product-relightinglisted

# Relighting Product Photos `edit_image` supports relighting and colour grading, which means you can change the light on a shot you already like rather than rolling a new generation and losing the composition. That distinction is the whole value: **relighting preserves what worked; regenerating gambles it.** ## `edit_image` vs regenerating ``` Regenerate: new prompt, new roll — composition, angle and framing all change edit_image: same image, the lighting changed ``` If the composition is right and only the light is wrong, `edit_image` is the correct tool. Regenerating with "…but warmer" gives you a different shot that also happens to be warmer. Same logic as upscaling, angle adjustment and inpainting — the edit tools exist so you don't have to re-roll a good frame. See `image-model-selection`. ## What relighting fixes | Problem | Relight to | |---|---| | Flat, shadowless, lifeless | Soft directional light with visible falloff | | Harsh on-camera flash | Diffused light, softer shadow | | Mixed colour temperature | One consistent temperature | | Wrong mood for the channel | Warm and soft, or cool and clinical | | Doesn't match the rest of the set | The set's look, stated verbatim | | Product form reads badly | Light angled to reveal shape | | Dull, no dimension | Slight rim or edge light | **Flat lighting is the most common fault in supplied product photography** and the easiest to fix. A product lit from directly front-on has no shadow, so it has no perceived for