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Getting Started
What is Lumavo?
Everything a real estate photographer needs, beautifully integrated into one platform. Instead of stitching together a delivery gallery, an HDR editor, a booking page, an invoicing app, and a handful of AI services, Lumavo took the best of each and rebuilt it — better — in one place: online booking and scheduling, in-browser AI editing (HDR, twilight, virtual staging, sky replacement, object removal, and a full editing suite), branded client delivery portals, listing websites, marketing, Stripe invoicing, and a CRM. One login replaces Aryeo, Lightroom, and several other subscriptions.
Is Lumavo free to start?
Your first shoot is free — up to 50 photos, full quality, no watermark, no credit card required, and fully deliverable to a real agent. Create an account and run a real shoot through the whole platform: edit it, deliver a branded gallery, experience everything before you pick a plan. It's a real conversion moment, not a perpetual free tier. After your free shoot you pick a plan: Lumavo Flex ($0.50 per AI-edited photo with the whole platform included, plus a $5 listing fee that the first ten edited photos on that listing consume) or Lumavo Pro ($29/listing with editing included).
How long does setup take?
Most photographers are fully set up in under 5 minutes. You create an account, set your services and pricing, and share your booking link with clients. No developer, no custom domain required on day one.
I'm switching from another platform — will I have to rebuild everything?
No — moving to Lumavo takes minutes, not days. Connect Aryeo with your own API key and Lumavo Bridge brings across four things: your agent roster as contacts, your listings with their agents attached, your order history (shoot date, line items, totals, paid status), and — the part no other migration offers — your actual full-resolution photos, re-hosted and published into the gallery. Every competitor that advertises 'transfer your Aryeo listings' means the metadata; your delivered galleries stay behind. Non-Aryeo platforms (HDPhotoHub, Spiro, Rela and others) import contacts and listings via CSV. And you can rebuild your entire pricing menu by uploading a screenshot or PDF of your current pricing page: Lumavo reads your packages, variants, prices, and descriptions and recreates them, fully editable before you save. No re-typing every service by hand.
Will importing from Aryeo mess up my dashboard or duplicate anything?
No. The import is idempotent and resumable — it skips any listing that already has photos, so re-running it picks up where it stopped and can never overwrite work you've done. Imported orders arrive as history (delivered or cancelled, or scheduled only if the shoot is genuinely still upcoming), so finished shoots never land in New Bookings or get flagged as missing photos. Contacts are deduped by email against the contacts you already have. Your Aryeo key is never stored — it stays in your browser for the duration of the import.
Do I need to be technical to use Lumavo?
No. Lumavo is designed for photographers, not developers. If you can use Instagram, you can use Lumavo. The biggest tech requirement is connecting a Stripe account for payments, which takes about 3 minutes.
Who's behind Lumavo, and who answers support?
Lumavo was built by Jeremy Jordan, a real estate photographer with 16+ years behind the camera, after years of fighting tools that weren't designed for working photographers. Support isn't outsourced to a queue — every email, text, and message comes straight to the founder, who answers personally. You can read the full story on our About page.
Can Lumavo help me set up my account directly?
Yes. With your account, authorized Lumavo staff can start a secure 'support session' to view your dashboard exactly as you see it and help fix setup, pricing, or upload issues live. Every support session is logged, your clients' personal contact details are masked during it, and irreversible actions (sending client emails, deletions, charges) are blocked. It's the fastest way to get unstuck.
AI Editing & Aura Studio
How does Lumavo's AI HDR enhancement work?
Upload your bracketed exposures (typically -2EV, 0EV, +2EV) and Lumavo automatically merges them into a perfectly balanced HDR image — pulled window detail, natural shadow recovery, corrected verticals. The result is delivered in MLS-ready, web, and print sizes. On Lumavo Pro, HDR editing is included (the first 70 photos per listing; $0.50/photo beyond that). On Lumavo Flex it's $0.50 per edited image, plus a $5 listing fee that your first ten edited photos on that listing consume. There are no credits anywhere in Lumavo — you're never buying bundles.
What is Aura Studio?
Aura Studio is Lumavo's built-in full-screen photo editor. It's a Canvas-based pixel editor — not CSS filters — so adjustments are real changes to the actual image data, exactly like Lightroom. It includes 12 sliders (Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Temperature, Tint, Saturation, Vibrance, Sharpness, and Clarity), a live RGB histogram, rotation and flip, named presets you can save and reuse, batch apply across a whole shoot, and persistent adjustments that save automatically. You can also do Before/After comparison, annotate photos, and export in MLS/web/print sizes without leaving the browser. The full AI editing suite — twilight, staging, Director, and the AI tools — lives in Aura Studio too.
Can Lumavo replace Lightroom for real estate work?
For real estate photography specifically — yes. The AI handles HDR, sky, window pull, and vertical correction automatically. Aura Studio handles everything a real estate photographer typically goes back to Lightroom for: exposure corrections, white balance, clarity, cropping, and presets. The things Lightroom does for portrait or wildlife photographers (masking, complex retouching) are not the focus here.
What AI tools are included?
Every plan can use the full AI suite: HDR bracket merge and enhancement, twilight conversion, virtual room staging, Director AI edits, declutter, repaint, lawn/grass greening, canvas extend, and remove object — plus the full in-browser Aura Studio editor. Grass greening, Fireplace Fire, and sky replacement are free on every plan — they run through the enhancement pass at no extra cost to us. Object removal is free and unlimited. AI photo edits — Auto-Fill, Repaint, Remove Reflection and TV Screen Fill — are $0.15 each; Director $0.50, Canvas Extend $0.25; Declutter $1.00; twilight, staging and multi-angle staging $2 each (stage a room once, then match every other angle of it — the same furniture in the same places from every camera position). On Lumavo Pro, each listing includes full HDR editing (first 70 photos) plus 2 twilights and 2 stagings; Smart Retouch and anything beyond your allowance is pay-as-you-go. On Lumavo Flex, twilight, staging, and reels are billed per use.
Do I have to sit and wait while an AI edit renders?
Start a twilight, a staging, a Director edit or any one-click tool and it hands you straight back to the shoot, where a placeholder appears on that photo with what you asked for written on it — 'Twilight · Blue Hour', 'Staged · Modern'. Carry on working, or start another one on a different photo. When the render lands it fills that tile and saves itself as a version of that photo, sitting alongside the original. There is nothing to keep and nothing to discard: you're charged once for that tool on that photo, when you ask for it, and every regeneration after that is free — so if the sky isn't right you simply run it again. Close the tab mid-render and you don't lose the picture either; it still turns up in that photo's versions.
Where do all my edits go? Can they get lost?
Every version of a photo lives together on the shoot, expanded by default, each labeled with what was done to it — Twilight, Staged, Object removed, Lawn, Adjusted. Nothing is hidden behind a menu and nothing replaces your original: an AI edit is always saved as a variant beside the photo it came from, so the untouched original is still there. At export, every version is its own selectable tile, so you can deliver the staged version, the original, or both.
Can Lumavo stage the same room from multiple angles with the same furniture?
Yes, and this is the part most AI staging gets wrong. Living, family, dining and rec rooms are almost always shot from several angles, and staging each photo independently gives you a different sofa in every shot — which reads as obviously fake across a listing. In Lumavo you stage one angle, then open another photo of that room and pick it from 'Same room, different angle?'. The same sofa, rug, lamps and art carry across, arranged for the new camera position. It also works sequentially — stage the hero shot today, match another angle days later when the agent asks — where most tools that attempt this need every angle staged in one batch. The room itself never changes: walls, woodwork, flooring, windows, the camera angle and every existing light fixture stay exactly as photographed. To be precise about what it does: it reproduces the same furniture set from each new viewpoint, not an identical 3D scene reprojected pixel-for-pixel.
Can I use Lumavo just for virtual staging if my photos are already edited?
Yes. When you create a shoot, choose 'Upload your edited photos' instead of 'Use Lumavo editing'. Your finished JPEGs skip HDR processing entirely, so there's no per-photo editing charge; on Flex you pay the $5 listing fee, in full, because the first ten edited photos are what consume it and this path has none — you're using the booking, delivery and CRM side without the editing side. They land straight in the shoot ready for staging, twilight, or any other AI tool. That makes Lumavo usable purely as a staging or twilight service if your editing already happens somewhere else, and it means a photographer can offer staging as an add-on without changing anything about how they edit.
Will virtual staging change the room itself?
No. Staging adds furniture and decor and nothing else. The walls, woodwork, trim, flooring, ceiling, windows and the view through them, the camera angle and framing, and every existing light fixture are preserved exactly as photographed — a chandelier or pendant is never swapped for a different one, and a window is never added to a blank wall. If something does come back wrong, the edit is saved as a variant next to your original, so the original photo is never overwritten.
Can I draw lot lines or property boundaries on an aerial photo?
Yes — that lives in Aerial Studio (the Lot Lines & Pins tile in the editor opens it with your photo already loaded). Click along the boundary to trace the lot line, drag any corner to nudge it, and the shading dims everything OUTSIDE the line so the property is the brightest thing in the frame — a slider sets how strongly, because what reads over snow disappears over a dark tree line. Add labeled pins for features — 'Barn', 'Creek', 'Proposed dock' — anywhere on the photo. There's no AI involved in any of it. Building and previewing are free; the finished full-resolution photo is $1 — one price whatever it carries — and your first annotated photo is free. Save it back to the shoot, download it, or both: it's the same photograph and it's charged once. For land, acreage, and new-construction listings this replaces a round trip to a designer.
Can Lumavo label an aerial photo with nearby schools, parks, and landmarks?
Yes — Aerial Studio does it automatically. Drop a drone photo — or pick a finished one straight from your shoots — and it reads the drone's recorded position, heading, height, and lens, works out where each nearby place actually falls in your frame, and puts a labeled chip there with the distance measured from the drone. Schools, parks, dining, shops, transit, and landmarks are listed for you, and you can search any building by name if Google files it under an unhelpful category. Everything is editable: rewrite any name, drag any pin, and tap a distance to keep it off the photo. Drag one pin onto where it belongs and every other pin corrects with it, because they all share the same camera. You can also trace the lot boundary, which shades everything outside the line so the property is the brightest thing in the frame. When the photo came from one of your shoots, the finished version saves back onto that shoot beside the original, so it reaches the download, the ZIP, the listing, the marketing kit and your agent along with everything else. Building and previewing are free; the finished full-resolution photo is $1, charged once whether you save it, download it or both — and your first annotated photo is free.
How do I get Aerial Studio to place the pins for me?
The easiest way: pick the photo from one of your shoots, inside Aerial Studio. On every shoot uploaded since camera capture went live, Lumavo keeps the drone's position and camera angle at the moment you upload — the only moment it exists, since HDR processing strips it out of the merged file — so your finished, full-quality photo opens with the pins placing themselves. Nothing to pair, nothing to find. A photo straight off the card also works on its own (the JPG or the RAW — everything needed is inside it). For an older delivered photo from before capture went live, drop it together with any ONE of the original bracket frames from that same shot and you get both: your finished photo, with the pins placing themselves. And a photo with no position data at all is still usable — you place the pins by hand and the distances are still measured. Two things worth knowing before a photo goes to a client: distances are straight-line from the drone rather than driving distance, and place names come from Google Maps, which is often out of date about a neighbourhood you know.
Did Lumavo build its own AI model?
No, and we won't claim otherwise. Lumavo does not train or operate AI models. The editing runs on leading third-party models accessed through their APIs — a specialist real-estate enhancement provider for HDR, frontier image models for twilight, staging, object removal, and outpainting, frontier video models for cinematic motion, and frontier language models for text. What Lumavo builds is everything around them: the prompt and constraint design that keeps a room structurally intact, the native-resolution pipeline, and the integration into booking, delivery, and billing. Worth knowing too — several things that look like AI deliberately aren't: the Marketing Kit renders deterministically, the captions and email blast are designed templates, and Lot Lines & Pins is plain browser drawing.
Can I re-run a photo if I don't like the AI result?
Yes — every AI result can be re-run with one click at no extra charge. If an enhancement doesn't look right, hit Re-run. Lumavo doesn't charge again for re-runs.
Booking & Studio
How does the booking system work?
You get a branded booking storefront at lumavo.ai/book/your-handle. You set your services, pricing, availability, and package options. Clients pick a date that works with your calendar, fill in property details, and pay. You get notified, the shoot appears in your dashboard, and a Dropbox folder is created automatically with the shoot name.
How do clients pay?
Through your own Stripe account, which you connect once. Every payment — card, Apple Pay, Link, or bank transfer (ACH) — goes directly to you. Lumavo never holds your funds and takes no cut of client payments; Lumavo's revenue is your plan, not a percentage of what your clients pay.
Does Lumavo handle sales tax?
Optionally, and it stays off until you turn it on. When enabled, Lumavo uses Stripe Tax to automatically calculate the correct sales-tax rate for the states you're registered in — the same approach HDPhotoHub and Aryeo use. You remain the merchant of record and file and remit your own tax; Lumavo never collects or holds tax money. If you don't charge sales tax, you never see any of it.
Can clients pay by bank transfer, on terms, or automatically?
Yes. You can enable ACH bank payments for larger invoices (ideal for builders and brokerages), send Net-15/30/60 invoices with payment terms, and save a client's card on file to auto-charge on delivery so you never chase a payment. All optional, all settling to your own Stripe.
Does Lumavo sync with my accounting software?
Yes — connect QuickBooks and your paid orders post automatically as paid sales, so you and your accountant never reconcile by hand. Xero and other systems are on the same connector and coming next.
Can I import photos straight from Dropbox?
Yes. On the upload screen, choose your photos in Dropbox's own picker and Lumavo pulls them in, automatically groups the HDR brackets, and processes them — no re-uploading files you already have in the cloud.
Can Lumavo make listing videos?
Yes, two ways. Motion Studio turns your listing photos into a cinematic listing video — choose Classic motion (Ken Burns pans and zooms, free and never charged), AI Motion at 1920×1080, or AI 4K at 3840×2160. Both vertical (9:16) and horizontal (16:9) are generated from the same order by default, so one purchase covers MLS, YouTube, and social. Three to forty photos, a pace you set between 2 and 5 seconds a shot (roughly 9 seconds to 3 minutes), an address title card, an optional agent end card, an optional logo watermark, and music from the library or your own upload. Photos are auto-sequenced into a sensible room order that you can override by dragging. For photographers it's $1.50 per photo standard and $5.00 per photo for 4K. Video Studio is the other route — cut your own aerial, phone, and DSLR clips on a browser timeline with transitions, speed, and music. Agents can order a reel on a listing you delivered and pay you directly, and anyone can buy one with no account at all at $2 per photo. The motion is generated by third-party frontier video models; Lumavo does not train video models.
What is Lumavo Snap?
Snap is a guided way for an agent to shoot a listing on their own phone and get a finished result — Lumavo walks them room by room with pro tips (shoot in landscape, use the 0.5x lens, keep verticals straight), then automatically enhances every photo and builds a property page, a video, and a marketing kit. It's designed for the small or lower-budget listings an agent would never book a full photographer for. Snap uses the same neutral AI correction as a professional shoot — it improves the photos, it never fabricates or alters the property. The first Snap is free; additional sessions are a flat per-session fee. Snap runs on your phone and can be added to your home screen as its own app.
Can Lumavo market my listings for me?
Yes — every delivered listing gets a Marketing Kit automatically. In print, at 300 DPI as PDF or PNG: a flyer in six genuinely different designed layouts (Folio, editorial; Marquee, cinematic full-bleed; Vitrine, photo grid; Atelier, magazine asymmetric; Locale, which fills in nearby schools, dining, and parks automatically; and Classic, an MLS-style handout), plus a 6×4 postcard, a photo feature sheet, a four-page brochure, and a 6×24 sign rider. Digitally: Instagram square, Facebook 4:5, and 9:16 Story and TikTok sizes in four visual styles, with ready-to-post Instagram and Facebook captions, a full HTML email blast, and a QR code for the yard sign that points at the property site or any URL you choose, with your own caption under it. Every piece re-cuts across five campaigns — Just Listed, Just Sold, Open House, Coming Soon, Price Improved — and 'Download everything' exports the whole set in one click. A full-screen Customize workspace puts the live preview beside the photo picker. All branded to you; your agents get their own kit too, and you can optionally resell yours at your own price. The kit renders deterministically — the only AI in it is an optional 'write it with AI' button for the listing description.
Does Lumavo have a client portal?
Yes. Every shoot gets a branded portal at a unique link. Clients and agents can view and download photos in MLS, web, and print sizes. They can also request enhancements directly from the portal, social sharing links are included, and you can enable payment-gated download so photos aren't accessible until the invoice is paid.
Can clients reschedule through the portal?
Yes. Clients can submit a reschedule request directly from their portal. The request arrives as an in-app notification and email to you — you decide whether to accept and set the new date.
Does Lumavo sync with my calendar?
Yes. Connect Google Calendar once for instant two-way sync — Lumavo pushes every confirmed booking automatically and stays in sync as you schedule, reschedule, or cancel, and can optionally import your Google events as blocked time so clients can't book you when you're busy. Prefer Apple Calendar or Outlook? Subscribe with one tap and your shoots flow in automatically. Set it up in Settings → Account → Integrations.
Running Your Business
What is Pulse?
Pulse is your daily command center — the first thing you open each morning. Instead of a wall of charts, it reads your whole business and tells you, in plain language, how today looks, what needs your attention, what to do next, where your biggest opportunity is, and any risk to address (like an unpaid invoice or an open day on the calendar). It shows today's route, this week's schedule, and your key numbers at a glance — and it interprets them and recommends the next move, more like an experienced business advisor than a dashboard. You can even have a short morning briefing emailed to you each day.
Does Lumavo help me run the business, not just edit photos?
Yes — that's a big part of the point. Alongside editing and delivery you get Pulse (your daily command center), business reports (revenue over time, your top customers, your product mix, and a map of where you shoot), a finance view with net profit and your average days-to-get-paid, one-click CSV export for your accountant, and QuickBooks sync. It's the run-your-business side that delivery-only tools leave out.
Can Lumavo help me get paid faster?
Yes. You can turn on automatic, tactful payment reminders (off by default, with per-agent terms so a Net-30 client isn't nudged early), see exactly who owes you and your average days-to-get-paid, save a client's card on file to auto-charge on delivery, and offer ACH or Net terms for builders and brokerages — all settling directly to your own Stripe.
Who is Juno?
Juno is Lumavo's built-in AI assistant, available on every page. She knows the platform inside and out, so instead of hunting through help docs you can just ask — how to set up your booking page, what a client sees in their portal, how AI editing or billing works, or how Lumavo compares to another platform. She also answers questions from agents on your public booking page, so a client asking 'what happens after I book?' gets a real answer at 9pm without waiting on you. If you'd rather talk to a person, Juno hands you straight to the founder — and shows a green indicator when he's online for live chat.
Why is Juno's icon a fireweed?
Fireweed is Alaska's summer clock — it blooms from the bottom of the stalk upward, and when the top blossoms open, summer's over. It's also the first plant to come back after a burn. Juno is named partly for Juneau, as a nod to a family member, and the mark is a small tribute rather than a stock robot icon.
Pricing & Plans
How much does Lumavo cost?
Two plans plus a free first shoot. Lumavo Flex is $0.50 per AI-edited photo, with the full platform — booking, delivery, invoicing, CRM — included rather than billed on top, plus a $5 listing fee per delivered listing. The simplest way to hold it: the first ten edited photos consume the $5, and everything you spend on the listing counts toward it — editing, staging, twilight, and complimentary edits at their normal value. Six edited photos plus three stagings is $6, not $6 plus a fee. A listing you deliver without using Lumavo to edit at all is the full $5, because there are no edits to consume it — that's the platform itself, and it's what stops booking, delivery and CRM being free to someone who never edits. Never a double charge, no monthly commitment. Lumavo Pro is $29/listing and includes full HDR editing (first 70 photos per listing) plus 2 twilights and 2 stagings per listing, with automatic volume discounts to $23 and then $19/listing as you grow (annual is a prepaid bucket of 75+ listings at $19/listing flat). Your first shoot is free — up to 50 photos, full quality, no card required. See the full breakdown at lumavo.ai/pricing.
What is the $5 listing fee, and when do I pay it?
It's $5 per delivered listing, and the first ten AI-edited photos on that listing consume it — it is not a fee stacked on top of your editing. Everything you spend on the listing counts toward it: edited photos at $0.50 each, complimentary edits at the same value, and add-on work like staging or twilight. Ten edited photos clears it. So does six edits plus three stagings — that's $6 of work, so you pay $6, not $6 plus a fee. Past the $5 you're simply paying for the work. You only ever pay the $5 outright when you deliver a listing you didn't use Lumavo for at all — you brought finished photos and used the booking, delivery, portal and CRM side. We're straightforward about why that case is charged: without it, the whole platform could be used indefinitely for free, and that cost would land on the photographers who do use the editing. Your free first shoot is unaffected — complimentary edits consume the listing fee at their normal value, so delivering them costs nothing.
Are there per-listing fees?
No caps. On Lumavo Flex a delivered listing carries a $5 listing fee, consumed by the first ten edited photos, so past about ten you are paying for the work and nothing else — edit as many or as few as you want. On Lumavo Pro ($29/listing) you pay a flat rate per listing with no caps on bookings or deliveries. There are no credit bundles anywhere in Lumavo. The platform itself — booking, portals, invoicing, CRM — is always included.
What does Lumavo replace?
Aryeo or similar delivery platforms ($110–180/month), per-listing editing services ($20+/property), Lightroom for real estate corrections, Dropbox manual folder management, and scheduling tools. Full comparison at lumavo.ai/compare.
Is there a referral program?
Yes. Share your personal referral link, and when a photographer you refer makes their first purchase, you (on Pro) earn 2 free listing credits — and they never expire. Your link is in your dashboard.
Delivery & Portals
Does Lumavo do floor plans?
Yes, through CubiCasa, on a bring-your-own-account basis. You keep your own CubiCasa account and pay CubiCasa directly — Lumavo never resells floor plans and takes no cut. Once connected, you order a plan against a shoot and the finished plan is filed into that listing's delivery automatically, so it appears in the client's Floor Plans tab without you moving a file. You can also skip the connection entirely: scan in the CubiCasa app as usual and upload or paste the finished plan into the delivery by hand.
How do I connect CubiCasa, and where is my API key?
In Lumavo: Account → Integrations → Connect CubiCasa. It asks for the email on your CubiCasa account and your CubiCasa API key. To find the key, the direct link is app.cubi.casa/web/settings/company/developers. Otherwise, sign in to the CubiCasa web dashboard at app.cubi.casa on a computer — the key is not available in the mobile app — then in the left menu, under the GENERAL heading, click Company, open the Developer tab and copy the key shown under API Key. There is no Account or Settings item in that menu, which is where most people look first. Only CubiCasa account managers can see the Developer tab, so if it is missing you are signed in as a member rather than a manager. Lumavo checks the key against CubiCasa before saving it, so a typo fails immediately instead of silently three days later when a scan finishes.
Some MLS boards now require AI-edited photos to be labeled. Does Lumavo handle that?
Yes, optionally. RASM has required a disclosure label on digitally altered photos since 13 August 2026, ARMLS since 28 May, and NorthstarMLS publishes the same guidance — the direction is settled, only the dates differ. Turn on MLS AI Disclosure in Download Settings and every AI variant you export carries a small mark in the bottom-left corner, where the boards specify so it clears the MLS copyright, reading "Digitally Altered". Your straight photos are never marked — the boards explicitly exempt brightness, contrast, color correction, cropping and sharpening, which covers the HDR merge and the whole Develop panel, so labeling those would be false. It is off by default because most markets have no such rule yet.
Does the label change my saved photos?
No. It is composited onto the copy that gets downloaded, at the moment of export. The photo stored in your account is never touched, so you can turn the setting on or off per market without re-rendering anything, and turning it off returns every export to exactly what it was.
Those policies also require the unaltered original alongside the edit. Does Lumavo do that?
It already did, before any board asked. Every AI edit in Lumavo is a variant that sits beside its original rather than replacing it — a photo can carry a staging and a declutter and a twilight, and each needs the same untouched source. Exports name them so they sort next to each other, so an agent uploading a folder gets the pair adjacent without doing anything.
Will Lumavo stop me making an edit my MLS prohibits?
No, and that is deliberate. Some boards prohibit certain edits outright regardless of any label — repainting walls, changing a room's apparent size, adding views that are not visible from the property. But that is one board's rule, and blocking the tool would break photographers in markets where no such rule exists. Lumavo shows a note inside the affected tools instead, so you know to check your own board. The judgement stays yours.
Is the client portal branded with my studio name?
Yes. The portal shows your studio name, logo, and branding — not Lumavo's. Clients and agents see your brand throughout.
What file formats can I deliver?
Photos are available to clients in MLS-ready (1000px long edge), web-optimized (2000px), and print-quality (full resolution) JPEG. Videos and floor plans can also be attached to any delivery portal.
Does the client get told what's in a delivery?
Yes, in plain words rather than a file count. Before you export, Lumavo tells you exactly what you're about to hand over — '54 photographs · 3 virtually staged · 2 twilights · 2 objects removed' — counted from the files you actually selected, not from what the shoot happens to contain. When there's more than one kind of work in there, that same list ships inside the ZIP as CONTENTS.txt, so the person who opens it knows what they received without having to work it out from filenames.
Can agents download photos without me doing anything extra?
Yes. Once you mark a shoot as delivered, the agent gets an email with their portal link. They can download the photos themselves in their preferred format. You don't need to send files manually.
Can agents edit the photos I deliver?
Lightly, and only their own copy. Agents get a free in-browser Quick Edit — crop and straighten, plus brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and sharpening — and can download the result at up to 2048px. It saves to the agent's own copy and can never alter your original or the delivered gallery. There's no AI in it and no charge. It's on by default and you can switch it off per account in settings. Anything needing AI (virtual staging, twilight, object removal) isn't something they do themselves — they send you a request from their gallery, which lands in your queue. Separately, there's Agent Canvas: paid AI editing an agent can run themselves (twilight $3, virtual staging $5, declutter $3, touch-up $0.50). That one is OFF by default and only becomes available if you opt in, since enabling it means Lumavo charges your agents per edit.
Can agents request edits, staging, or a video?
Yes. From their delivery gallery an agent can flag a specific photo and request a touch-up (with a note or by drawing on it), virtual staging on an exact empty room, a twilight on an exact exterior, or a listing reel. It lands in your Enhancement Requests queue; you run it and the result replaces that photo everywhere, and you can choose to charge for these.
Comparisons
How does Lumavo compare to Fotello?
Fotello does one piece well — AI editing with human backup — but the business layer around it is thin. AI editing is increasingly table stakes; the harder thing is bringing the whole job together. Lumavo integrates booking, invoicing, delivery portals, Google Calendar sync, listing websites, marketing, and a full in-browser editor into one platform, each piece rebuilt to beat the standalone it replaces. Full comparison at lumavo.ai/vs/fotello.
How does Lumavo compare to Aryeo?
Aryeo is strong at delivery and galleries, but that's a slice of the job — you still bolt on editing, a booking page, and invoicing around it. Lumavo brings the whole workflow together in one login — booking, editing, delivery, invoicing, marketing, and listing sites — usually for less than Aryeo alone. Full comparison at lumavo.ai/vs/aryeo.
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