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AI Vertical Line Straightening Tool

Imagen's AI was built for real estate photographers. It automatically corrects perspective distortion so you can deliver perfect photos, faster.

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  • DPReview
  • Shotkit
  • Expert Photography
  • Fstoppers
  • PetaPixel

Every edit your listings need, handled automatically

  • Color Enhancement

    Ensure every listing looks inviting and true to life, with consistent color across every photographer on your team.

  • HDR merge

    Create balanced interiors from multiple exposures. Our HDR blending merges

  • Perspective correction

    Fix tilted walls and converging verticals automatically. Your interiors look architecturally accurate.

  • Sky Replacement

    Replace overcast skies with bright blue alternatives using AI sky replacement. Turn dull exteriors into listing photos that pop — every exterior shot, in any we

  • Straighten

    Fix tilted walls and perspective distortion instantly. Ensure every house looks architecturally accurate with precise perspective correction tools.

  • Windows Pull

    Recover blown-out window details instantly, so your interior shots get ideal indoor and outdoor clarity

Reviews from those who know best.

  • Rated 5 out of 5

    “The term 'game changer' gets thrown out a lot, but for any busy photographer, this software will change your life.”

    Michael AntonyMichael Antony Photography, USA
  • Rated 5 out of 5

    “My survival is due to Imagen… I would MARVEL at how little I had to adjust.”

    Charmi Patel PeñaWedding Photographer, USA
  • Rated 5 out of 5

    “It’s so refreshing to start with a high level of quality, and it leaves me with much more energy to spend on my favorite photos.”

    Sam HurdSam Hurd Photography, USA
  • Rated 5 out of 5

    “Discovering Imagen has been like someone inventing toilet paper. Simply essential and now life is unthinkable without it. I now know that those years of editing backlogs are a thing of the past. I'm truly grateful.”

    Sarah EdmundsPortrait & Wedding Photographer, Italy
  • Rated 5 out of 5

    “It’s a must for me after my culling process. Love Imagen since day one.”

    Fer JuaristiFer Juaristi Photography, Mexico
  • Rated 5 out of 5

    “Thanks to Imagen, I can actually enjoy editing… I have recovered hundreds of hours back.”

    Daniel AlonsoPeople TrueLove Tellers, Spain

Imagen cuts editing time by up to 96%

Stop spending countless hours on repetitive editing tasks.
Focus on what matters most: your creativity and your clients.

  • 96% Faster editing

    Cut your post-production time dramatically with AI-powered automation.

  • Instant color correction

    Apply consistent edits across hundreds of photos in seconds, not hours.

  • Automated culling

    Let AI identify and remove blurry shots, duplicates, and closed eyes automatically.

  • Batch processing

    Edit entire events shoots or portrait sessions while you focus on your next creative work.

Next-morning delivery

Deliver galleries before coffee

Upload your brackets tonight and get a full gallery back by morning. We edit, cull, and straighten every vertical line in minutes, so you always deliver on time, every time.

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Brand consistency

Scale your team, not your hours

Your Personal AI Profile learns your unique editing style. Now every photographer on your team, from new hires to seasoned pros, delivers the exact same look on every single listing.

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Imagen’s AI Editing and Retouching Tools

  • Crop & Straighten

    AI levels tilted horizons and crops every photo around its subject, automatically, across your whole shoot. Review and adjust every result in Lightroom Classic.

  • HDR Merge

    Automatically combine 3–9 bracketed exposures into one perfectly balanced photo using an AI HDR photo merge tool that handles indoor and outdoor lighting in one shot.

  • Smooth Skin

    Smooth Skin finds every face, masks the skin and softens it automatically, so every portrait looks polished and natural without manual retouching.

  • Object removal

    Object Removal automatically detects and removes exit signs, fire alarms, fire extinguishers, and fire stickers from your photos — across your entire gallery, in the cloud, without Photoshop.

  • Batch Editing

    Edit thousands of photos in your style automatically. Imagen's AI learns your editing preferences and applies them consistently across entire projects, so you deliver faster without losing your creative touch.

  • Whiten Teeth

    Whiten Teeth detects and brightens teeth in each photo automatically, so every smile looks its best without manual retouching.

  • Perspective Correction

    Automatically fix distorted lines and tilted horizons using an AI image perspective correction tool that analyzes each photo, with full control to review and adjust every result.

  • Portrait Crop

    Automatically crop hundreds of portrait photos to a consistent frame using an AI portrait crop tool that detects each subject and places them perfectly — so every face lands exactly where it should.

  • Headshot Crop

    Automatically crop headshots with an AI headshot photo cropper that detects every subject and frames each shot consistently, with full control to review and adjust every result.

  • Background Mask

    Mask the background in every photo automatically and adjust its exposure, color and texture on their own, so your subject stands out. Review and refine every result in Lightroom Classic.

  • Denoise

    Remove grain from high-ISO and low-light RAW photos automatically. Imagen sets the strength for each photo, keeps the detail and your editing style, and sends the results to Lightroom Classic.

  • Background Extraction

    Automatically extract subjects from any photo using an AI-powered background remover that keeps edges clean, detail sharp, and every result ready to review.

  • Window Pull

    Balance bright windows with indoor subjects using an AI-powered tool that detects overexposed areas and pulls back highlights, with full control to review and adjust every result.

  • Export to a Gallery

    Export final JPEGs straight from Imagen to Pic-Time galleries or your local folder. Complete your entire workflow from camera to client, without switching apps.

  • Remove Duplicate Photos

    Imagen's AI culling groups similar shots and keeps only the best. Duplicate Removal happens automatically, so you review fewer photos and deliver faster.

  • Eye Blink Detection

    Imagen's AI analyzes every face in your photos and detects closed eyes automatically. Blink Detection flags the issue so you keep the shots where everyone looks their best.

  • Subject Masking

    Imagen's AI Subject Mask finds the main subject in every photo and adjusts it on its own, so it stands out. No manual brushwork, no repetitive masking: consistent results across your whole project, ready in Lightroom Classic.

  • Sharpness Check

    Automatically detect the sharpest photos in every set using an AI-powered Sharpness Check that analyzes focus accuracy — so you cull faster and choose with confidence.

  • Backup Original RAW files

    Automatically back up your original RAW files to secure cloud storage as you work — so your client photos are always protected, without any extra steps.

  • High-Res Optimized Storage

    Store full-resolution photos at up to 75% smaller file size — so your photo storage goes 4x further, uploads faster, and your work stays protected without the cost of raw file bloat.

  • Imagen API

    The Imagen API lets developers connect Imagen's AI editing engine directly to any app, platform, or workflow — so your photos get edited automatically, at any scale, without the desktop app.

  • Stray Hair

    Stray Hair detects flyaways in each portrait and removes them automatically, so every photo looks polished without hours of manual retouching.

  • Face Retouch

    Face Retouch detects and corrects common skin imperfections in each portrait. Blemishes, under-eye shadows, uneven texture; so every photo looks polished without tedious manual work.

Early bird discount

Only pay for photos you edit

No contracts, cancel anytime. Save money with pricing built for real estate photographers.

  • 30% off first month

    Pay-as-you-go

    No commitment, pay for what you need.

    US$0.22/ photoWasUS$0.32

    First month 30% off, then US$0.32/photo. Applied at checkout. Cancel anytime.

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    What you get

    • Full AI editing suite for property imagesHDR merge, sky replacement, window pull, perspective correction
    • One-click AI fixesVirtual staging, digital twilight, green grass, black TV screens, and remove camera
    • 5 human revisions per listing
    • Up to 6K resolution output
    • RAW and JPEG support
    • Privacy blur for faces and license plates, property lines, branded watermark

    * Prices in USD. Billed at the end of each month for that month’s edited photos.

  • For Teams

    For teams processing 25,000+ photos/year

    Custom

    Volume pricing for real estate teams and high-output agencies.

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    What you get

    Everything in the Pay-as-you-go plan plus:

    • Volume discounts
    • Dedicated account manager
    • Priority processing

    * Tailored to your workflow. Tell us your volume and we’ll build a quote.

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Faster editing time
96%
Saving on editing costs
90%
Typical turnaround
24h

Frequently asked questions

What is perspective correction and why does it matter for real estate photos?

Perspective correction keeps that the vertical lines in your photos are perfectly straight, which is critical for making properties look stable, accurate, and professional. When you're shooting interiors or exteriors, especially with a wide-angle lens, tilting the camera up or down causes an effect called keystoning. This is where parallel vertical lines, like walls and doorframes, appear to converge or fall away from the viewer. This lens distortion can make a beautiful space feel unsettling or poorly photographed. Correcting the perspective makes walls, windows, and architectural details appear perfectly upright, just as the human eye expects to see them. This creates a sense of balance and high quality that's essential for attracting potential buyers and impressing your clients. It's a fundamental step for professional real estate photography that our AI takes care of automatically, saving you from tedious manual adjustments on every single image.

Why do my vertical lines look like they're falling backward in my photos?

Your vertical lines appear to fall backward because of an effect called keystoning, which happens when your camera's sensor isn't perfectly parallel to the subject you're shooting. This is an extremely common challenge in real estate photography, especially when using a wide-angle lens to capture an entire room or the full height of a building. If you have to tilt your camera upward to fit everything in the frame, the vertical lines of the walls will seem to converge toward the top, creating a distorted perspective. This keystoning can make a property look unstable or unprofessional. Manually correcting this for every image is a slow and repetitive process. Our AI Straighten Vertical Lines Real Estate Tool is designed specifically to identify and fix this common lens distortion automatically, ensuring every wall and doorframe is perfectly straight and giving your images a polished, architectural look.

How does Imagen's AI automatically fix perspective and keystoning?

Our AI fixes perspective by analyzing the geometry within each individual photo to identify the dominant vertical and horizontal lines, then intelligently adjusting the image to make them perfectly straight. The technology has been trained on thousands of professionally corrected real estate images, so it understands what proper architectural perspective looks like. It instantly detects the tell-tale signs of keystoning and other forms of lens distortion that cause vertical lines to converge or bow. After its analysis, it applies the precise geometric transformations needed to correct the image without you having to draw a single guide line or touch a slider. It's not a simple skew or rotation. It's a sophisticated adjustment that mimics what a professional retoucher would do manually, but it completes the task in a fraction of a second across your entire catalog.

Can I apply perspective corrections to an entire catalog of images at once?

Yes, you can apply perspective corrections to thousands of images simultaneously, which saves you hours of manual work on every single shoot. Our workflow is built from the ground up for high-volume real estate photographers. You don't have to open each photo one by one to fix its perspective. You simply upload your entire shoot, choose your Personal AI Profile for color and tone, and enable the perspective correction feature. The AI will then analyze and correct the vertical lines and keystoning for every image in the batch automatically. This means you can deliver a fully edited gallery with perfect lines in record time. Instead of spending hours in front of the computer adjusting sliders for hundreds of photos, you get consistent, professional results without the effort, freeing you up to focus on your next shoot.

How is this different from the Upright tool in Lightroom?

While Lightroom's Upright tool is powerful, Imagen's AI provides a fully automated, batch-processing tool that requires zero manual intervention per photo. With the native Lightroom tool, you often have to cycle through modes like Auto, Guided, or Full to find the best result, and even then, you might need to make manual tweaks. This becomes incredibly time-consuming across a full real estate shoot with dozens of images. Our AI is designed for complete automation from the start. It analyzes the content of each specific image to apply the best correction immediately. It intelligently identifies the dominant vertical lines and corrects for both keystoning and complex lens distortion with a higher degree of initial accuracy. It’s not about replacing a tool you know, it’s about removing the repetitive task of using it so you get consistently great perspective across your entire gallery, instantly.

Does the AI work on RAW files from any camera or just specific ones?

Yes, our AI works directly with the RAW files from all major camera manufacturers, keeping you get the highest possible quality without any compatibility headaches. We designed the system to be compatible with the gear that professional real estate photographers actually use every day. Whether you shoot with Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, or another major brand, you can upload your RAW files directly into our app. The AI uses the rich metadata embedded in your files, including information about the specific camera and lens you used, to make even more accurate corrections. This is especially important for fixing the complex lens distortion common with the ultra wide-angle lenses used in our industry. By working with the original RAW data, our tool preserves maximum image quality while perfecting the perspective and keeping all your vertical lines are straight.

How much time can I save by automating perspective correction on a typical real estate shoot?

You can save 1 to 3 minutes per image, which easily adds up to more than an hour of tedious work saved on a typical 35-image real estate shoot. Think about your current workflow. Finding the right perspective tool, drawing guides, or cycling through automatic options and then fine-tuning the result takes time. If you average just 2 minutes per photo to perfect the vertical lines, a standard photo delivery can consume over an hour of your day on this single task alone. With our AI, that time is reduced to zero. The correction for keystoning and other perspective issues happens automatically as part of your overall edit. For photographers shooting multiple properties a day, this time saving is real. It means you can deliver galleries faster, take on more clients, and spend less time behind a computer screen.

What if the AI's perspective correction is too strong or not quite right?

You always remain in full control of the final image because our AI corrections are applied as non-destructive adjustments inside your editing software. We believe AI is a tool to assist you, not replace your creative judgment. When Imagen edits your photos, the perspective corrections are applied using the native transformation sliders in your Lightroom Classic catalog. This means if you ever feel an adjustment needs a slight tweak, you can simply open the photo and modify the sliders just as you would with any manual edit. The AI does 99% of the heavy lifting by getting the vertical lines and keystoning almost perfect instantly, but the final say is always yours. You get the speed of automation without ever sacrificing the ability to fine-tune the creative details. It delivers incredible efficiency with complete artistic control.

Will this tool correct the lens distortion from my ultra wide-angle lens?

Yes, our AI is specifically trained to correct the complex lens distortion, like bowing and warping, that is a common side effect of using ultra wide-angle lenses. We know that wide-angle lenses are absolutely essential for professional real estate photography, but they also introduce their own unique challenges. Beyond simple keystoning, these lenses can cause barrel distortion, where straight lines appear to curve outwards from the center of the frame. Our AI tool addresses this specific type of lens distortion as part of its overall perspective correction process. It goes beyond just straightening the main vertical lines and also works to correct the bowing of horizontal lines that can make countertops, floors, or ceilings look warped. The result is an image that feels spacious and expansive, as intended, but also geometrically accurate and professional, without distracting and unnatural distortion.

Does correcting keystoning with AI reduce the image quality or resolution?

No, our process is designed to preserve maximum image quality because it works directly with your original RAW file data and applies transformations intelligently. Any time you adjust the perspective of an image, whether you do it manually or with AI, the software has to stretch and transform pixels, which naturally results in some minor cropping. However, our AI minimizes this effect by applying the most efficient transformation possible to correct keystoning. It analyzes the image to straighten vertical lines with the least amount of pixel manipulation required, preserving sharpness and essential detail. Since we work with your high-resolution RAW files from the very start, the final edited image remains crisp and clear, ready for high-quality web listings and print materials. You get perfectly straight lines without a noticeable loss in resolution or quality.

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