Light
Shape highlights, shadows, elevation, and directional trails as virtual light interacting with the image.
Choose a tool
Use Glow for highlight halos, Spot Light for local illumination, Long Shadow for projected silhouettes, Light Elevation for brightness-based relief, or Motion Trails for streaks constructed from the current image.
In this section
Glow
Bloom bright regions into tight cores, soft halos, diffusion haze, or warm film halation.
Spot Light
Place a coloured spotlight with falloff and blend controls over the current image.
Long Shadow
Extrude image alpha or luminance into long directional shadows for graphic depth.
Light Elevation Map
Treat luminance as a height field and relight it with a movable virtual light.
Light Trails
Smear bright pixels along a direction for single-frame long-exposure streaks.
Use it in the app
Open a project and find Optics → Light in the effects picker. Choose the specific tool, then select its layer in Layers to open the Effect Panel. Related modes may share a mode dropdown at the top of that panel. The pages below explain source requirements, first adjustments and conditional controls for each tool.