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Portrait-mode photos. When your iPhone takes one, it also saves how far away every part of the picture is, and Rake uses that depth to light the scene the way a lamp in the room would have. In the Photos app, those are the photos that show the ƒ depth control when you tap Edit. Portrait selfies taken with the front camera carry depth too.
Any other photo works as well: choose Any photo, and Rake estimates its depth on your device. The light still wraps around the subject, but an estimate is not a measurement, so shadows are less exact. The relit screen tells you when depth was estimated.
It is filtered to photos that carry depth, because those are the ones it can use as they are. If a photo you expected is missing, it was not taken in Portrait mode, or it lost its depth on the way to this device. Every photo appears under Any photo.
The depth was stripped on the way. AirDrop set to Most Compatible converts a photo to a plain JPEG and leaves the depth behind. Before sending, tap Options at the top of the share sheet and set Format to Current; the photo then arrives with its depth.
K, the key, is the main light: it sets the direction of the light and makes the shadows. F, the fill, is softer and usually on the other side, and lifts the shadows the key made without adding its own. R, the rim, sits behind your subject and draws a bright edge along hair and shoulders, which separates them from the background.
Tap a circle, or a name under Lights, to choose a light. Drag on the photo to move it, and pinch to pull it toward you or push it back behind your subject.
The light is only as right as the depth under it. A shadow where there should be none, or a face lit through the hair, usually means the depth is off in that spot, and that is most common with an estimate. Using a Portrait photo of the same scene fixes it more often than moving the light does. A smaller light makes the shadow edge crisper and easier to judge; a larger one hides small errors.
Because the wall is in front of it. A rim light sits just behind your subject, and anything further back — a wall, a door — faces it and catches its light, exactly as it would in a real room. Lower its Power, or pull it forward with Depth until it sits level with your subject, to keep the edge light and lose the wall.
It sets how much of the photo's own light is kept. At 0% only the light you placed falls on the photo, and everything it does not reach goes dark. At 100% your lights add to the photo as it was shot. Around 30% is a good place to start.
Tap the share button and choose Save Image. The photo is saved at full resolution. The first time, iOS asks whether Rake may add photos to your library; that permission is add-only, so Rake still cannot see the rest of your library. You can also send the photo straight to Messages, Mail or any other app from the same sheet.
Hold Compare at any time to see the photo as it was shot.
How Rake works opens by itself the first time you relight a photo. After that it is behind the ? button beside the photo, and the How Rake works link on the start screen.
No. Everything, including estimating depth for a photo that has none, happens on your device, with no connection. There are no accounts, no credits and no subscription.
Nothing. It makes no network calls, so there is nothing it could report. It sees only the photo you pick, keeps it in memory while you relight it, and never uploads it. The details are in the privacy policy.
Rake runs on iPhone and iPad, held upright or on its side; on its side, the controls move to the left of the photo. It is not offered on Mac or Apple Vision Pro.
Email the address below with as much detail as you can: what you were doing, what you expected, and what happened instead. Say whether it was a Portrait photo or Any photo, and which look and lights you were using. Screenshots help a lot, and so does the photo itself if you are comfortable sharing it.
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