Lumavo · Aerial Studio
Pins and Lot Lines on Aerial Photos
That Place Themselves
Label the schools, parks, shops and water around a listing with real measured distances — positioned from the drone’s own camera data, not dragged into place by eye. Draw the lot boundary while you are there. $1 a photo, no subscription.
It works on your finished photo
Here is the catch nobody mentions until you hit it. Merging an HDR bracket throws away the drone’s GPS position and camera angle — they do not survive into the file you deliver. So any annotation tool that reads the photo you hand it has nothing to read once that photo has been processed, and you are back to placing labels by eye on the only version of the picture you would actually send a client.
Lumavo captures the camera position at upload, from the original frames, and keeps it attached to the shoot. Your delivered, enhanced, full-quality photo opens with the pins placing themselves — nothing to pair, nothing to dig out of a card you already formatted. A photo straight off the drone works on its own too, JPG or RAW.
What you get on the photo
Everything below is drawing and geometry. There is no AI anywhere in it, which is why the buildings underneath come back exactly as you shot them.
Placed by the camera, not by eye
The drone recorded where it was, which way it was pointing, how high it was and what lens it used. That is enough to work out exactly where any place on the ground falls in the frame — so the pins land on the right buildings instead of being dragged into position and eyeballed.
Real measured distances
"Riverside Elementary, 0.4 mi." Measured straight-line from the drone, not typed in by hand. Any distance can be hidden — on a shot framed for one building, a place two doors down is visibly two doors down and the number is only width.
Lot lines that read on any photo
Trace the boundary and the shading dims everything outside it, so the lot is the brightest thing in the picture. An outline in a bright colour vanishes over a dark tree line; dimming the rest never does. A slider sets how strong.
Fix what Google got wrong
Names come from Google Maps, which is often out of date about a neighbourhood you shoot every week — closed businesses, old names, the wrong one of two. Click any name to rewrite it, or search a building by name and have it placed properly.
One pin corrects the whole set
If everything sits slightly off the buildings, drag one pin onto where it belongs and every other pin corrects with it, because they all share the same camera. Fixing one fixes the set — or move just that one, if that is what you meant.
A dollar, not a subscription
$1 for the finished full-resolution photo — pins, lot line, your logo, any combination, one price. Nothing monthly, no credit budget to spend down or run out of. Building and previewing are free, and your first annotated photo is on us.
Then it goes where the rest of the shoot goes
The annotated aerial saves back onto the shoot it came from, as a version of that photo sitting beside the original. From there it travels with everything else — the download, the ZIP, the listing, the marketing kit and the delivery to your agent. The clean photograph is untouched, and nothing is overwritten. Or just download the file; it is the same photograph either way, and it is charged once.
Questions
How do you add pins and labels to a drone photo for a real estate listing?
Open the photo in Lumavo's Aerial Studio and tick the places you want. It reads the drone's recorded position, heading, height and lens, works out which nearby places actually fall inside that frame, and puts a labelled chip at each one with the distance measured from the drone — "Riverside Elementary, 0.4 mi". You can rewrite any name, drag any pin, search for a building by name, and hide a distance you would rather not print. The alternative is placing each label by hand in Photoshop against Google Maps, or sending the photo to an editing service and waiting.
Can pins be placed automatically on an edited or HDR-merged aerial photo?
Yes, on Lumavo. This is the part that usually fails elsewhere: HDR merging strips the drone's GPS position and camera angle out of the finished file, so any tool that reads the photo you hand it has nothing left to read on a delivered photo. Lumavo captures the camera position at upload, from the original frames, and keeps it — so your finished, full-quality, enhanced photo opens with the pins placing themselves. A photo straight off the card works on its own. For an older delivered photo from before that capture existed, drop it together with any single frame from the original bracket set.
Can I draw property boundary or lot lines on an aerial photo?
Yes. Click along the boundary corner by corner and close it. The shading dims everything OUTSIDE the line, so the lot is the brightest thing in the frame rather than being outlined in a colour that disappears over a dark tree line — and a slider sets how strongly. Corners can be dragged afterwards, and edges can be labelled with their lengths. For land, acreage and new-construction listings this replaces a round trip to a designer.
How much does it cost to put pins on an aerial photo?
$1 per finished photo, whether it carries pins, a lot line, a branded marker or all three. There is no subscription and no monthly credit allowance, so an unused month costs nothing and a heavy month cannot run out. Building and previewing are always free, you are only charged for the full-resolution result, and every account's first annotated photo is free.
Are the distances on the pins accurate?
They are real measurements, straight-line from the drone to the place — not driving or walking distance, and they should never be presented as travel times. Place names and locations come from Google Maps, which is often out of date about a neighbourhood the photographer knows, so every name can be rewritten and every pin moved before the photo goes out.