Lighting Tips For AI Art
Keywords are so important.
And it can be hard to understand what word triggers a type of image.
Especially with lighting, there are hundreds of options available.
Here are some of my favorite, and how they can affect your artwork:
☁️Crepuscular Rays
Crepuscular Rays create beams of light, and works effectively with scenes involving clouds or a similar atmosphere.
This gives a feeling of heaven, hope and even some sort of empathy.
If you mix this prompt with some other words, like sunset or sunrise, you can add colour into the rays as well!
🌅The Time of Day
Golden hour is a fantastic word to give warmth to a scene in the form of a rising sun.
This gives most AI Art tools the prompt to create beams of warm orange light over a scene.
On the other side, twilight hour gives the opposite.
It gives a feeling of stillness or emptiness, and it can be used with a lot of environments to provoke new emotions.
💡Accent Lighting
Accent lighting helps to highlight and isolate a particular object in a scene.
Not as powerful as a spotlight, accent lighting is much more softer and natural looking.
It can help to gently illustrate the main object in a scene and is useful if you want to draw the users attention.
🔦Dark Cave Lighting
Glow stick lighting can give a sense of adventure, and depending on the colour, the mood changes.
I've found this to be an effective way to show gloom, unnerve and suspense in a dark place.
This type of lighting is great for first person perspective shots, or to show a sense of suspense in a scene.
I really hope these have been useful, and let me know if there are others I should try out!
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