Recommended Photography Settings
Best camera settings for AutoHDR, bracketing, file format, lens correction, and white balance.
Shoot 3 or 5 bracketed exposures per angle at ±2 EV apart.
Take your brackets as quickly and consecutively as possible, and hold the camera steady between shots. Significant movement between exposures can cause misalignment during the HDR merge.
A tripod helps with alignment but is not required, handheld photography works well as long as brackets are taken in quick succession.
Do not shoot the same angle twice. The AI may merge duplicate frames into a single bracket set, producing an incorrect result. If you need to reshoot an angle, delete the original frames first.
If you need two versions of the same space (e.g. door open vs. closed), move the camera slightly or adjust the zoom so the frames are clearly distinct from each other.
Turn off Perspective Correction when photographing with extreme angles or pointing the camera upward at tall buildings. Leave buffer space at the top and bottom of the frame. Perspective Correction applies a slight crop, and important details at the edges can get cut off.
Lens profile corrections are applied automatically to every upload and cannot be disabled.
Perspective Correction straightens vertical lines in your images. It is enabled by default. To disable it, go to your account settings and turn off Perspective Correction. Any new uploads or re-uploads after that will be processed without it applied.
Shoot on Auto White Balance or set a consistent custom white balance for the property. AutoHDR's AI will balance and color-correct your photos regardless. This applies whether you're shooting auto or manual white balance.
The AI also removes color cast from your images. This means it will neutralize mixed lighting situations, such as excessive blue light coming from windows blending with intense orange tungsten light from interior lighting, producing a natural, balanced result without those color clashes.
AutoHDR supports both JPEG and RAW. Either works. JPEG files are smaller, so they upload faster. RAW files are larger and will take a bit longer to transfer.
You can also upload a single exposure per angle if needed, this works well for exterior shots or situations where you only have one usable frame. The result won't have the full dynamic range of a merged bracket set, but AutoHDR will still produce a clean, professionally edited image.
AutoHDR exports at 300 DPI. Whatever resolution and dimensions you upload, those same dimensions come back out.