Lighting Setups — prompt skill for lighting
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11 lighting setups — golden hour to Rembrandt — each with a named source, direction and quality.
- Type: Prompt · Lighting
- Slug:
craft-lighting-setups - Status: beta
- Publisher: varg (varg, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills
- Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, Any MCP client, varg Studio
What it does
Eleven lighting cards that always name a source and a direction instead of a mood word: golden hour, blue hour, low-key, high-key, Rembrandt, hard side light, rim light, silhouette, soft window light, practicals and volumetric light. Aliases include Higgsfield Cinema Studio presets (Silhouette, Contre-jour, Practicals, Window) and the terms Google, Kling and Wan document ('rembrandt lighting', 'subtle god rays', 'rim light'). Light belongs in the generation prompt; pair with craft-color-looks for the grade.
Use when
- Setting the mood of a shot through light
- A generated face looks flat or the subject merges with the background
Not for
- Relighting an existing clip (use a relight model)
- Color grading after generation (craft-color-looks)
Install
Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills
Models it drives: veo_3_1, veo_3_1_fast, veo_3_1_lite, omni_flash_1_1, kling_v3, kling_v3_standard, seedance_2_5, seedance_2, minimax_h3_max, nano_banana_2_1, flux_3_image
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/craft-lighting-setups.mp4 — Rim light from a hard backlight: Proog steps into a blown-out doorway and the light behind him wraps his head, shoulders and hands in a glowing edge against the dark curtains, with only a soft fill on his face. Elephants Dream (2006) 01:10.6-01:18.6, Wikimedia Commons 1080p transcode, no audio. (credit: Elephants Dream (CC BY 2.5) — © 2006 Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute | elephantsdream.org, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephants_Dream_(2006).webm)