The Workflow Edit | Practical AI Tool Tutorial
How to Use Clipdrop Without Generic AI Instructions
When phone photos have bad lighting and blown-out windows, Clipdrop’s relight and cleanup tools can fix exposure and remove distractions — without needing Photoshop skills.
Dear Suzannah
Dear Suzannah, I took photos of our new office space on my phone but the lighting was terrible and the windows look like glowing white rectangles. I need these to look decent enough for the company newsletter.
Run the photos through relight and cleanup tools to fix exposure and remove blown-out windows.
The real use case
Fix bad lighting and remove distractions from phone photos of the office so they are usable in a company newsletter.
No prompt needed: use this workflow instead
This tool works through its interface, not a blank prompt. Follow these steps to get the result you need.
- Go to clipdrop.co and sign in. Open the ‘Relight’ tool from the tools menu.
- Upload your office photo by dragging it onto the canvas or clicking ‘Upload image.’ Wait for it to load.
- In the Relight tool, adjust the ambient light slider to brighten dark areas of the room. Add a directional light source from the left side to simulate window light filling the space. Adjust intensity until the room looks naturally lit, not overexposed.
- Download the relit image, then open the ‘Cleanup’ tool from the Clipdrop menu. Upload the relit version.
- Use the brush tool to paint over blown-out window areas, reflections, and any visible clutter (cables, trash bins, stray items). Click ‘Erase’ and wait for the tool to fill in the painted areas.
- Download the cleaned image. Open the ‘Image Resizer’ tool if you need a specific dimension for the newsletter — set width to [your newsletter’s image width, e.g. 1200px] and download the resized version.
- Open the final image at 100% zoom and check the formerly blown-out windows and cleaned areas for visible artifacts or smudges before adding it to the newsletter.
Make the result less generic
- Adjust ambient and directional light separately in Relight so the room looks naturally lit, not flat or overexposed.
- Use the Cleanup brush on specific distractions — cables, trash, clutter — instead of trying to fix the whole image at once.
- Download between each tool step so you keep a clean version if a later edit goes wrong.
- Resize to your newsletter’s exact width so the image displays correctly without the email client stretching it.
- Check cleaned areas at 100% zoom for smudges or artifacts that look obvious close up.
Quick human check
- Do the formerly blown-out windows look like real windows, or do they show visible fill artifacts?
- Is the room lighting even, or are there dark corners that still look underexposed?
- Are the cleaned-up areas (where cables or clutter were removed) smooth, or can you see brush marks?
- Is the image the right size for your newsletter template, or will the email client stretch or crop it?
- Would a reader looking at this photo in the newsletter think it was professionally shot, or does it still look like a quick phone snap?
