Lights

Lighting jewelry is aiming: a stone only fires when a light hits it from the right angle, and a bezel only shows its polish when something bright reflects in it. These commands come in two groups — the light types you place, and the aiming tools that point them exactly where you want.

Light types

• Point LightLight in every direction from a single point — a bare bulb, the all-purpose fill.
• Directional LightParallel rays with a direction, like the sun — even light across the whole scene.
• Rectangular LightA glowing panel, like a softbox — the soft, broad reflections that make polished metal read.
• Linear LightA tube of light between two points — long, elegant highlight streaks along a band.

Aiming and editing

• Light PropertiesOpen the Properties panel on the selected light: intensity, color, shadow settings.
• Edit Light by Highlight LocationClick where the highlight should land on the piece, and the light moves so it lands there.
• Edit Light by LookingFly the spotlight like a camera: orbit until it "sees" the right part of the scene, press Enter.
• Set Spotlight to ViewThe spotlight takes the current camera's position and target — it shines at exactly what you see.
• Set View to SpotlightThe reverse: look through the spotlight to verify exactly what it is lighting.