Delete blurry frames the same day

Review the set before you upload it, and drop any frame that is dark, tilted, or soft.

Black camera sitting on a table.

Review the set before you upload it, on a larger screen than the phone you shot with. A frame that looks fine on a small screen can be soft, dark, or tilted on a listing page. Do this the same day, while you can still reopen a shade and try again. Tomorrow the light will be different and you will talk yourself into keeping a bad frame.

Delete shots with a tilted line, a dark corner you did not mean, or a reflection of the person taking the photo. Soft focus on a wide shot of a main room means that room has no wide shot yet. Retake it. Do not keep a blurry frame as a backup. Backups are how the wrong photo gets uploaded. If the only front photo has a car in it, that is not a keeper either. Reshoot the front.

Name the keepers by room as you delete. Kitchen wide, kitchen sink, primary bed wide. A named set of a dozen frames is a listing. An unnamed roll of eighty is a chore you will postpone. The postpone is how a dark photo goes live. Put the keepers in one folder and the rejects in another only if you need them for a repair record. Otherwise delete the rejects so you cannot pick them by mistake.

If a room still has no clean wide shot at the end of the review, it goes back on the photo list for the next daylight, not into the upload. Tell anyone helping you which folder is the one to send. One sentence in a message, with the folder name, prevents a second person from attaching the camera roll. The same-day rule is the whole tip: sort while the house is still set the way you shot it.

What to do

  1. Review every frame on a large screen the same day.
  2. Delete soft, dark, tilted, or reflected shots.
  3. Retake a room if the wide shot is not clean.
  4. Name the keepers by room and upload only that folder.
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