Vividon launches Photoshop AI plugin to relight photos non-destructively

Bad light has always been the sort of mistake that looks simple until you try to fix it. Vividon, a Stockholm-based startup, opened early access on April 29 to a Photoshop plugin that promises to relight photos inside Adobe Photoshop without sending the file out to a separate app or flattening the edit.

The pitch is aimed squarely at photographers who know the pain of a shot that was almost there. Vividon says the plugin applies relighting as a fully editable, non-destructive layer, leaving the original image untouched. The company frames the tool as a way to shift lighting decisions into postproduction when the subject is strong but the light is wrong, or when there is no time, budget, or room for another setup. That makes it especially relevant for commercial work, where a missed key light can mean a costly reshoot.

The workflow is built to stay familiar. Vividon says users can work through a prompt-free visual interface, choose from a growing library of lighting looks, match the lighting from a reference image, or build a new setup from scratch. The preset library already includes more than 100 studio-quality options, with styles that range from German Expressionist and film noir to nightclub and Blade Runner-like looks. In practice, that could mean rescuing a portrait with dead, flat light or pushing a product shot toward a more polished campaign feel without rebuilding the scene.

Matching a reference frame may be the most practical feature for working photographers. Vividon says its Match function can extract the lighting signature from one image and apply it to another, which is the kind of shortcut that matters in brand campaigns, multi-image sets, and any job where consistency is the brief. The company says it built the plugin in close collaboration with retouch studios and photographers, naming Bildinstitutet, RBLS Studio, we.are.artista, Folkstudion, Fabian Öhrn in New York City, and Roy Rossovich in Los Angeles.

Vividon is also being unusually direct about where the tool can fail. Its limitations page says the underlying AI can produce visual artifacts and is still constrained by image restrictions. That matters because relighting is where AI editing can quickly drift from correction into something that looks manufactured. The company’s early-access pricing reflects that it is still pushing into the market: a free tier includes 30 credits, Creator costs $10 a month, Pro is $23 a month, and Studio is $55 a month, with annual billing discounts and a promise that founding users can lock in early-access pricing.

Relighting is no longer a side experiment. With Vividon joining a category that also includes Higgsfield AI’s Relight feature, the real question for photographers is no longer whether AI can move light around a frame, but when that move still looks like photography and when it starts to look like a demo.