Change Photo Lighting with AI: Enhance or Relight Your Image for the Perfect Mood

Captured the perfect shot only to find the lighting too dark or want to change your product image’s lighting to create a different mood?

Lighting is the foundation of every photo as it shapes mood, depth, and overall look. But not every picture is taken in perfect lighting. Fortunately, you can adjust lighting during post-production.

Comparison Between Photo with Poor and Right Lighting

The best part? You don’t need professional skills or expensive software to fix poor lighting or even completely relight a photo. In this blog, we’ll show you a simple, AI-powered way to enhance your photo lighting and share examples of how this tool can effortlessly fine-tune your images.

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The AI-powered Tool to Change Lighting in Photo

Changing lighting in a photo with professional software like Photoshop can be time-consuming. It usually goes with a steep learning curve and detailed manual edits. But now with FlexClip, an AI-powered photo lighting editor, adjusting lights in photo to correct lighting flaws is just a few clicks away, even for beginners.

It uses artificial intelligence to analyze the lighting in your original image and adjust the depth and placement of lighting to achieve the perfect illumination, add moody shadows or high-contrast lighting for a dramatic effect based on your text prompts. You don’t need any manual edits. Simply describe how you want the light to fall, or upload a reference image to mimic, and FlexClip’s AI lighting editor will take care of the rest.

The AI-powered Tool to Change Lighting in Photo

Key Features of FlexClip’s AI Photo Lighting Editor

How to Change Lighting in Photo with AI Using FlexClip

Now let’s take a look of how FlexClip’s AI lighting editor can fix bad lighting into flawless by following step-by-step guide below.

1)Fix Poor Lighting in Photo

If you want to brighten the eyes, soften harsh shadows, enhance skin tones, or even reshape the light direction for a more flattering look, you can fix lighting flaws in just one click. Here’s how to do it.

Here we'll use this picture with dark lighting as an example to edit:

Cute Dog Image with Bad Lighting

Step 1: Upload Your Bad Lighting Photo

Access FlexClip’s AI photo editor and upload a selfie, landscape or product image with poor lighting you want to retouch.

Upload Your Bad Lighting Photo

Step 2: Enter Lighting Enhancement Prompt

Describe the lighting area you want to fix with details like the lighting time of a day, the mood you desired or even a classic style you want to recreate. For example, you can say enhance the lighting with soft morning light, calm, airy mood, vintage film portrait look.

Enter Lighting Enhancement Prompt

Step 3: Generate and Download

Hit on Generate button and AI will automatically retouch your lighting to make it look sharper while keeping all the rest unchanged. Once it completes creation, download your relighted photo and share it with friends.

Generate and Download Your Lighting-enhanced Picture

2)Retouch Photo Lighting with a Reference Photo

Feel overwhelmed to describe the exact lighting mood you want? Or looking to adjust your photo’s lighting to match a specific style? Simply upload a reference photo with the lighting you prefer, and FlexClip’s AI will accurately simulate its direction, texture, mood, and quality in your own image. Here’s how to do it.

Here we'll recreate lighting of this picture into your photo:

A Picture with the Lighting and Style You Like

Step 1: Upload Your Photos

Begin by opening FlexClip’s AI photo editor, selecting the generation models you like and uploading both the image requiring lighting enhancement and the reference photo here.

Upload Your Photos to FlexClip

Model options such as Google Nana-Banana/Nana-Banana Pro, OpenAI GPT-Image 1, Bytedance Seedream 4/4.5, Flux 2 Flex, and Flux 2 Pro all support uploading multiple images.

Select Image Generation Model You Like

Step 2: Let AI Retouch Lights with Prompts

Write prompts to let AI swap the lighting style in the reference image into yours. Once you’re done, tap Generate button and watch as AI relight your original image in seconds.

Let AI Retouch Lights with Prompts

Step 3: Download and Share

Now preview your photo with the perfect lighting and mood. Download and share it to amaze your friends now.

Download and Share Your Perfect Lighting Photo

Bonus Tips: FlexClip’s AI photo editor goes far beyond simple lighting adjustments. Whether you want to generate images from text, restyle your photos, perfect your portraits, merge multiple images, or animate still shots, FlexClip gives you the easiest, all-in-one solution to bring your ideas to life.

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