What relighting does
Lighting is usually fixed the moment you press the shutter. Relighting changes that. It rewrites the direction, softness, color, and mood of the light in a finished photo, and the shadows and highlights that come with it, so a frame shot in flat midday light can read as golden hour or a moody studio key.
How it works: match the light, not a filter
This is not a brightness slider or a warm filter. You give the engine a reference whose light you want, and it reads how that light actually falls, where it comes from, how hard or soft it is, what color it carries, and reconstructs that on your photo. Because it rebuilds the light rather than tinting the pixels, the result has real direction and dimension.
The subject stays locked
Relighting only touches the light. Faces, pose, expression, clothing, and composition are preserved exactly. That identity-lock is the core promise of Department of Vibe: change everything around the subject, never the subject.