Relighting, on iPhone and iPad
A Portrait photo carries the depth your iPhone measured when it took it. Rake reads that depth, works out the shape of the scene, and lets you place lights that wrap around your subject and cast real shadows.
How it works
A filter brightens pixels. Rake lights a surface: it knows how far away every part of the picture is, so the light falls off, wraps around a face and is blocked by whatever stands in its way.
Rembrandt, Butterfly, Split and Softbox — four classic portrait setups, placed around your subject in one tap. A look is a starting point; change any light and it is yours.
The key makes the shadows. The fill lifts them. The rim sits behind your subject and draws a bright edge along hair and shoulders.
Drag a light across the photo. Pinch to pull it toward you, or push it back behind your subject.
Power in stops, how far in front or behind it sits, its size — small for crisp shadows, large for soft ones — its warmth, and whether it casts shadows at all.
Hold Compare to see the photo as it was taken. Share saves or sends the relit photo at its full resolution.
Portrait photos relight most faithfully. Any other photo gets its depth estimated on your device; the light is convincing and the shadows are less exact.
On the bigger screen
On iPad the photo gets the screen, and the controls fold away when you want to judge the whole picture. Turn it on its side and they move to the left, out of the light's way.
New to lighting? A short guide opens the first time you relight a photo and explains every light and control. The support page answers the rest, including how to keep a photo's depth when you AirDrop it.
Photos come in through the system picker, one at a time, and are relit in memory on your device. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload to: no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no networking code. Free, with no credits, purchases or subscription.