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Drag real studio modifiers onto the photo you already took. Softboxes, strips, beauty dishes and flags, lit on your own pixels and exported in 16 bit. No generative AI. No reshoot.

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Before: the photographer's usual edit After: the same photo relit in StrobeDrop with a strip light above and one below the model

Drag the divider. Same pixels, same skin, same colour: only the light changed. What was done

From the community

One photographer's frame. Same pixels, twice.

A photographer in our community (who would rather stay anonymous) sent us this one. On the left, their usual edit. On the right, the same frame after ten minutes with StrobeDrop in the workflow. Nothing was retouched and no colour was pushed: two strip lights and a pair of catchlights did the rest. Drag the divider above and watch the light sculpt its way across the body.

Before

Their usual edit

  • Edited in a mainstream photo editor: a universal exposure change and moves on the light and dark channels
  • No skin retouching
  • No colour retouching
After

The same photo, relit in StrobeDrop

  • A strip light above the model (Set to light the model only without background)
  • A strip light below the model (Set to light the model only without background)
  • No skin retouching
  • No colour retouching
  • Catchlights brightened with a custom catchlight in both eyes
  • Notice how the light is sculpted across the body of the subject
How it works

Missed the key light? Just drop it.

StrobeDrop reads the shape of your frame once, then every light you place renders in real time on your own graphics card.

Drop in your photo

JPEG, TIFF or camera RAW. One quick read of depth, skin and detail, and you're lighting.

Drop a strobe on it

Softbox, octa, strip, beauty dish, snoot, flags. Aim, roll and resize, with real falloff and wrap.

Download your pixels

Native resolution, 16-bit TIFF or PNG. Finish in Lightroom or Photoshop like always, or send photos straight from them and get them back lit.

Pricing

Less reshoot. More repeat clients.

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