Blender 4.2 LTS – 5.x

Your render isn’t bad.
It’s lit too evenly.

Light It Up Pro – Blender Lighting Presets: 37 Studio & Portrait Rigs + 20 Volumetrics

One click builds a real, editable studio lighting rig around your subject — then hands you the controls.

$49

Instant download · Native Blender lights, nothing locked · New release · be the first to review

37Lighting presets

20Volumetric presets

13Animation effects

4Master controls

The problem

Presets that give you a look, then take away control.

Most lighting add-ons either place one light at a time — which is the slow part you already know how to do — or bake a look into something you can’t take apart. Light It Up does neither.

It builds a real rig

Native Blender lights in their own collection, parented to an empty you can move. Nothing is locked, nothing is driven, nothing hides in a custom node group.

It survives your pipeline

A .blend lit with this renders on a farm, or on a colleague’s machine, with the add-on nowhere in sight. Everything it makes is ordinary Blender data.

It stays editable

Four master controls recompute from the preset’s own authored values — push intensity to 3.0 and back to 1.0 and you land exactly where you started.

The same scene under Blender's default point light, then under one Light It Up preset — **Left:** Blender’s own default light, at its startup position. **Right:** one click. Nothing else in the scene changed.

What’s in it

A lighting system, not a folder of looks.

Light it37 presets across Portrait, Product, Cinematic, Environment and Studio Advanced — including every classic portrait pattern: Rembrandt, loop, split, butterfly, short and broad.
Shape itIntensity, colour temperature, key/fill ratio and orbit, live and absolute. Fit To Subject rescales the whole rig — distance, light size and power together — so a 10cm product gets the same lighting character as a person.
Match a lookDrop in a reference photograph and it measures key direction, contrast ratio, colour temperature and softness, then builds a starting rig from them.
Fill the air20 volumetric atmospheres in four categories, with density and container scale as sliders. Density scales with your scene, so it works at human scale rather than only in a test file.
Move it13 animated lighting effects — flicker, pulse, strobe and more — written as real F-curves you can open in the Graph Editor and edit.
Ship itLighting snapshots you can switch between, rig-level light linking, batch apply across many objects, and one-click light groups with AOV output wired into the compositor.
Keep itSave your own presets. They live outside the Blender version folder, so updating Blender — or running two versions side by side — can’t delete them.

All 37 lighting presets shown as labelled thumbnails — All 37, rendered on the same subject so you can compare them honestly — and every one of these tiles is in the add-on’s own panel.

The six classic portrait lighting patterns, each labelled — **The six classics, one click each.** Rembrandt, loop, split, butterfly, short and broad — the patterns portrait photographers actually name.

Two things nothing else does

The parts you can’t get elsewhere.

Lighting matched from an image

Four measurements over the pixels — key direction, contrast, colour temperature and softness — turned into a starting rig, with the panel telling you what it read so you can argue with it.

It reads a lit subject against a background: a portrait, a product shot, a character render. It’s a starting point, not a solve.

Twenty volumetric atmosphere presets shown as labelled thumbnails — Every preset in the add-on ships with a rendered tile, so you pick a look by looking at it.

An HDRI library for the HDRIs you already own

Every other HDRI tool is a downloader for somebody else’s collection. This one scans the folders you point it at and shows what is already on your drives as a thumbnail grid.

No network, no account, works offline. It even sets aside the normal and roughness maps sitting alongside them.

The same subject lit by three different HDRI environments — One environment swapped for another, from HDRIs already on your own drive.

Before you buy

What it doesn’t do.

Better you read this now than find it afterwards.

Reference matching has a scope

It reads a lit subject against a background. Wide establishing shots and backlit silhouettes are outside what it can measure, and it can’t always tell when it’s been handed one. The rig it gives you is still usually faster than starting from nothing.

Light groups and AOV export are Cycles only

Cycles only creates a light group’s pass after a render has actually run with that group present — so on a fresh scene the first press wires nothing and says so. Render once, press again. Light linking works in both Cycles and EEVEE.

Snapshots replace your live rigs when you switch

That’s what makes switching instant, and nothing is deleted until the snapshot has been read back successfully. But a snapshot records lighting rigs only — it is not a scene save and won’t restore your world, materials or camera.

A library, not a list of names

Thirty-seven identical grey buttons is a list. Every preset carries a rendered tile instead, so the panel shows you the look rather than describing it.

Your own saved presets appear in the same grid, and live outside the Blender version folder so an update can’t delete them.

The Light It Up panel inside Blender, showing preset thumbnails — The panel itself, in Blender.

Product work, at product scale

Bright field and dark field are glass techniques, not lighting styles — they are about what sits behind the object.

And Fit To Subject rescales the whole rig — distance, light size and power together — so a 10cm bottle is lit like a 10cm bottle instead of like a person.

Product lighting presets applied to glass and metal subjects — The same system, pointed at glass and metal.

Compatibility

Tested, not assumed.

Item	Detail
Blender versions	4.2 LTS · 4.5 LTS · 5.1 · 5.2
Render engines	Cycles · EEVEE
Platforms	Windows · macOS · Linux
Licence	GPL — the source ships with it
Network access	None. Everything runs offline.

Already own Light It Up Pro v2?

Version 3 installs under a different module name, so it sits beside your v2 rather than replacing it. If the old one is still enabled you’ll see the old panel and think nothing changed. Disable and remove the old “Light It Up Pro” in Preferences → Add-ons, then install v3 and restart. Version 3 also detects the old one and offers a one-click Disable button.

Stop placing lights one at a time.

37 presets, 20 atmospheres, reference matching and an HDRI library — in one add-on that leaves everything editable.

$49

Instant download · Blender 4.2 LTS and up · Cycles & EEVEE