What is an exterior touch-up for real estate photos?

The set of small fixes a professional retoucher makes on an exterior before it goes on the MLS: a natural sky, a healthy lawn, a clean driveway and the everyday clutter removed. Pixly does all four in one pass for 1 credit and leaves the house exactly as shot.

How is this different from Sky Replacement and Lawn Replacement?

Those two each make one change, with styles to pick from. Exterior Touch-up looks at the whole photo and fixes only what is wrong in each area, including the driveway and the clutter. Use it when a photo has a bit of everything wrong; use the single tools when you want a particular sky or lawn.

Does it change the house or add anything?

No. The house, roof, walls, windows, doors, fences, gates, plants and trees stay exactly as they are, at the same exposure. Nothing is added — no plants, no furniture — and the framing of the photo does not change.

Can I keep the sky, or the car in the driveway?

Yes. Switch off Sky and the sky and its reflections stay as shot; switch off Clutter and every object stays where it is. The other fixes still run.

Do I need to disclose a touched-up photo on the MLS?

Treat it like any digitally edited listing photo. Most boards allow it when you label the image, for example “digitally enhanced”. The property itself is unchanged — only the sky, the grass, the surface of the drive and movable objects are edited.

How much does an exterior touch-up cost on Pixly?

1 credit per photo — the same as staging, enhance, sky or lawn replacement. Credits start on Starter at $5.99/wk. A photo that is not an exterior is refused before a credit is spent.

Exterior Touch-up

Exterior touch-up for real estate photos

Sky, lawn, driveway and clutter fixed in one pass, each only where the photo needs it. The house, the fences and the plants stay exactly as shot. Switch any fix off. 1 credit.

Touch up a photo See pricing

From $19.99/mo · cancel anytime · or start with Starter from $5.99/wk

Brick house under an overcast sky with a dead lawn, a stained driveway and bins by the garage sliding to the same photo with a blue sky, a green lawn, a clean driveway and the bins gone — before

As shotTouched up

What this edit includes

Four fixes, only where needed

A natural sky

A grey, white or blown-out sky becomes the blue a photographer would have had on a good day, with the reflections in the windows updated to match. A sky that is already good is left alone.

A healthy lawn

Dead, patchy or brown grass becomes an even green lawn with real texture. The lawn keeps its shape and its edges against the drive and the beds. Nothing that is not grass turns green.

A clean driveway and paths

Oil stains, tyre marks, moss, weeds in the joints, leaves and puddles go. The paving, concrete or gravel keeps its material, colour and pattern. Nothing is repaved.

The clutter, gone

Wheelie bins, hoses, cables, ladders, tools, toys, boxes and a stray car in the drive are removed and the wall or paving behind them continued. Fences, gates, sheds, lamps, planters and the for-sale sign stay.

How it works

Four taps. One credit.

01
Upload an exterior photo
Any listing exterior: a front, a back garden, a terrace. A photo that is not an exterior is refused before anything is charged.
02
Pick Exterior Touch-up
Same photo tool as Stage and Enhance. No prompt to write — the tool looks at the photo and decides what needs fixing.
03
Keep the four switches on, or not
Sky, Lawn, Driveway & paths and Clutter are all on. Switch one off to keep that part exactly as shot, for example the sky you like or the car in the drive.
04
Generate
One credit, about twenty seconds. The house, its roof, walls, windows, fences and plants come back exactly as shot.

Read the step-by-step guide

Before you upload

Which photos work best

Works best

Exteriors with a bit of everything wrong: a grey sky, a tired lawn, a stained drive, bins on show.
Fronts, back gardens and terraces.
Photos you want listing-ready in one pass, without picking styles.

Avoid

Interior photos. They are refused and you are not charged.
Gardens you want redesigned. Touch-up cleans up; it never adds plants, paving or furniture.

Stays the same

The house, roof, fences, gates, plants and framing come back exactly as shot. Switch off any fix to keep that part too.

More exteriors

Listing exteriors, before the retouch and after

Drag each slider. Every fix is applied only where the photo needed it; the building and the framing stay put.

Flat-roof modern · grey sky, dead lawn, weedy gravel and paving, bins, ladder and wheelbarrow — all fixed, the house untouched — before — Flat-roof modern · grey sky, dead lawn, weedy gravel and paving, bins, ladder and wheelbarrow — all fixed, the house untouched

Flat-roof modern · grey sky, dead lawn, weedy gravel and paving, bins, ladder and wheelbarrow — all fixed, the house untouched — after — Flat-roof modern · grey sky, dead lawn, weedy gravel and paving, bins, ladder and wheelbarrow — all fixed, the house untouched

Clapboard country house · overcast winter sky, straw lawn, stained concrete drive, bins and boxes by the garage — all fixed — before — Clapboard country house · overcast winter sky, straw lawn, stained concrete drive, bins and boxes by the garage — all fixed

Clapboard country house · overcast winter sky, straw lawn, stained concrete drive, bins and boxes by the garage — all fixed — after — Clapboard country house · overcast winter sky, straw lawn, stained concrete drive, bins and boxes by the garage — all fixed

FAQ

Exterior Touch-up FAQ

40+ tools

Related listing tools

When one thing is wrong, or you want a particular look, use the single tools.

Sky ReplacementPick a sky — clear, clouds, sunset — and place the sun, on the same exterior.Lawn ReplacementPick a lawn style, shade and mowing stripes instead of leaving it to the tool.Day-to-NightTurn the touched-up exterior into a warm dusk shot — lights on, twilight sky.

Shoot the listing as it is. Touch it up in seconds.

Upload an exterior listing photo. Get it back in about twenty seconds with a natural sky, a healthy lawn, a clean driveway and the clutter gone — the house untouched.