will have 8 design styles to choose from when placing your order. It’s up to you to pick a style that matches your venue, location, and market the best.
You can pick between Contemporary, Glam, Scandinavian, Farmhouse, Modern, Traditional, Industrial, and Coastal options. Before you finalize your selection, you can check out multiple examples of what each style can look like.
✖ No professional stagers. The members of the team know how to use the Styldod app and furniture design software, however, they don’t have an extensive background in staging luxurious homes and performing more than just basic tasks.
✖ Unrealistic result. Styldod employees also offer virtual renovation and remodeling that entail the enhancement of structural components like flooring, walls, kitchen layouts, ceilings, etc. Photos like that tend to particularly suffer from unrealistic details.
Such an effect is caused by the fact that Styldod virtual staging relies on furniture and decorations taken out of digital renderings. As such, all the featured assets were generated with software and don’t have a real-life counterpart.
✔ Help visualize commercial properties. Styldod services include all types of virtual staging as their experts have experience working with office spaces, restaurants, motels, shops, industrial complexes, and all kinds of other commercial properties while filling them with appropriate furniture and items.
The main real estate photo editing services provided by the Styldod retouchers include brightness and contrast tweaks, white balance adjustment, sharpness, and tone enhancement.
They can also add flames to the fireplace, get rid of wires and outlets, and change the sky in the background. That said, their range of editing services is fairly limited, as they don’t offer such advanced options as HDR bracketing, for example.
✔ Simple ordering and intuitive dashboard. During the order placement stage, you pick a furniture style for the spaces you planned to decorate. This is also the time when you have to upload the photo that the designers will have to work with.
Once your rooms are imported into the service, you’ll have to specify the type of space they represent and then go through a checkbox menu to pick the objects and furniture you want to include. Once you pay for the order, you’ll be taken to the platform’s dashboard which allows you to track the progress of your current project and make all future requests.
✖ Unrealistic transformations of a furnished room into a vacant space. Usually people order this service to remove unwanted personal belongings of the previous owners. It improves listings by making rooms look vacant. However, user reviews state that such edits might give your property an unrealistic feel with too many copied places and blurriness.
✖ Limited number of services that can be tested for free. When using a Styldod free trial, you can test the quality of the following services: Virtual Staging, Object Removal, and Image Enhancement. Moreover, the number of photos that you can enhance is also limited, as you can only enhance 1-2 pictures.
✔ Unlimited revisions. The company is ready to keep redoing a project as long as it takes until the client likes the result.
You just need to send your pictures to the agency’s team of experts, and they will create a day to dusk image using basic editing methods. They will adjust contrast and brightness, add light sources, as well as remove dust spots, scratches from lenses, and flash reflections. However, they don’t accept more complex requests.
✔ Quick delivery. You’ll receive the finished photos within 2 business days. You can also request 24-hour delivery for an extra fee of $12 per picture.
✖ Subpar quality. According to the official website, Styldod uses cutting-edge techniques for enhancing each image. According to user reviews, the window lighting and shadows in some photos look unnatural as well as the overall scheme.
✔ Money-back guarantee. The team promises a 100% money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied with the quality of the delivered photo.
Styldod offers a remove items service, thanks to which you can free up the space in your photo. Its retouchers delete unnecessary objects and old furniture that make the property less appealing while swapping them for digitally rendered furniture items.
✔ Additional free AI-based features. In addition to the provided service, Styldod employees have developed a tool that automatically deletes unwanted objects from a photo. In just a few clicks, you can remove unnecessary items from an image and later download the result in different popular formats including .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tiff, and .bmp.
Moreover, you can take advantage of the Flyer Maker and Video Maker tools without spending a single cent while also leveraging AI functionality to enhance your images.
✖ Limited number of tasks. The service lets you have up to 6 items deleted per photo. If you need to remove even more objects, you’ll have to create a new order or contact the managers.
✖ Only work with the real estate industry. While some alternative agencies offer a broad range of services for different fields, including background removal for product photos and portrait image retouching, this agency only gets rid of unwanted details from real estate images.
✔ Useful articles and tutorials. If you are a beginner, it might be useful for you to take a look at the Styldod blog or look for guides, ideas, and templates on the website to improve your photos. You can view articles in 20 different categories and subscribe to their newsletter to never miss a new post.
A floor plan service allows you to showcase how a venue is structured, offering relevant information about the existing space, functionality, and convenience. The company’s employees rely on free floor plan software to create 2D B&W floor plans that usually look too simple without professional touches.
✔ Customized according to user requests. A floor plan comes with room names, measurements, indicated distances between objects, surface types, etc. If you want an even more detailed visualization, you can request the designers to add furniture or paint the rooms in different colors.
✖ Occasional lost emails. According to user reviews, some of the emails sent to customer support can fail to get delivered. Moreover, you might not receive an email notification that you’re your photos are ready to be received since such emails are frequently automatically marked as Spam.
✖ Single property site is more expensive. Styldod is ready to showcase and promote your real estate listing by putting together a professional website. If you want to set up a site for a single property, you'll have to pay an extra fee of $30 per site a year. Meanwhile, alternative companies allow you to launch single property sites for free whenever you order virtual staging.
The service’s employees create 3D renders to implement their clients’ design concepts and produce attention-grabbing assets for promoting real estate properties. Using CGI and rendering software, the specialists can add textures, room layouts, colors, decoration items, furniture, light sources, etc.
✔ Work with interior and exterior photos. You can use one of the 8 premade styles, upload the desired photo, and the company’s employees will perform the necessary 3D rendering. They also create virtual tours with the help of personalized interior and exterior renders for all sorts of projects dedicated to commercial properties, retail outlets, and private housing.
✖ Take a long time to complete the project. You’ll receive the finished photos within 1-2 weeks.
✖ The service costs a lot of money. You’ll be asked to pay $250 for a single room. Moreover, the larger the room, the more you’ll have to pay, as the price can increase up to $500.
✖ Don’t always account for your requirements. According to reviews, the Styldod team can ignore the requested style and color scheme, or neglect to add the required furniture.
This 360 virtual tours service allows you to view a room from all sides. To take advantage of this service, you need to have 360° pictures that were taken with a 360° camera.
Also, the company’s experts can transform an empty room into a Matterport virtual space as well as fill it with trendy furniture that matches your desired style.
✔ Simple collaboration process. Simply upload the images, and the company’s professionals will create a virtual tour within 24 hours.
✖ Confusing pricing policy. The webpage shows the price for orders of 8 and more images. Moreover, the provided price is for a single photo, not the entire tour.
✖ The quality of the photo depends on the users. Styldod doesn't have any quality standards for its virtual tours, which is why the final product can look rather poorly.
Other than real estate shooting, Styldod services also include video creation and real estate video editing. Their team produces property video footage by combining photos and merging them into a cohesive narrative that tells the story of a listing in the form of a walkthrough.
Such videos also contain vital info like the address, size in square feet, price, agent contacts, etc.
✔ Work with multiple video formats. Other than enhancing real estate videos, the agency’s experts can edit drone videos, and branding materials, as well as business, GoPro, and other footage.
✖ Small range of video editing features. Styldod offers basic services like camera shake removal and the addition of music, logos, and transitions. Some similar companies also offer more advanced options, but the Styldod team doesn’t include any professional techniques.
✖ Editing can take a few days. Per user reviews, Styldod employees can take multiple business days to complete your order. Additionally, there’s a risk they won’t account for some of your requirements.
✔ Selection of listing promotion features. Using its Property Description Generator, you can automatically create an engaging description for your listing. Using the in-built Social Media Caption Generator, you can create attention-grabbing captions and add trending #hashtags to your posts to make your listings easier to find.
Another handy tool is the Property Video Maker which allows users to create videos in a few clicks. You just need to select the most suitable real estate video idea for the project. Similarly, you can use Real-estate Flyer Maker to create flyers for promoting your listings.
If you order Styldod virtual staging for 8 or more images, it will cost you $16 for each image. Meanwhile, orders for less than 8 images cost $19 per image. Commercial virtual staging is slightly more expensive, as the current price stands at $24 for each photo. Lastly, Matterport staging will send you back $25 per hotspot.
Prices for Virtual Renovation begin at $5 per photo, depending on the type of enhancements you need. Website development will cost you a yearly fee of $30 per site. Video creation costs $20 and the price for editing your footage is the same.
Verdict: FixThePhoto and Styldod offer reasonably-priced services. However, while Styldod only offers basic video and photo improving options, FixThePhoto will fulfill all the possible requests a client may have, from color correction to complex image manipulations.
FixThePhoto isn't limited to real estate photo enhancing but rather offers a broad range of services including headshot retouching. It represents a single-stop destination for ordering picture editing for your listing, portfolio, and social media.
The team of this service includes experienced retouchers and designers who specialize in real estate photo and video post production services. The turnaround time is 1-3 business days.
Verdict: Unlike Styldod, WeEdit.Photos is a far more universal service. Its dedicated team of experienced retouchers will expertly enhance your real estate or other images within 24 hours while adhering to your visual style and providing top-tier results.
This service is also highly praised for its 24/7 customer support. Should you have any inquiries about the prices, your project, turnaround, or other parts of their editing services, you can contact their representatives whenever such a need arises.
Verdict: roOomy offers virtual staging and virtual tours. In contrast to Styldod, they also provide a broad range of design styles, giving you all the freedom you need to receive personalized designs.
This agency doesn’t offer as many services as Styldod. As for pricing, their website price list hasn’t been updated since 2021. Their services are also more expensive compared to Styldod.
Verdict: This agency was launched to create websites for photographers before expanding its service list to include editing and staging. PhotoUp is mainly aimed at business promotion and can be a great fit for everyone from real estate agents to photographers.
Unlike Styldod, PhotoUp is far easier to communicate with. They provide phone, email, and live chat support, which is included in all their service packages.
Verdict: PadStyler provides a long list of staging services, including digital furniture replacement, virtual kitchen design, digital landscaping, digital renovations, and 3D floor plans.
This agency collaborates with homeowners, realtors, construction companies, and landlords from all around the globe. The biggest benefit of PadStyler is its delivery time – it guarantees order completion and standard delivery within 1-2 days. They also offer an urgent delivery option that ensures your project will be completed in 6-12 hours.
Verdict: BoxBrownie excels at providing editing, virtual staging, floor plan redrawing, virtual renovation, and rendering. Similar to other services like Styldod, the company is open to cooperating with realtors, brokers, and architecture firms.
Their 360° virtual staging service will send you back starting from $48 per photo. BoxBrownie guarantees a 24-hour turnaround (48 hours for virtual staging), provides a free trial, and lets you request several revisions.
Verdict: Barion Design’s primary area of expertise is providing high-end home staging services. It employs an experienced team of house staging experts and proficient graphic designers who are capable of working with all kinds of properties from compact apartments to luxury mansions.
It should be noted that Barion Design’s services are significantly more expensive than those offered by Styldod and they also take a long time to complete your project, as you’ll receive the final images within 10 business days.
Verdict: The agency adheres to your requirements while deleting or adding furniture to your property images and providing the option to redesign and recolor walls, cabinets, floors, fixtures, and other elements.
Akin to Styldod, VirtualStagingSolutions enables you to pick a premade furniture set from its asset collection while customizing its size, color, and layout. If you want to order their virtual staging with the option to add digital furniture, expect to pay $75 per image while enjoying a 24-hour turnaround.
Verdict: VirtualStagingLab employs professional designers who are ready to create the perfect interior for your property. This agency provides 24/7 customer support and a non-committal free consultation that will help you decide if you’re interested in its services.
Unlike Styldod, VirtualStagingLab doesn’t offer discounts for bulk orders. That said, it does provide attractive promotions like 30% off on your first order and 20% off for your next order.
Verdict: By offering a turnaround time of only 24 hours, Stuccco has established itself as one of the quickest agencies on the market. Its services are provided by qualified designers.
Additionally, it provides a digital interior design service that allows you to implement your virtually staged designs. In contrast to Styldod, Stuccco’s services can be accessed by getting an annual subscription for $199.
