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I did exactly the opposite with https://prontopic.com https://prontopic.com
by raffa667 8mo ago
I did exactly the opposite with https://prontopic.com https://prontopic.com
- willguest 8mo agothanks for helping people to lie
- netsharc 8mo agoGeez, I'm reminded of a business student's idea of "Uber for photoshoppers" (this is ~20 years ago): you upload your picture, you say what you want changed, and I guess you pick which photoshopper's work looks convincing from a marketplace of them... He had a website, and the sample pic is a girl lying on her back, and in the "after" picture she's wearing a bigger cup-size..
- raffa667 8mo agoThis is intentionally much narrower: no custom requests, no creative edits. It only does technical corrections that photographers already apply (lighting, white balance, perspective, sharpness). Think more automated Lightroom than crowdsourced Photoshop.
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- raffa667 8mo agoI don’t see it as lying any more than adjusting exposure or white balance on a camera does. It doesn’t add or remove anything from the scene, it just fixes bad lighting, color cast, perspective, and sharpness, basically what any decent photographer already does in post. If anything, it helps photos reflect how the place actually looks in real life instead of dark, crooked, yellowish snapshots.
- wateralien 8mo agoWorks great. I hate it.
- wateralien 8mo agoJust kidding. I bet you will do very well marketing it to estate agents and AirBnb renters. It's just the "prettification" of the world which gets to me. I hate Instagram for the same reason. Just grumpy me.
- raffa667 8mo agoTotally get the concern, and I actually agree on the “Instagram-ification” problem. What ProntoPic does is basically what a professional real estate photographer already does in Lightroom: fix lighting, white balance, perspective, and sharpness. No adding pools, no changing furniture, no fake sunsets, no staging things that aren’t there. My girlfriend is an interior designer, so I see firsthand how much effort goes into making spaces look 100% accurate but well presented. The goal isn’t to misrepresent reality, just to make photos look like they were taken properly. In practice this mostly helps small hosts and agents who don’t have the budget or time for professional shoots. Right now they’re uploading dark, crooked, yellowish photos that actively hurt bookings (like the ones in the hp, real examples). I guess I need to make it clearer in the site. Thank you for the feedback!
- wateralien 8mo agoYeah that's fair enough. I've rented out my apartment on Airbnb and good photos are the key. I paid a real life photographer back in the day. As long as it doesn't change, clean or improve what's actually there in the apartment, and just makes you a better photographer I think that's fine. Good luck with it.
- wateralien 8mo agoI actually just recommended your app to my friend. Lol.