Terms
Image license & usage terms
Every lighting photograph, mood variation, relight frame, and diagram on LightSchemes is our own work. You are welcome to share them to teach lighting, as long as you credit us. Everything else stays reserved.
What these images are
They are owned, generated educational assets — photoreal teaching visuals we produce ourselves to demonstrate a specific, physically possible lighting setup. They are not stock photography, and they are not documentary photographs of real people, products, or places. We label them this way deliberately, and we ask that you do too.
Copyright in all of them is held by LightSchemes.
You may
- Share or embed our images in articles, blog posts, forum replies, lesson notes, and social posts — with visible attribution and a working link back to the page you took them from.
- Use them in non-commercial teaching material: workshop slides, classroom handouts, study groups, and student critique.
- Quote a lighting diagram alongside your own write-up of the technique it demonstrates.
You may not
- Selling, sublicensing, or redistributing the images — individually or in a set — including uploading them to stock libraries, wallpaper sites, print-on-demand stores, or NFT marketplaces.
- Removing, obscuring, or falsifying the attribution, or presenting the images as your own work.
- Presenting them as documentary photographs of real people, real products, or real events. They are generated teaching visuals and must not be passed off as reportage.
- Bulk scraping or downloading the library, or using it as training data for machine-learning models.
How to attribute
Put the credit next to the image, and make the link clickable wherever links are possible:
Lighting setup by LightSchemes
On platforms with no link support, the plain text lightschemes.com is enough.
Licensing beyond these terms
Commercial use, print runs, client work, course platforms, or anything else on the reserved list needs written permission. We read every message and we are generally happy to say yes — ask us about licensing an image and tell us which page it is on and where you want to use it.
Third-party material
These terms cover images we made. They do not cover trademarks, product names, or equipment branding that may be referenced in our teaching copy — those remain with their respective owners, and we name them only to describe photographic technique.