Now 28% larger photos with the OMS

We’ve increased the photo size of property photos loaded through the OMS, by a massive 28%.

New property photos uploaded since yesterday will now be resized to fit 1024x768 pixel resolution (up from 800x600 pixel resolution). The change will automatically reflect on all Entegral powered websites including MyProperty South Africa & Namibia and your own office website (including the new generation Flex real estate websites).

Click on the photo below for a sample on MyProperty Namibia. (click on the large photo to go full screen):

House For Sale In Swakopmund Central Swakopmund Namibia for NAM 4863000 Ref 721174

If you take time to ensure you take professional photos, this new larger photo size will only compliment your effort and provide buyers with a high quality online viewing experience. It will also enhance the photo quality of PDF brochures you can generate through the OMS. This new larger photo size is still linked to our industry leading ‘unlimited photos’ service. You can upload as many photos as you want on a property.

To make sure your property listings benefit from this larger photo size, remember to NOT resize any photos before you upload them, this is all handled by the OMS. And remember, after you’ve uploaded your photos, it is easy to rearrange the order with simple drag-and-drop functionality as highlighted below:

 

The new photo size is about 60% larger compared to what most other service providers offer. Users using the OMS upload roughly 100,000 new property photos every month. The increased associated cost in bandwidth & hosting & backup of these larger photos on our cloud servers comes at no extra cost to users.

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