Light direction and shadow shape
Soft front light fills faces and product faces. Side light creates a key side and a darker fill side. The useful result is a new highlight path, not a global exposure slider.
Change light direction, not the subject
AI Photo Relight
Upload one photo, choose soft front, side, or warm natural light, then compare the result before you download.
Lighting is a separate decision
The workbench does not enlarge, colorize, or swap the background. You pick a lighting preset so highlights and shadows can be judged against the original frame.
Lighting studio
Relight Your Photo Online
Upload one photo, choose a lighting preset, and inspect the split view before downloading.
01 / SourceOne image
JPG, PNG, or WebP · maximum 5 MB
02 / Relight256–4,096 px per side · ≤ 16 MP
Source—
Processing1K · auto aspect
20 credits for this runView pricing
Output preview
Your relit photo will appear here
Upload a supported photo to verify its size and prepare one lighting change.
Illustrative AI-generated examples, not measured production outputs. Actual results vary.
Backlit portrait to soft front light
Flat product photo to side light
Cool indoor scene to warm natural light
What changes
What AI Photo Relight Changes
A lighting change is useful only when the subject, logos, and composition stay recognizable. This pass is aimed at direction, contrast, and color temperature, while the original remains the reference for every judgment.
Subject, logos, and composition stay put
The brief is instructed to keep identity, clothing, printed text, product labels, background content, crop, and pose. Relight is not a background changer and not a new product generator.
Glass, metal, and mixed indoor light
Reflective, transparent, and highly specular surfaces can refuse a clean lighting change. Mixed indoor bulbs can also leave a color cast. Inspect those materials before you keep the file.
Practical workflow
How to Relight a Photo Online
Start with the highest honest source you have. Keep the original file. Treat the generated image as a viewing derivative until you have compared every face, logo, and edge.
- 01
Upload one supported photo
Choose a JPG, PNG, or WebP file up to 5 MB, with each side from 256 to 4,096 pixels and no more than 16 megapixels.
- 02
Choose one lighting preset
Soft front light is the default. Side light adds directional contrast. Warm natural light warms an indoor or mixed scene without asking you to invent a new location.
- 03
Run one tracked relight
Sign in, confirm the fixed cost of 20 credits, and start one tracked job. There is no 3D light widget because this first version does not accept lighting coordinates.
- 04
Compare before downloading
Drag the split view across faces, labels, glass, and repeating patterns. Download only when the lighting moved and the subject still agrees with the source.
Lighting cases
Judge the Lighting Against the Original
These illustrative, AI-generated examples show common lighting problems; they are not measured outputs or a performance benchmark for the production relight service. Actual results vary, so inspect your result against its source.
Backlit portrait to soft front light
A portrait with a bright window behind the subject and a dark face. Soft front light should recover facial modeling while keeping hair, clothing, and the room behind the person recognizable.
Flat product photo to side light
A catalog still with even, lifeless illumination. Side light should carve form on the package or object while keeping the logo, label text, and package shape readable.
Cool indoor scene to warm natural light
An interior with mixed bulbs and a cool cast. Warm natural light should shift color temperature on the existing room rather than invent a sunset location or a new window.
What Relight Can and Cannot Promise
This tool changes lighting by generating a new image from your source and a closed lighting brief. It is not a physically simulated 3D light in a scene graph. When glass, chrome, water, or missing highlight information cannot support the requested direction, the result may look globally brighter or fail to move shadows. That is a limit, not a hidden slider.
Keep the original file. If a face, logo, or product label drifted, discard the result. Reflective and transparent objects are not guaranteed. Use a dedicated background changer only when you actually want a new environment.
Privacy, Storage, and Deletion
Upload only images you have the right and consent to process. Signed-in relight tasks and results can appear in My Creations so a task can be recovered after a temporary connection problem.
The current storage backend has no automatic expiry for uploaded or generated image objects. Delete in My Creations calls the authenticated creation-delete endpoint and soft-deletes the task record from account history; it does not delete the underlying image object or provider copy. Review the Privacy Policy and contact support before uploading especially sensitive portraits or commercial packaging.
Choose the right lighting workflow
AI Photo Relight vs ClipDrop Relight vs Adobe Lightroom
The best option depends on whether you need a browser preset, a dedicated 3D light control, or a traditional tone workflow with sliders you already trust.
Banana Pro AI Photo Relight
- Best for
- Portraits and product photos that need a new light direction without a second desktop app
- Control
- Three closed presets, before-and-after review, tracked download
- Tradeoff
- No 3D light gizmo in this first version; reflective surfaces are not guaranteed
ClipDrop Relight
- Best for
- Operators who want to place a virtual light in 3D around a cut-out subject
- Control
- Interactive light position, color, and intensity on a dedicated relight surface
- Tradeoff
- A different product surface and account; not the same as a full catalog editor
Adobe Lightroom
- Best for
- Photographers who already work in a slider-based develop workflow
- Control
- Exposure, white balance, and local masking on the original RAW or JPEG
- Tradeoff
- Tone tools do not invent a new key-light direction the way a dedicated relight pass does
Tool specifications
A Focused Relight Path
The workbench accepts one JPG, PNG, or WebP image up to 5 MB. Each side must be between 256 and 4,096 pixels, and the image must stay within 16 megapixels. One run costs 20 credits and returns a 1K result at an automatic aspect ratio.
Processing may infer plausible lighting on surfaces the camera never recorded, so the result is not a forensic lighting diagram or a substitute for a studio session. By using the tool, you confirm that your upload complies with the Terms of Service.
Product context: dedicated relight products such as ClipDrop Relight expose a 3D light control. This page uses closed lighting presets instead. Lightroom remains a slider-based develop tool rather than a light-direction generator. Reviewed by the Banana Pro AI product team · Last reviewed: 2026-09-11.
Purpose-bound upload verification
Fail-closed source safety review
Server-owned lighting briefs
Idempotent task recovery
Before-and-after split comparison
Download after visual inspection
Continue editing
Related Photo Tools
Keep lighting, scene, and enhancement as separate choices. Relight first when the composition is already right, then move to a broader edit only when the source calls for it.
Questions
AI Photo Relight FAQ
Clear answers about lighting presets, source requirements, reflective materials, and credit use.
What does AI Photo Relight change?
It is instructed to change light direction, highlight placement, shadow shape, and color temperature on one uploaded photo. Subject, logos, background content, and composition should stay recognizable. Inspect the split view because inferred lighting is not a studio measurement.
Does this replace ClipDrop Relight or Lightroom?
No. ClipDrop Relight is a dedicated 3D light control for placing a virtual light around a subject. Adobe Lightroom is a slider-based develop workflow. This page is a browser preset tool for one photo at a fixed credit cost.
Can it relight glass, chrome, or water?
Not reliably. Reflective and transparent materials often keep the original highlights or invent unhelpful glare. Review those surfaces carefully and keep the original when the lighting does not move cleanly.
How much does one relight cost?
One relight uses 20 credits. The workbench shows the cost and your remaining balance before submission, and the existing task system avoids restarting a paid job when a connection is interrupted.
Which photos work best?
Portraits with a dark face, product stills with flat lighting, and interiors with a cool mixed-light cast are practical candidates. Tiny faces, destroyed highlights, and heavy compression usually need a better source or a different tool.
Keep the original. Inspect the lighting.
Relight a Copy of Your Photo
Start with one clear source, review the fixed 20-credit cost, and compare the relit result against the original before you keep it.
Open the relight workbench