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FRESH IDEA TO DRESS UP OLD LISTING PHOTOS

Here's a useful utility that Kelly Willey of Marathon, Florida, found.

Not only can it be very useful for Realtors, but home inspectors could use it spruce up some pictures for their educational home inspection slide shows. Not every picture we take on the job site is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

Via Coco Plum Realtors: Florida Keys Real Estate:

 

I am having a lot of fun editing my photos with Picnik.com

 

Quality photographs that will capture someones attention are critical to your blog posts,web sites, MLS and on-line advertising.

 

I had some tired old photos on a vacation rental site that I wanted to refurbish without the time spent to go out and re-shoot the pictures so I put them into my picnik basket and......

 

This was turned into......

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A Fresh New View..

 

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This photo of the lobby was too dark and dreary and did not do the place justice....

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After Picnik....

 

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After Picnik it is fresh and new and "picture perfect" for the web. They have many different fonts you can choose from and any color under the rainbow.

 

 

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Adding borders and frames is a snap and you can choose ANY color to compliment the photo.

 

 

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Playing with the saturation will give you some really cool effects and make your photos pop....

 

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Or, if you are feeling funky try some of the quirky effects and make a really eye catching design....

 

Go check it out, have some fun, and freshen up those tired old photos you do not want to retake.

 

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Coco Plum Realtors is small family owned and operated real estate business in Marathon, Florida. They were founded on the principles of hard work and serving others first.

FLORIDA KEYS REAL ESTATE

Kelly Willey is the broker and began her real estate career in 1989 in Baltimore, Maryland and Long and Foster Realtors. She rose quickly to the top of her office and was the Rookie of the Year in 1989 with Coldwell Banker. Over the years she has earned numerous sales awards, sold millions and millions of dollars in real estate and attended a vast number of training programs. Kelly has specialized in working with many REO, short sale and foreclosure properties over the last 20 years. And, she holds the SRES, Seniors Real Estate Specialist designation for working with senior citizns and their special needs.

Kelly and her family have been very involved with Island Community Church and Island Christian school. Being involved as a youth leader with the teens sparked their interest in foreign missions. They have taken many trips to the Dominican Republic to serve the impoverished of that country and founded a non-profit corporation, Micah Missions, to raise money and awareness of that cause.

For all your real estate needs in Marathon, Duck Key, Key Colony Beach
and Grassy Key call Kelly Willey at 305-289-2212 or email her at MicahMissions@Gmail.com. We are always happy to help you with area attractions, local schools or the value of your Marathon, Florida Keys home.

We specialize in helping buyers find foreclosures, pre-foreclosures, short sales, bank owned and REO properties throughout the Florida Keys from Key Largo, Islamorada and Marathon, Key Colony and Duck Key to Big Pine and key West.

Vacation rentals are also available and we have a property management division if you have a need to rent your Florida Keys home.

 

 

 

5 commentsRussel Ray, San Diego home inspector • January 27 2009 03:10AM

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I have been hearing a ton about that website in the past 48 hours but had never heard of it before that.  I may have to look it up, although I sure don't need to learn a new photo editing software.

Posted by Robert W. May, Realtor/Mortgage Expert Lethbridge Mortgage & Real Estate Info (Canada First Mortgage/ Rainbow Realty) about 1 year ago

HI Russel!

 

This is great.  I will have to try it out.  I'm fairly good with photoshop and enjoy "playing" with photos, so this looks like fun!  Cheers!

Posted by Rick Sergison - Durham Region Real Estate Blog (Keller Williams Real Estate Associates in the Toronto Area) about 1 year ago

Hey, Robert.

This is one of the easier photo editing software I've used, certainly easier than Photoshop and Photo Paint, but it probably is not quite as robust as those two either.

Posted by Russel Ray, San Diego home inspector (Russel Ray, Property Consultant) about 1 year ago

Hey, Rick.

If you known Photoshop, this one should be fairly easy for you.

Posted by Russel Ray, San Diego home inspector (Russel Ray, Property Consultant) about 1 year ago

Your pictures look so much better after this make-over. Seems like a really nice tool. I think I ran into Picnic in FlickR when I was posting my pics. I could spend hours editing pictures! I recently wrote a post about how to take good photos of your vacation rental on my <a href="http://blog.rentalo.com/owners">blog for property owners</a> . Hope you like it!

Posted by Marta about 1 year ago

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