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Upload a set of brackets and see your first HDR edits in minutes.

Try it with your own shoot.

What a result looks like

Step-by-step guide with video: upload your brackets, pick your editing style, review and deliver natural HDR real estate photos with Stager AI.

How to Edit HDR Real Estate Photos | Stager AI Academy

HDR photo editing

Log in to open the HDR editor. Pick a listing from the selector at the top right, or create a new one. Every shoot lives inside its listing.

Open or create a listing

In the Add Photos menu, choose Unedited Photos. This is the HDR flow. Already Edited Photos skips HDR and is meant for staging only.

Choose Unedited Photos

Drop your single exposures or brackets onto the upload area. RAW files from all major cameras work, as well as JPG, PNG, HEIC and TIFF. Keep the page open while the files upload.

Upload your exposures

With Merge Multi-Exposure Photos (HDR) on, brackets are grouped into scenes. By default they're grouped by capture time. You can also use automatic grouping, a fixed bracket size of 3, 5 or 7, or group them by hand. Drag one bracket onto another to merge scenes, or split a group with Edit.

Check how your brackets are grouped

In the sidebar, choose an editing style. Stager Classic V2 is the newest. Then switch on what you need: perspective and lens correction, photographer and camera removal, sky replacement, fire in fireplace, TV blackout, auto privacy and blur license plates. Your choices are remembered for next time.

Pick your editing style and options

Click Enhance Now and confirm. Processing usually takes about 1 to 3 minutes. Each photo shows its progress as it merges exposures, corrects lines, edits details and applies your style.

Enhance

Hold a photo to compare it with the original. Open Review Images to fine-tune: adjust exposure, color and the window pull in Basic Edits, or retouch, stage and remove objects in the other tabs. Want a different result? Use Reprocess Enhancement with new settings.

Review and fine-tune

Download the photos you selected, or add them to your delivery and download or share them in one go. Choose the resolution, including super high resolution for print, and PNG or JPEG.

Download or deliver

How to edit HDR photos, step by step

Upload your brackets, pick a style and deliver natural HDR edits.

Brackets that line up perfectly merge cleanly. If the camera moves between shots, the merge can fail.

Shoot from a tripod

Capture all exposures of a room back to back. Grouping by capture time relies on the gap between scenes.

Shoot each scene in one go

Connect Dropbox in your account. Each subfolder you upload is edited automatically 10 minutes after the last file arrives.

Automate whole shoots with Dropbox

In Basic Edits, start from a profile like Airy, Crisp, Golden or Deep, or create your own and reuse it.

Start from a profile

HDR photo editing: from brackets to listing-ready photos

See how AI HDR editing works

Upload 2 to 4 photos of one room and see matching staging in minutes.

Stage your first room from every angle.

Same furniture, every angle

Step-by-step guide with video: stage 2 to 4 photos of one room with matching furniture in every angle using Stager AI Multi-Angle Staging.

How to Stage a Room from Multiple Angles | Stager AI Academy

Multi-angle virtual staging

Log in and choose Multi-Angle Staging from your tools. You'll see the heading "Same room, every angle".

Open Multi-Angle Staging

Upload photos of one room taken from different corners, or select them from your library. You need at least 2 and can add up to 4.

Add 2 to 4 angles of the same room

In the panel on the right, choose the room type, such as living room, bedroom or kitchen, and a style like Scandinavian, Japandi or Luxury. You can also pick colors.

Pick the room type and style

If the room is already furnished, tick the box to replace the existing furniture.

Replace furniture if needed

Click the Stage button, for example "Stage 3 angles". Staging takes about a minute per angle, and each angle shows its own progress.

Stage every angle

Each run creates a new set with the same furniture in every angle. Use Hold to compare to see the original, and switch between Originals, Set 1, Set 2 and so on. With Keep angles in sync on, all angles change together.

Compare and switch sets

Use the download icon on each angle to save it.

Download your photos

How to stage several angles, step by step

Stage 2 to 4 angles of one room with the same furniture.

Angles that show the room from clearly different positions make the most useful gallery.

Shoot from different corners

A wall, window or floor that appears in several photos helps the AI place the furniture consistently.

Keep something in common

Every photo in a set must show the same room. For a different room, start a new set.

One room per set

Many portals ask you to mark virtually staged photos. You can add a "Virtually Staged" disclaimer when you download.

Label staged photos

Multi-angle virtual staging: matching furniture in every photo

How Multi-Angle Staging works

Upload a photo and describe one change. You'll see the result in seconds.

Try your first instruction.

One photo, two instructions

Step-by-step guide with video: describe a change in plain words and the Stager AI Photo Retoucher edits your real estate photo in seconds.

How to Retouch Photos with AI | Stager AI Academy

AI photo retouching

Log in and open AI Photo Retoucher from your tools. You can also jump in from a staged photo with the Retouch button.

Open the AI Photo Retoucher

Upload a photo from your computer, or select one from your library. RAW, JPG and PNG are supported.

Upload one photo

Type what you want in Custom Instructions. Be specific: say what to change and where. For example, "replace the bed with a modern one" or "remove the cardboard box on the floor".

Describe the change

Use the AI model picker: Fast Editing for quick tests, Medium Quality for most photos (the default) or High Quality for your final version.

Choose the quality

Click Edit Photo Now. Most edits take 10 to 20 seconds. Compare the result with the slider, then choose Accept Render or Discard Render.

Edit and review

Every version appears in the strip under the photo. Select any version to edit it further, or return to the original. When you edit a render, you choose whether to use that render or the original.

Keep going, or go back

Select the version you like and click Download Render. Choose the resolution and format in the export window.

Download

How to retouch a photo, step by step

Describe a change in your own words and let the AI edit the photo.

Name the object and where it is: "the lamp on the left side table", not just "the lamp".

Be specific

Short, single instructions work better than long lists. Chain them, one version at a time.

One change at a time

Try ideas with Fast Editing, then run your final instruction with High Quality.

Test fast, finish in high quality

Retouch to show the property at its best, not to hide defects. Label virtually changed photos where your portal asks for it.

Keep it honest

AI photo retouching: edit photos with plain-word instructions

How the AI Photo Retoucher works

Step-by-step guides with a video for every tool. Go from your first upload to listing-ready photos faster, with tips from the people who build Stager AI.

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