№ 11 — Change weather · Light & sky
Change weather — a different sky than the one you got.
Convert a rainy or overcast exterior into a clear or golden-hour frame, with the building’s wet surfaces and reflections handled accordingly.
BeforeAfter
Change weather · rain to clear
The problem
The shoot day was rain. Re-shooting takes a week. Change weather rebuilds the frame as a clear or golden-hour exterior, drying the surfaces, removing the puddles, restoring believable shadow direction.
The standard
- Surfaces dry — wet roof, wet drive, wet path all return to their dry materials.
- Reflection in wet surfaces is removed and the underlying material reconstructed.
- Shadow direction matches the new sun.
The handoff
Output paired with the original and with optional sky variants.
Companion tools
Pairs with sky replacement when the building is fine but the sky is wrong, or with day-to-dusk when you also want a dusk version.
When Vesta runs it
Used as a single-step move outside any bundle.
Field notes
Read the studio note on rain-to-clear conversions that do not look like rain-to-clear conversions.
Where this lives
Part of the Light & sky entry in the tool catalog. When several tools in this group apply to the same listing, hand the listing to Vesta and let her plan the run.
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