Light & Image Effects
Directional Beacon Rays
Style guide
Multiple bright image points extend slender luminous rays along one shared direction.
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LandscapeStyle effect
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The visual language
What is Directional Beacon Rays?
Directional beacon rays extend slender streaks from several existing highlights. They share one direction but vary in brightness and length, so the original distribution of light still organizes the image.
Directional rays extend from actual bright features with a shared orientation and varied lengths.
Slanted trails from streetlights, leaving dark windows unaffected, can preserve the scene's original light distribution.
How the style changes different subjects
- Portrait
- Beams guide attention to the face or body edge, giving the figure a spotlighted presence.
- Landscape
- Light paths through trees, windows or valleys make atmosphere and haze feel like spatial layers.
- Objects
- Bright points near the silhouette extend into directional rays, increasing separation from the background.
- Subjects
- Choose woods, windows, figures in haze or selectively reflective objects. Occlusion and darker areas help reveal the beam direction.
Bring the style to your photos
Reusable style prompt for Directional Beacon Rays
Generate directional beacon rays from the existing brightest points of the image. Each highlight emits a slender elongated streak along the same diagonal vector, with tapered brightness and a small luminous origin. Vary streak lengths with highlight intensity while keeping the surrounding image clear and dark values clean. These are parallel directional light extensions from several sources, not radial zoom blur from a common center, broad volumetric shafts or random starbursts. Maintain a restrained luminous color palette.Use the same style prompt for portraits, landscapes and objects.
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