Relight Your Portraits Using AI Virtual Lights – FREE AI Tool (Clipdrop AI)
In this video we will be seeing how to use Clipdrop Relight AI, a free tool that can help you add virtual lights to your portraits to fix any sort of lighting issues. Here’s the video:
Video Summary:
This tutorial demonstrates how to use the free AI tool Clip Drop to artificially add realistic virtual lighting to studio portraits. The host explains how to manually place, adjust, and color lights to solve common issues like a subject blending into a dark background, and also explores the tool’s preset lighting setups for quick creative effects.
Important Timestamps:
- 0:00 – Introduction to the tutorial and the Clip Drop “Relight” tool.
- 0:45 – Free plan limitation: high-res images must be downscaled to use the tool.
- 1:07 – Overview of the tool’s interface with Presets and manual controls.
- 1:38 – Explanation of the “Ambient Light” parameter for overall brightness.
- 2:11 – Identifying the problem: subject’s dark hair blends into the background.
- 2:44 – Adding the first light and introduction to the four key parameters.
- 4:16 – Key technique: Reducing “Distance” to move a light behind the subject.
- 5:30 – Using the “Color” parameter to simulate colored gel lighting.
- 6:01 – Adding a second light as a fill light to soften shadows.
- 7:06 – Exploring Presets for quick lighting setups like color gels.
- 8:12 – Toggling the light overlay preview to see the clean result.
- 8:24 – Using a free AI upscaling tool to restore image resolution after download.
Important Links
Link to the AI tool:
Link to download the image shown in the video:
Link to Upscale Media AI upscaler:
