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How to use AI Photo Relighting
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Upload your photo
Choose the image you want to relight. Portraits, products, interiors, and lifestyle shots usually work well. - 2
Choose a lighting direction
Describe the mood or lighting style you want, such as soft studio light, golden hour, cinematic shadows, or dramatic side light. - 3
Generate lighting variations
Create multiple lighting looks, compare the results, and download the best version.
AI Photo Relighting Use Cases
Use AI photo relighting to improve mood, depth, and polish across portraits, product photos, ads, and creative images.
Try softer, more flattering, or more professional lighting for headshots and profile photos.
Improve product shots with cleaner highlights, stronger shadows, and more premium studio looks.
Create darker, warmer, brighter, or more cinematic versions of an image for ads and content.
Shift an image toward golden hour, night, studio, daylight, or dramatic editorial lighting.
Generate multiple lighting treatments before choosing the final visual direction.
Improve images that feel too flat, dull, or visually unclear without manually editing shadows and highlights.
Why Creators Love AI Photo Relighting
Adjust lighting and mood on one image — compare multiple treatments in a grid before you lock the final look.
Change mood fast
Turn the same image into brighter, darker, softer, or more dramatic versions.
No manual masking
Avoid complex light painting, selections, and layer adjustments.
Great for products and portraits
Use relighting for both commercial images and personal photos.
Multiple lighting options
Compare several looks side by side in a single grid.
Preserve the core image
Keep the subject and composition while changing the lighting treatment.
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AI Photo Relighting Features
Generate new lighting looks from one image with AI.
Lighting direction control
Try front light, side light, backlight, soft light, or dramatic shadows.
Mood presets
Create studio, cinematic, golden hour, low-key, bright, or editorial looks.
Subject-aware relighting
Change the lighting while keeping the subject recognizable.
Grid comparison
Generate several lighting variations and choose the strongest result.
AI Photo Relighting FAQ
Yes, AI photo relighting is free with no sign up required. You get 3 free relights per day — no account needed. Sign up for free to unlock account-specific credits and rewards, saved projects, and access to more tools. Upgrade for more credits, priority processing, and advanced features.
No. AI photo relighting works in your browser with no account, no sign up, and nothing to install. Sign up for free to unlock account-specific credits, rewards, and saved projects.
No watermark on AI photo relighting results for all users, including free users with no sign up.
It changes the lighting, shadows, direction, and mood of an image while preserving the subject and composition.
Yes. It can create softer, more professional, or more cinematic lighting for portraits and headshots.
Yes. It can generate cleaner studio lighting, stronger shadows, or more premium editorial product looks.
Yes. Use the prompt to describe lighting direction, intensity, mood, color temperature, or time of day.
It can. Relit photos come out square (1:1), whatever the shape of your upload. For 16:9 or 9:16, relight the photo in AI Image Editor and pick that aspect ratio.
Clear photos with visible subjects work best. Extremely dark, blurry, or heavily overexposed images may be harder to relight cleanly.
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