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That $100 virtual staging software I tried last quarter
Tbh I was skeptical about virtual staging since I mostly do empty house listings. But I spent $100 on a month subscription to a higher end virtual staging software after a cheap $30 one made the furniture look like a video game. The colors were off and shadows were totally wrong on the cheap version, made the place look weird. The $100 one had real furniture renders and better lighting tools, saved me on a vacant property where the seller refused to buy real furniture. Have any of you tried cheaper options that actually looked natural or is it always a gamble?
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quinn34117h ago
Wait, @caleb_bell5 are you saying the cheap software actually had realistic lighting? Cause my experience with the budget ones was the total opposite, everything looked flat and fake no matter how much I tweaked the sliders. I mean, maybe it's just me, but I think the problem is those cheaper programs are using basic preset lighting instead of actually calculating how light bounces off walls and floors. The $100 one I used had a feature where you could adjust the time of day and it would shift the shadows naturally, which made a huge difference for showing off the room's actual depth. Idk, I feel like if you're doing a lot of empty listings, the extra money is worth it just for not having to explain to clients why the virtual couch looks like a cardboard cutout.
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caleb_bell523h ago
Man I had that exact same problem with the cheap stuff, the lighting was just awful!
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It's not just the bulbs though, people forget that the color of your walls can completely screw with how a cheap fixture spreads light around the room.
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