Introducing Spotlight: The Free Property Highlight Tool for Aerial Photos

In property marketing, first impressions matter. Whether you're an estate agent, drone photographer, real estate photographer or property developer, helping buyers immediately identify the property being marketed can make the difference between capturing attention and losing it.

That's why we've launched Spotlight — a brand-new free feature inside PhotoEdit, part of the ReHub ecosystem.

Spotlight allows you to highlight any property, building or area of interest in seconds. Simply draw around the area you want to keep in focus and PhotoEdit instantly fades everything else into black and white, blur, darkening or desaturation.

No Photoshop. No complicated editing. No expensive software.

Just upload, draw, highlight and download.

What is Spotlight?

Spotlight is a browser-based image editing tool that helps you draw attention to exactly what matters in a photograph.

Originally designed for aerial property photography, Spotlight works with any image where you want to emphasise a specific subject.

After uploading your image, simply draw a polygon around your chosen area. Everything inside remains untouched while everything outside can be transformed using a range of professional effects.

Available effects include:

• Black & White
• Desaturate
• Darken
• Blur
• Focus

The result is a clean, professional marketing image that instantly guides the viewer's eye.

Why property professionals need Spotlight

One of the biggest challenges with aerial photography is helping viewers understand exactly which property is being marketed.

A drone image may include dozens of homes, roads and gardens. Unless the property is highlighted, buyers can easily become confused.

Spotlight removes that confusion.

Instead of relying on arrows, circles or distracting graphics, the property naturally becomes the centre of attention.

This creates cleaner marketing material for:

• Estate agency websites
• Rightmove listings
• Zoopla listings
• Property brochures
• Social media campaigns
• Development marketing
• Auction catalogues
• Investor presentations

Perfect for drone photographers

Drone photography has become an essential part of modern property marketing.

However, photographers often spend considerable time in Photoshop masking images to create the classic "highlighted property" effect.

Spotlight reduces this entire workflow to seconds.

Simply:

1. Upload the aerial image
2. Draw around the property
3. Select your preferred effect
4. Download

No layers. No masking. No complex selections. Just a professional result in under a minute.

Built for real estate photographers

Professional photographers already edit thousands of property photographs every year.

PhotoEdit is designed specifically for the property industry, and Spotlight fits naturally alongside other property editing tools.

Whether photographing residential homes, luxury properties, commercial buildings, hotels, schools, development sites or holiday parks, Spotlight helps create more engaging imagery without specialist editing knowledge.

Ideal for estate agents

Estate agents constantly compete for attention online.

A highlighted aerial image can instantly communicate:

• Property boundaries
• Large gardens
• Additional land
• Garages
• Outbuildings
• Development plots

Rather than asking buyers to search an image for the correct property, Spotlight directs their attention immediately. This creates stronger marketing and improves the viewing experience.

Excellent for property developers

Developers often market new housing developments, individual plots, commercial schemes and mixed-use developments.

Spotlight makes it easy to highlight Plot 1, Plot 2, future phases, show homes or sales offices — without cluttering the image.

Commercial property marketing

Commercial property agents can use Spotlight for office buildings, retail parks, warehouses, industrial estates, business parks, hotels and student accommodation.

Large aerial photographs become much easier to understand when the featured building is clearly distinguished.

Land sales

Spotlight is equally useful for land agents. Examples include development land, agricultural land, farms, woodland, investment sites, solar farms and equestrian properties.

Simply outline the land parcel and allow the surrounding landscape to fade into the background.

More than property

Although Spotlight was created for property marketing, it can be used almost anywhere — event venues, schools, universities, hospitals, parks, construction projects, tourist attractions, hotels, museums, resorts and golf courses.

Any image containing multiple areas of interest can benefit from Spotlight.

Why Spotlight is different

Unlike traditional image editing software, Spotlight is built around simplicity.

Most editing applications require layer masks, selection tools, adjustment layers, brushes, feathering and multiple export steps.

Spotlight removes all of that. The workflow becomes:

Upload. Draw. Highlight. Download.

Browser-based and completely private

Privacy is increasingly important.

Unlike many online editors, Spotlight processes your image locally inside your browser.

That means:

• Your images never leave your computer
• Nothing is uploaded to external servers
• No cloud processing
• No waiting for uploads

This makes Spotlight ideal for photographers working with confidential or high-value property imagery.

Part of the ReHub ecosystem

Spotlight is one of many specialist tools available within the growing ReHub platform.

ReHub brings together innovative solutions designed specifically for property professionals. Alongside Spotlight, users can access services including PhotoEdit, Virtual Staging, HyperDusk, HDR enhancement, object removal, image enhancement, 360 virtual tours, floor plans, CGI and other property marketing tools.

Rather than juggling multiple software packages, ReHub provides an integrated ecosystem for modern property marketing.

Why we built Spotlight

Professional property photography shouldn't require expensive editing software.

Many photographers simply want to create a clean highlighted aerial image without learning Photoshop.

Spotlight removes unnecessary complexity while producing professional-quality results suitable for estate agency marketing, developer brochures, social media, sales particulars, print advertising and investor presentations.

The future of Spotlight

The current release focuses on speed and simplicity.

Future updates may include:

• AI boundary detection
• Multiple highlighted areas
• Property labels
• Plot numbering
• Boundary styling
• Animated exports
• Video support
• Batch processing

Our goal is to build the easiest property highlighting tool available anywhere.

Try Spotlight today

If you regularly work with aerial property photography, Spotlight can save valuable editing time while producing cleaner, more professional marketing images.

Whether you're highlighting a luxury home, a development site, commercial premises or a parcel of land, Spotlight makes it simple to direct attention where it belongs.

Upload. Draw. Highlight. Download.

Experience Spotlight today and discover a faster way to create standout property marketing images with PhotoEdit, proudly part of the ReHub ecosystem.