Relight any photo

Light sets the mood of a picture more than almost anything else. The same face can look warm and friendly, cold and tense, or flat and forgettable, depending on where the light comes from and how hard it is. Usually you decide that when you take the photo or write the prompt. Relight lets you decide it afterwards.

Add an image, drag the light to where you want it, and choose how soft, bright, and colored it should be. Relight makes the image again under that light: new highlights, new shadows, and new color across the subject and the scene. The people, objects, composition, and framing stay as they were.

It works on photos and AI images, on portraits, products, and landscapes. Mango 3 Turbo is the default model, and Mango 3, the Guava models, and others are in the Model menu.

The direction control moves the light around the subject in steps of 45 degrees. Light from the front fills the face evenly and hides texture, which is clean but can look flat. Light from 45 degrees to one side is the classic portrait setup: one side bright, the other in gentle shadow, with shape in the cheeks and jaw. Light from the side splits the face in two for a dramatic look.

Light from behind outlines the subject with a bright rim and leaves the front darker, which separates a person from the background. Light from above reads as midday sun or a ceiling lamp, and light from below looks unusual and theatrical, like a face over a campfire.

• Front: even and clean.
• Three-quarter side: shape and depth for portraits.
• Behind: a rim of light and separation from the background.

Soft light comes from a large source, such as a cloudy sky or a window, and makes gentle shadows with blurry edges. It flatters skin and suits portraits, beauty, and food. Hard light comes from a small or distant source, such as direct sun or a bare bulb, and makes crisp shadows with sharp edges. It adds drama, texture, and contrast.

Brightness runs from 0 to 100 percent. Keep it moderate for a natural change and push it higher for a strong key light. Low brightness with a hard light from the side gives a moody, low-key look.

The light color shifts the mood of the whole scene. Warm amber and orange read as sunset, candlelight, or a lamp indoors. Cool blue reads as moonlight, shade, or an overcast morning. Strong colors such as magenta, teal, or red give the neon look of a club or a city at night.

Match the color to the story. A portrait at golden hour wants a warm, soft light low from the side. A night scene wants a cool, dim light. A product shot usually wants white or slightly warm light, so its real colors read correctly.

• Golden hour: warm, soft, low from the side.
• Moonlight: cool blue, dim, from above.
• Neon: a strong color, hard, from the side or behind.

Fix a flat selfie lit straight on by moving the light to one side. Light a subject to match a new background after you change it with the AI background changer, so the two read as one photo. Try several studio setups on one product photo before you pick the one for a listing.

To see the same subject from another viewpoint too, run Angles first, then relight the new view. When you are done, upscale the best version with the Image Enhancer.

Generated images often come out with the same safe light: soft, frontal, and evenly bright. It is easy on the eye but rarely memorable. A pass through Relight with a stronger light from the side, a rim from behind, or a colored light gives an image the mood the prompt did not ask for.

Relight is also a quick way to explore. Run the same image with three or four lighting setups, compare them in History, and keep the one that tells the story best. That is faster than writing new prompts and hoping the light comes out right.