Sometimes an image is perfect — only the light is wrong. /relight is a quick skill that acts as a lighting director: it takes your photo or a generated image and changes only the illumination — direction, intensity, color temperature, shadows and atmosphere — while the subject, pose and every physical detail stay exactly as they were. Choose from fourteen named cinematic looks (Golden Hour, Neon Noir, Chiaroscuro Drama…) or describe the light freely. This guide walks the whole flow from loading an image to optional variants.
What you'll need
- An open project in FilmMovie Studio with an image provider configured.
- An image to relight — a photo from your computer or an existing card on the canvas.
- An idea of the light you want — direction, temperature and mood (or a named preset).
Step by step
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Load the source image
Drag a photo into the chat (or use the attachment clip), or right-click an existing image card on the canvas and choose "Add to chat". This is the single source the relight is computed from.
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Run the /relight skill
Type /relight in the chat and pick the skill from the list. You can add your intent right after it, e.g. "/relight to golden hour". The app confirms which image it's treating as the source.
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Describe the new light
Say where the light should come from and what mood it should have — e.g. "soft side light from the left, warm around 3200K, dramatic shadows to the right". You can also name a ready-made preset such as Window Light or Neon Noir.
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Fill in the details in a short brief
If you didn't fully describe the mood, the app opens one short brief with tabs: direction, temperature, mood and background. Pick one option per tab — for example background "darken to near-black" — and confirm.
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Generate the relit version
The app composes the prompt (preservation clause first, then the new light, then the background) and calls image generation. A new card joins the canvas, linked to the original; while generating it shimmers, then fills with the result.
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Ask for variants
When the app offers "Want 1–3 alternate lighting takes?", accept and name different directions or moods. Each variant is always computed from the original (not a previous relight), so quality never degrades, and all cards hang off the source.
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Fine-trim the chosen card
If the result is nearly perfect, right-click the winning card and choose color grade. Small moves in temperature, contrast, brightness and saturation finish the tone without regenerating. One round is usually enough.
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What you get
From a single source image you now have a relit version — or several variants — where only the light, shadows and atmosphere changed, while the subject and composition stayed identical. Every card hangs off the original on the canvas, and you can send the winner onward into animation or the timeline.
Pro tips
- Always compute variants from the original, not a previous relight — relighting an already-relit image degrades quality.
- Two presets can be blended, e.g. "Golden Hour direction with a Rim Halo backlight", when your answers point between them.
- If generation fails, the app shows the provider error verbatim and suggests one prompt tweak — you decide, it never auto-retries.
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