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Lighting presets

The shape and quality of the light on the subject.

If you don’t pick one: The scene's own available light is used.

This page shows basic context only. Hover any preset in the app itself for the fuller explanation, including when to reach for it.

49 presets

Preset	What you get
Backlit Foliage Glow	Bright sun blown to a soft glow behind a screen of leaves, green-gold colour bleeding into the shadow side.
Backlit Rim	Light behind the subject tracing a bright outline along hair and shoulders, the front kept dark.
Backlit Steam (Food)	Warm light behind the dish shining toward the lens, catching steam or glossy sauce as a bright rim.
Bare Cool Bulb in a Dark Workshop	One bare cool-white bulb close to a work surface: a crisp bright pool on the work, the rest of the workshop in readable cool shadow.
Blown White Backlight	Strong backlight blowing the background to near-white, subject rim-lit with a soft frontal fill.
Bright Airy (Food)	Large soft light directly overhead, very even and low-contrast, almost no visible shadow.
Butterfly	Key light straight above the lens, casting a small butterfly-shaped shadow under the nose.
Candle-Flame Glow	Small candle flames held close: a deep amber glow on faces and hands that falls away within an arm's length.
Clamshell Beauty	Large soft source above plus a reflector below — luminous even skin with a faint shadow under the chin.
Coloured Gel Wash	Saturated coloured gels from opposite sides — one colour across one half of the subject, a contrasting one across the other.
Dappled Canopy Sunlight	Direct sun broken into shifting patches by a leaf canopy overhead.
Daylight Filtered Through Bonfire Smoke	Ordinary daylight scattered and muted by a drifting curtain of ground-level smoke.
Direct Flash	Hard on-camera flash straight at the subject — flat punchy light, shiny highlights on skin, a crisp shadow on the wall behind.
Dusk Horizon Afterglow	The last warm band of light along the horizon after the sun has already dropped away, fading to cool grey above.
Flat Overcast Backlight Silhouette	A wide flat overcast sky filling the background, strong enough to flatten anything in front of it to a dark shape.
Floodlit — Banked Floodlights	Banks of tall floodlights on towers, hard cool-white light from several steep angles at once.
Golden Hour	Low warm sun just after sunrise or before sunset — long soft shadows, amber skin, a glowing rim on the hair.
Hard Daylight Shaft Through a Gap	One crisp-edged shaft of direct daylight cutting into a dim room through a narrow gap.
Hard Sun	Direct unclouded sun — high contrast, sharply-defined shadow edges, bright specular highlights.
Hazy Atmospheric Diffusion	Sun behind thin haze — a pale glow with no hard disc, shadows present but soft-edged.
High-Key	Bright and near-shadowless, everything lifted toward white including the background.
Household Lamp and Window Colour Clash	A warm household lamp on one side of a room competing with cool window daylight on the other.
Jaali Lattice Sun Pattern	Hard sun through a carved stone lattice out of frame, scattering a crisp star-and-hexagon pattern of light and shadow.
Large Stacked Bonfire Lighting a Crowd at Night	A large stacked ground fire throwing warm light broadly across many nearby faces, cool fluorescent spill at the edge.
Light Tent	Subject enclosed in diffusion so light wraps from every direction — no glare, no hard edge anywhere.
Low Sun Flare Through Distant Trees	A low sun hidden behind distant trees, blooming a warm flare into one corner against a cool hazy scene.
Low Sun Glare Off Water	Low sun just above a water line, throwing a blown-out glare disc across the surface.
Low-Key	Mostly shadow with small controlled pools of light, the background falling away to black.
Midday Sun	Sun directly overhead — harsh top-down light with dark shadows under the brows, nose and chin.
Moody Dark (Food)	A single hard side light against a near-black background — everything else drops to pure shadow.
Moving Coloured Stage Gel Beams	Overhead moving-head stage lights throwing distinct hard-edged green and violet beams through haze.
Museum Spotlight Pools	Narrow ceiling spots isolating objects in separate pools of light, surroundings dim.
Night Market Bulb Strings	Bare warm bulbs strung overhead, each its own small point source with visible highlights.
On-Location Softbox Key	A single portable softbox on a stand, angled in as an obvious key against available light.
Open Bonfire as the Only Night Source	An open wood fire as the only light at night, intensely warm near the flame and easing into deep blue night beyond it.
Overcast	Whole-sky diffusion through cloud — flat, even, almost shadowless, with muted colour.
Phone Screen Glow Against Cool Ambient	A small phone screen held close as the brightest point in frame, against a much dimmer cool ambient.
Raking Low Sun Casting Bare Branch Shadows	A low near-horizontal sun throwing long hard-edged branch shadows across open ground.
Rembrandt	One key light high and to the side, leaving a small lit triangle on the shadowed cheek.
Ring Light	A ring of light around the lens — completely even frontal fill, no shadow on the face, circular catchlights in the eyes.
Saturated Red-Pink Ambient Gel Wash	A whole space flooded evenly in deep red-pink coloured light with no visible fixture.
Sheer Curtain Window Light	Daylight through a sheer curtain, scattered into a soft even wash with gentle falloff.
Skimming Rim Backlight	Low late-afternoon sun directly behind the subject, drawing a bright warm rim along edges and fingers.
Sodium-Vapour Streetlight	One tall sodium streetlamp overhead: monochrome orange light that drains colour to amber and brown.
Split Lighting	Light hard from one side only — half the face lit, half in near-total shadow.
Street Candid	Whatever light happens to be there — mixed colour temperatures, uneven, unstyled.
Veil Diffusion Glow	Light filtered through sheer fabric draped near the subject — soft, romantic, broken-up shadow.
Warm Point Source in the Dark	A single small warm lamp close to the subject: a rich amber pool on the face, the room stepping down into warm, readable shadow.
Window Side Light (Food)	Soft natural light from a window to one side, warm with a gentle shadow rolling away from it.