Providing Services to Prepare the Home for Sale

One of the nice things about having the business a little slow this week is the chance to play with different programs.

This home was re-staged in December 2009 after the buyer couldn't close on the home.

I thought this would be a good opportunity to try the Photosynth program again.

I'm looking for opinions on the program and it's potential in marketing homes for sale.

Royal Oak staged by Stage-Show-Sell, LLC

My AR family I need your opinion

I'm fascinated by Photosynth and what the possibilities that it has.  The only problem is that I'm having a terrible time getting it right.

So, I hoping that there are more AR members who are playing with it and we can support each other.

This home was staged by Stage-Show-Sell, LLC in November of 2009.

This project took me about 10 hours of playing and experimenting  It's not right but it's close enough to start the group with.

As you can see one of the problems that I'm having is getting it to start where I want it to start.  How do I get it to recognize the first photo.

The Microsoft help section leaves a lot to be desired.

Bye Bye Booties.  I hate to see your go Bye Bye Booties

Little play on words here.  It came to mind after watching this weeks episode of Mad Men.   Love that shoe.

I've always put a basket of Blue Booties (shoe condoms) for those rainy/snowy days.  We hate to see the hard word that we've done go bad with wet shoes.

Now with all the Asian families looking for properties in our areas I thought I would try something a little different.    They like to take their shoes off at the door and slip into slippers.

The little booties don't last long and the price is about $1 a pair.  These slippers were $1.99 and should last longer.

oh yes, there is a pair of blue booties for those who can't try something new

My post http://activerain.com/blogsview/953931/Having-fun-and-not-getting-into-trouble-yet-I-DO-NEED-HELP-WITH-A-VIDEO   asked for help with a movie I took sideways :-)   I was asking for help

Pangaea Interior Design wasn't sure how create the panorama shots.

I'll try to give my simple explination here.

My camera is a FujiFilm FinePixS8000fd.   This was purchased because of the wide angle lens and the great room shots I could take.  These worked out so well on the mls.

To create a panorama shot:   stand in a section of the room (preferred entry way to room) where you can easily turn and see the whole room.

Take a photo as far left as you can of that room.     This is the trick. The next shot is to the right and this photo need to over lap the previous one by about 1/3 .  I like to overlap a picture frame or a lamp --- something that is straight vertically.

Slowly turn your body, or use a tripod, and take pictures of the whole room.

Use a program like Photoshop, the version of photoshop elements that I have won't work, to knit the photos together.

The program, that I'm working with now is Autostitch, is working real well.   I'm still using the trial program.

Don't want to spend my money on a new program until I know which one that I like the best.

Hope this helps. 

The difference between turning my camera sideways is that I can get the ceiling and the floor in the photos.

This shot is shooting the room with the camera in the normal manner

This shot was done with the camera held on its side and the whole ceiling shows.