# Light Depth

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**Light Depth** adds natural depth and dimensional lighting to your photos — transforming flat, evenly lit images into scenes that feel alive.

It automatically mimics the classic *Dodge and Burn* technique, letting you sculpt light and shadow with just a few intuitive sliders. The result is effortless, realistic volume that enhances portraits, landscapes, and product shots alike.

The tool understands distance and structure within your image using **AI-powered depth mapping**. It adds light where it naturally belongs, deepens shadows, lifts highlights, and restores a sense of space and atmosphere — as if you were painting with light, but without the manual work.

You can use it to:

* Give portraits more contour and warmth
* Add distance and dimension to landscapes
* Define shape and direction in product photography

Light Depth helps your images breathe and tell a more vivid story.

#### Main Controls

As soon as you move the **Amount** slider above zero, the effect activates and updates in real time. Use the on-screen handles to fine-tune the light’s position, size, and wrap — just like placing a soft spotlight exactly where you want it.

| **Amount**          | Adjusts the overall strength of the depth effect.                                 |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Depth Mask**      | Defines where the main light center falls using AI depth mapping.                 |
| **Softness**        | Controls how smoothly light fades into shadow.                                    |
| **Warmth**          | Shifts the tone of the light from cool to warm.                                   |
| **Brightness Near** | Fine-tunes brightness in the foreground.                                          |
| **Warmth Near**     | Adjusts the color temperature in the *foreground* areas (closer to the viewer)    |
| **Brightness Far**  | Fine-tunes brightness in the background.                                          |
| **Warmth Far**      | Adjusts the color temperature in the *background* areas (further from the viewer) |

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Please note that the **Light Depth** tool has replaced the **Relight AI** tool, offering more adjustable light editing to enhance your edits even further.

The Relight AI tool adjustments you have applied to your images **are saved and can still be adjusted in the Edits section** of the image. The Relight AI edits are also saved in your custom Presets if you have created one.

The Relight Edit can be found here in the **Edit tab > Edits.**
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