Light Depth
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)
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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