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AI relight

Change the light in any photo.

Pick a light and its side, then choose a photo. The image editor redraws it in that light and keeps everything else.

About 8 cents a relight on the $19 plan

A phone selfie of a woman with a sleek dark ponytail in a white shirt, in a white kitchen under flat ceiling lightOriginal
The same selfie relit with warm low sun from the window, glowing on her face and ponytailGolden hour
Light

Light from

The button adds “The light comes from the right, so the left side of the face falls into deep shadow.”

Golden hour, the exact prompt

Relight this photo as late golden hour. Low warm sun comes in through the window on the right and falls across her face and hair, with long soft shadows on the cabinets. Keep her face, hair, shirt and the kitchen the same.

How to relight a photowith AI, in three steps

  1. Upload the photo

    Open the image editor and drop in a PNG, JPG or WebP up to 10 MB.

  2. Describe the light

    Say where it comes from, how soft it is, what color it has and what must stay the same.

  3. Compare and keep

    Every result stays in the history next to the original. Try another light from either one.

Write the light, not the moodSay where it comes from and where it stops

Both window prompts below name the window and switch off the ceiling light. The first asked for gentle shadow and changed almost nothing. The second asked for deep shadow on one side of her face and a dim left half of the kitchen, and the room went dim.

A first window-light attempt that looks almost the same as the original selfieFirst try

Almost nothing changed. The ceiling light still fills her face from the front.

Prompt
Relight this photo with soft daylight from the window on the right only. Turn off the ceiling light so the left side of her face falls into gentle shadow. Keep her face, hair, shirt and the kitchen the same.
The same selfie with the ceiling light off and only grey window light, the kitchen and her face dimmerSecond try

The ceiling light went out. The kitchen and her face dim, the left side most, though the shadow stays soft.

Prompt

  1. Name the sourceRelight this photo so the only light is the window on the right on a grey morning.
  2. Switch off the restThe ceiling light is off.
  3. Say where the shadow fallsThe right side of her face is lit softly, the left side falls into deep soft shadow, and the left half of the kitchen goes dim.
  4. List what to keepKeep her face, hair, shirt and the kitchen the same.
A backlit cafe photo of an older man with glasses whose face is almost black against a bright windowThe same cafe photo fixed, his face and overshirt lit and a street of stone buildings outside the window

Fix a dark or backlit photoBring the face out of the shadow

A bright window behind someone turns them into a silhouette. Ask for light in front of them and detail back in the window.

Prompt
Fix the lighting. Brighten his face and overshirt as if a soft light were in front of him, and bring back detail in the bright window behind him. Keep his face, glasses, the cup and the croissant the same.

What it had to guess

His face was close to black in the original, so the model filled in his eyes and expression from very little. The window was blank white, so the street and buildings behind it are new.

Product photos tooSame bottle, a different set

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An amber dropper bottle with a blank label on a grey stone slab, in flat indoor lightOriginal
Flat indoor light, with almost no shadow.
The same bottle in hard morning sun with leaf shadows across it and the wallMorning sun
Prompt
Relight this as a bright summer morning. Hard sunlight from the upper left comes through a window and casts crisp leaf shadows across the bottle and the wall, and warm light glows through the amber glass. Keep the bottle, label, slab and eucalyptus the same.
The same bottle under one spotlight from above, the background fallen to blackSpotlight
Prompt
Relight this as a dark studio shot. One narrow spotlight shines from directly above, the wall falls off to near black, and a bright rim runs along the edges of the glass. Keep the bottle, label, slab and eucalyptus the same.

Match the light of another photoBring a picture of the light you want

Add a second image to the same prompt and say what to take from it. The editor takes up to 14 images at once.

  1. A phone selfie of a woman with a sleek dark ponytail in a white shirt, in a white kitchen under flat ceiling lightYour photo
  2. A cobbled street at blue hour with warm orange light from a shop window and a street lampThe light you want
  3. The selfie relit with blue evening light from the window and warm orange light on her faceResult
Prompt
Relight the first photo to match the light in the second photo: deep blue evening light from the window and warm orange lamplight on her face from the left. Keep her face, hair, shirt and the kitchen from the first photo.

What changed besides the lightWe checked every result on this page

The model redraws the whole photo in the new light, so other things can move too. Here is what we found, at the spot where it shows.

  1. Original
    Window light

    Window light

    Zoomed in on the shelves on the left

    Kept
    Her face, the framing, the jars on the shelves, the garden outside.
    Changed
    Nothing besides the light that we could find.
  2. Original
    Golden hour

    Golden hour

    Zoomed in on her face

    Kept
    Her face, ponytail and shirt, the shelves and the kettle.
    Changed
    Her head turned a little toward the camera, and the window behind her moved slightly to the left.
  3. Original
    Studio

    Studio

    Zoomed in on the edge of her hair

    Kept
    Her face, shirt and the framing.
    Changed
    Loose flyaway hairs appeared around her head and ponytail where the rim light catches them.
  4. Original
    Neon

    Neon

    Zoomed in on the window

    Kept
    Her face, the layout of the kitchen and the garden outside.
    Changed
    A small pink and blue neon sign appeared in the window, and the garden outside stayed green. The light on her face came back almost all pink, with blue only at the edge of the frame.
  5. Original
    Backlit fix

    Backlit fix

    Zoomed in on his face

    Kept
    His pose, glasses and beard, the cup and the croissant.
    Changed
    His face was close to black in the original, so the model filled in his eyes and expression from very little. The window was blank white, so the street and buildings behind it are new.
  6. Original
    Spotlight

    Spotlight

    Zoomed in on the front of the slab

    Kept
    The bottle's shape, the blank label, the dropper.
    Changed
    The front edge of the stone slab is gone and the surface runs into the dark. The bottle sits a little smaller in the frame, and the eucalyptus sprig has a different shape.

Each relight comes back at the editor's default 1K size: 896 by 1200 pixels from this 1200 by 1600 selfie. Upscale in the editor when you need it larger.

Simple pricing that scales with you.

Pick the plan for how much you post. Every model on every plan. Unused credits roll over. Cancel anytime.

Creator

$19/month

Billed monthly

For solo creators posting every week

500 credits every month

  • Up to 250 relights
  • Up to 50 AI videos
  • Up to 1.5 hours of AI voiceover
  • Roll over up to 1,000 credits

Pro

Most popular
$49/month

Billed monthly

For creators posting daily across channels

1,300 credits every month

  • Up to 650 relights
  • Up to 130 AI videos
  • Up to 4 hours of AI voiceover
  • Roll over up to 2,600 credits

Studio

$99/month

Billed monthly

For brands and production teams

2,700 credits every month

  • Up to 1,350 relights
  • Up to 270 AI videos
  • Up to 9 hours of AI voiceover
  • Roll over up to 5,400 credits

Scale

$199/month

Billed monthly

For agencies running always-on content

5,500 credits every month

  • Up to 2,750 relights
  • Up to 550 AI videos
  • Up to 18 hours of AI voiceover
  • Roll over up to 11,000 credits
Every plan includesEvery model, 90+ and countingReusable AI personasSceneform Studio editorCommercial usage rights

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