Portrait relight guide

Three looks

Each picture below was made in Portrait relight from its two sample pictures, with a preset and Replay, and caught while the light was moving. The table lists the buttons pressed. A run moves fast, so a picture you save will be a different moment.

Bronze idol

The same jewelled figure lit from below with bright, tight, metal-coloured glints on the face, pearls and halo — Bronze idol partway through: tight, tinted glints on the raised detail.

Press Bronze idol under Presets, then Replay at the top of the panel.

Metallic at 0.85 tints the shine with the picture's own colours, and shininess 60 keeps it to small spots, so raised detail reads like cast metal. The light starts higher than Raking stone's and turns a quarter of the way round.

Setting	Value
Presets	Bronze idol
Load and save	Replay

Move Metallic to 0 to see the same shine in white.

Candle orbit

The same jewelled figure lit low from the left, the pearls and the textured face shining on their left sides — Candle orbit halfway: a low light from the left picks out every bead.

Press Candle orbit under Presets, then Replay at the top of the panel.

The light sits low, so each bump throws a shadow, and it goes almost all the way round the picture in 3 seconds, the longest run of any preset. Halfway it has come round to the left. Metallic at 0.6 tints the shine with the picture's own colours.

Setting	Value
Presets	Candle orbit
Load and save	Replay

Raise Key elevation to lift the light and soften the relief.

Sweep cut

A crowned woman before tall spires in the upper half, the jewelled figure's pearls and robe in the lower half, a pale band of light between them — Sweep cut halfway: a band of light with picture B behind it and picture A ahead.

Press Sweep cut under Presets, then Replay at the top of the panel.

The wipe switch is on, so the run crosses from A to B. Both pictures are lit by the same light, and a bright line rides the front of the band. The band travels towards the light and turns as the light turns.

Setting	Value
Presets	Sweep cut
Load and save	Replay

Press Replay once more after the run ends to carry B back into A.