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Blender Add-on
ChromaLight
Image-Based Lighting Automatic Light Setup Colour Grading
Instantly match your lighting to any image. ChromaLight analyses your reference image and extracts its colour palette to automatically generate or update your scene lights and world background — giving your render a cohesive mood and professional grade.
Blender
3.6 – 5.0
Platforms
Windows • macOS • Linux
Includes
Palette extraction • Light creation • World sync
Overview
ChromaLight uses image colour data to design lighting that fits your reference perfectly. Generate multiple lights from an image palette or update existing lights and world settings to reflect your reference tone. Ideal for look development, colour matching, or creating cinematic lighting setups inspired by real photos and concept art.
Extract Palette from Any Image
Automatically sample key colours and brightness levels from your reference image.
Auto Light Generation
Create lights using extracted colours to form balanced, realistic illumination.
Update Existing Lights
Adapt your scene lighting dynamically to match new palettes or references.
World Background Sync
Automatically adjust world background colour to maintain tone consistency.
Mood-Based Lighting
Get cinematic, painterly lighting by referencing colour compositions from art or film.
Editable Output
Fine-tune light strength, hue, and world exposure after generation.
Updates
- Version 1.0.2
- Added ability to save palettes from reference image and quickly recall them
- Version 1.0.1
- Slight UI update
- Version 1.0.0
- First release
Adjust and amend to create new lighting moods and concept art
- Lighting extracted from real photographs and concept art.
- Works with your current lights.
- Perfect for environment artists, look-dev, and colour stylization.
Match your scene to your mood.
Transform images into immersive lighting setups with one click.
Create palette templates from reference images.
Quickly save and recall previous image palettes.
