How to Use AI Product Lighting in Promeo

Promeo's AI Product Lighting adds lighting to a photo you have already taken, which is exactly what you want when the product looks great and the picture looks flat. You drop a light straight onto the image, drag it to wherever the glow should come from, then dial in its color, how hard it hits, and how far away it reads.

A photo that is already taken is not finished, and this is the tool that makes that point. Promeo lists its photo tools as cards on the Home screen, several of them showing a small before and after. Scroll to AI Product Lighting and click the card. It opens on a screen of its own with nothing to set up, which tells you something useful straight away: there is no project, no template, and no settings pass to get through first.

Your own shot is the whole point, so this screen keeps it short: drag a file onto the panel that says Drag your photo here, or click to import, or click it and browse. Promeo also keeps three sample photos underneath, a perfume bottle, a camera pouch, and a bottle on a table, and they are worth one click if you want to feel out what the sliders do before you commit to your own image. Ours was a phone photo of a perfume bottle on a dark table, lit by nothing in particular.

Here is the fun part. Promeo starts you with one light, and it appears as a numbered marker sitting on the photo itself, so placing a light means dragging a circle to where the light should be coming from rather than typing angles into a box. The panel on the left holds that light's settings: Color for its temperature, Strength for how hard it lands, and Distance for how far off it reads. We parked light 1 low and slightly in front of the bottle at a strength of 60 and a distance of 80, which is what gives the glass that lit-from-within look. Drag the marker a little and watch the preview keep up.

One light gives you drama. Two gives you shape. Click Add Light and a second marker appears for you to drag; we sent ours out to the left of the bottle so the shadow on the far side lifted a little instead of going black. Every light you add keeps its own settings, so the second one does not inherit the first one's strength.

Under the light list sits Ambient, which is the light in the whole scene rather than one beam. Click its Color swatch and either take one of the preset dots or type a hex value straight in. Ours was #FFFFEC, a barely-there cream that takes the gray out of the wall behind the bottle without tipping the whole shot yellow. When it looks right, click Done.