As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance and improve the Digital Home Info Real Estate Marketing Platform we have recently released a few new features. A new small sized virtual tour that is ideal for displaying small images and auto-trim and correct photo processing.
The new small virtual tour has all of the same features as our larger animated virtual tour (Home Information, Google Maps, Mortgage Calculator, Appointment Scheduler, Auto-generated PDF Flyer, and photo browser) it is just optimized for smaller files sizes. We have noticed that many of our agents use photos from their local IDX system and that these photos tend to be around 640px by 480px. Although these looked good in the larger virtual tour, sometimes you could tell that a photo had been stretched to make it fit right. So we created this version to match the need. If you upload your own photos or your photos are large you can still use the larger virtual tour. We just wanted to provide another option so that you can get the most out of our service.
Something else we noticed with the IDX photos was that they sometimes contained whitespace (borders) around the edges. So we set out to find a way to remove the whitespace without altering the photo. This is where Auto Trim comes into the picture. Now you can simply click on the “Trim” link under each photo in your gallery and Digital Home Info will automatically remove the whitespace. This greatly improves the presentation of the virtual tour since the white is no longer there to detract from the overall presentation.
We will be blogging how to’s on both of these new features in the coming days so look for those soon. If you have any suggestions or comments please let us know.