Stop guessing at lighting.One click puts a finished, professional lighting rig around your object - the setups photographers actually use, by name - and then hands you every light to adjust.Everything is in one add-on. 37 lighting presets, 20 volumetric atmospheres, 13 animated lighting effects, lighting matched from a reference image, an HDRI library for the HDRIs you already own, and a pipeline layer with light groups, AOV export, snapshots and light linking. There is no upgrade tier and nothing held back - this page sells the whole thing.Why do my renders look flat?Almost always the same reason, and it has nothing to do with your render settings: the scene is lit too evenly. Everything is in the light, so nothing has shape.A photograph that reads well has a hierarchy. A key light that dominates and decides where the shadows fall. A fill that lifts those shadows part of the way, never all of it. A rim that separates the subject from the background. The relationship between them - the ratio - is the entire look. Rembrandt lighting is a key at roughly 45 degrees with a fill weak enough to leave a triangle of light on the far cheek. Weaken the key or raise the fill and it stops being Rembrandt and becomes a slightly moody portrait.Finding that ratio by hand is not hard. It is tedious, and you have to rediscover it in every scene. That is what this add-on gives you in one click.What does it do?Select your object. Pick a look. You get a real Blender lighting rig - key, fill and rim lights placed around your subject and aimed at it, sized and coloured for the look you chose, in its own collection so it never tangles with the rest of your scene.Then take it apart. Every light is an ordinary Blender light. Nothing is locked, nothing is driven, nothing is hidden behind a custom node group. Move the key with G. Change the colour in the light properties. It is your scene.What's included?Read it as the order you would actually work in - light it, shape it, fill the air, move it, ship it. That is the argument for one add-on instead of four.1 · Light it - 37 presets in five categories Portrait (12) - the six classic patterns by name: Rembrandt, loop, split, butterfly, short and broad. Plus three-point, clamshell, rim, side key, cross light and window light. Product (9) - bright field and dark field for glass, gradient hero, top-down flat lay, three-point product, reflective backlight, ring light, glamour cube and softbox diffused. Cinematic (7) - dramatic, low key, high key, noir shadow, neon / cyberpunk, horror top and uplight / firelight. Environment (5) - golden hour, sunset, cool moonlight, overcast soft and sun streak. Studio Advanced (4) - four-light studio, soft triad, diffuse dome wrap and hard top fill. Every preset is a rendered thumbnail in the panel, not a row of identical text buttons, so you pick the look you want by looking at it. Switch to the compact list whenever you already know what you are reaching for.2 · Shape it - four master controls, live Intensity - the whole rig up or down, holding the ratio between the lights. Colour temperature - in Kelvin, neutral at 6500K. Warm the key without hand-editing four colour pickers. Key-to-fill ratio - the contrast dial. This is the one that decides whether a render reads as dramatic or flat, and the one that is most miserable to adjust by hand. Orbit - swing the whole rig around the subject to find the angle. The sliders are absolute, not incremental. Take intensity to 3.0 and back to 1.0 and you are exactly where you started, to the last decimal. That sounds like a detail until the fifth time you have nudged a value and lost the look you had.Fit To Subject scales the entire rig to whatever you selected, so a 12cm product gets product-sized lighting instead of a softbox ten times its own size. And presets layer rather than replace, so a key rig and a rim rig can be two separate rigs in one scene with their own controls.3 · Match a look - from a reference image, or from an HDRILighting from a reference image. Point it at a portrait, a product shot or a character render and it measures four things off the pixels - the key direction, the contrast ratio, the colour temperature and how soft the light is - then builds a starting rig from them and tells you in plain language what it read: "key from the left above, 4.3:1 contrast, 3100K, hard". It is a starting point, and the panel says so. It reads a lit subject against a background; wide establishing shots and backlit silhouettes are out of scope, and it says that too.An HDRI library for the HDRIs you already own. Every other HDRI add-on downloads someone else's collection. This one scans your own drives and shows what is already there as a grid of thumbnails, one click to light with. No network, no account, no download. It also tells the difference between an environment map and a roughness map that happens to be saved as an EXR.World lighting controls - rotate the environment, and dim the visible backdrop to nothing while the HDRI still lights the scene at full strength. Those are two separate numbers here, which a single Background node cannot express.4 · Fill the air - 20 volumetric presetsIn four categories: atmospheric moods, environmental elements, fantasy and stylised, and cinematic enhancements. Morning fog, night haze, sunset glow, industrial haze, battlefield smoke, city smog, stage smoke, ghostly fog and more.Density scales to the size of your scene automatically, because volumetric density is measured per unit of distance and a value tuned in a small test file is invisible at human scale. You also get the two controls that matter afterwards - fog container size and density as sliders - and a one-click Remove Fog that takes the container, the dust rig and the force field with it rather than leaving them in your outliner.5 · Move it - 13 animated lighting effectsFlicker, pulse, strobe, RGB cycle, colour fade, noise flicker, intensity bounce, orbital movement, follow target, area sweep, breathing, swarm and fade. They are applied to a rig rather than to whatever you happen to have selected, so they hit the lights you meant - and one button clears the animation off a rig again.6 · Ship it - a pipeline layer, for lighting that has to survive past the first render Light groups and AOV export - one button gives every rig its own light group wired to a multilayer EXR output, so you can rebalance the lighting in comp instead of re-rendering. By hand that is about forty steps for three rigs, and one typo renders a black pass with no error. Cycles only, and the panel says so before you press it. Lighting snapshots - save the whole lighting state as a named version and switch between versions live in the viewport. Stored as data rather than as duplicated rigs, so three variants of a six-light setup is not eighteen lights in your outliner. Light linking - a whole rig lights one object and ignores everything else, as one control instead of one collection per lamp. Works in EEVEE and Cycles. Batch apply - one preset onto many subjects at once, each rig built around its own object's bounds and orientation. 7 · Keep it - save your own presets, lighting and fogBuild a rig you like, save it, and it appears in the panel beside the shipped ones. The same goes for a fog you have tuned. They are stored outside the add-on folder, so a future update cannot delete them - which is exactly what the previous version did, and why they are not stored there any more.Does it work with EEVEE?Yes. Every lighting preset, every volumetric preset and the light linking work in both EEVEE and Cycles. Light groups and AOV export are a Cycles feature, and the panel labels them as such before you press the button rather than quietly rendering nothing.Which Blender versions are supported?Blender 4.2 LTS, 4.5 LTS, 5.1 and 5.2. Every release is run against all four before it ships - not "should work", actually run. Blender moved the compositor in 5.0 and removed a core animation API in 4.4, and both of those silently broke add-ons that were only ever tested on one version.How is this different from a light-placement add-on?Placement tools help you position a light. This gives you the finished look, and then lets you take it apart.And the named patterns are not approximations. Each one is verified by rendering it and measuring the actual key-to-shadow ratio across the subject's face, with the ordering asserted automatically - Rembrandt is more dramatic than short, which is more dramatic than broad, which is more dramatic than butterfly. A future tweak that flattens Rembrandt fails the build. No other lighting add-on makes that claim, because measuring it is work.Can I still light by hand?Yes, and that is the whole point. Every preset is an ordinary Blender light rig with nothing locked. Use it as a starting point and throw away what you do not want.Upgrading from version 2Version 3 installs as a new add-on rather than replacing version 2. Before installing, go to Preferences → Add-ons, find the old Light It Up Pro, disable it and press Remove. Then install the version 3 zip and restart Blender. If you skip this you will still be looking at the old panel, and reasonably conclude the update did nothing.Version 3 also tells you: if it finds the old one still enabled, it says so at the top of the panel and offers to switch it off for you.Requirements and supportBlender 4.2 LTS or newer. Windows, macOS and Linux. No network access, no account and no licence key - it works offline and it always will. Updates are free for life. Questions answered through the Superhive message system.