Meta: lighting

Lighting is when parts of a character or scene are made lighter than others in order to create a sense of three-dimensionality or make the main subject stand out from the background. This is generally used in opposition to flat colors or line art images which do not have lighting.

Not to be confused with

  • light - Any kind of light in an image, including lighting on a character, a visible light source, a light beam, etc. Note that an image can have light without lighting, such as a light beam in a line art image - see post #386781 on e621 for an example.
  • shaded - This is usually used in conjunction with lighting. It it actually the opposite of lighting - it is when parts of a scene or character are made darker in order to create a sense of three-dimensionality.
  • highlights (coloring) - This is a hair coloring effect completely unrelated to lighting.

Related tags

This tag implicates light (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: backlighting (learn more).

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