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I don’t see it as lying any more than adjusting exposure or white balance on a camera does.

It doesn’t add or remove anything from the scene, it just fixes bad lighting, color cast, perspective, and sharpness, basically what any decent photographer already does in post.

If anything, it helps photos reflect how the place actually looks in real life instead of dark, crooked, yellowish snapshots.

Totally get the concern, and I actually agree on the “Instagram-ification” problem.

What ProntoPic does is basically what a professional real estate photographer already does in Lightroom: fix lighting, white balance, perspective, and sharpness. No adding pools, no changing furniture, no fake sunsets, no staging things that aren’t there. My girlfriend is an interior designer, so I see firsthand how much effort goes into making spaces look 100% accurate but well presented.

The goal isn’t to misrepresent reality, just to make photos look like they were taken properly.

In practice this mostly helps small hosts and agents who don’t have the budget or time for professional shoots. Right now they’re uploading dark, crooked, yellowish photos that actively hurt bookings (like the ones in the hp, real examples).

I guess I need to make it clearer in the site. Thank you for the feedback!