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Watch: A window throws in a slanting block of light: the bright part lands on the person and the table, the rest of the room naturally darkens, and dust in the air lights up. Window light is soft but has direction.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Image · Lighting

Window Light窗光

Natural light from a window on one side: one side bright, the other softly dark.

Category: Lighting
Group: Basics
Medium: Image
Library: 107 / 166

Want to merge it with other techniques (shot size, lighting, style…) into one full prompt? Click “Add to combo”, then pick one from each of the other terms.

Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

Portraits, still lifes, cafés and home scenes.

Prompt template

single window light from one side, softly falling off into shadow, crisp light patch from the frame, background slightly darker.

Sample prompt · generate an image directly

The technique comes first, followed by the subject, scene, details and aspect ratio. Paste it straight into an image model and swap in your own subject.

Window light from one side, the person lit on one side with a soft falloff on the other, the window frame casting a crisp patch of light on the wall, the background slightly dark. An old-fashioned study in the afternoon: an old man in glasses leans back in a rattan chair by the window reading the newspaper, fine dust floating in the sunlight. 4:5, a crisp shape to the light patch, detail kept in the shadows.

Common pitfalls

Both sides bright, losing the sense of direction.
Window light too hard, leaving ugly shadows on the face.

Parameter tips

Say which side the window is on; write “soft falloff, detail kept” for the dark side or it goes dead black.