Introducing Topaz Image Lighting on WaveSpeedAI

Lighting can make or break a photograph. Even the most carefully composed shot can fall flat when exposure is off, white balance creates unwanted color casts, or shadows obscure important details. Until now, correcting these issues required either expensive software subscriptions or hours of manual adjustment in traditional editing applications.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Topaz Image Lighting is now available on WaveSpeedAI, bringing professional-grade AI lighting correction to your workflow through a simple REST API.

What is Topaz Image Lighting?

Topaz Image Lighting is an advanced AI-powered image processing model developed by Topaz Labs, a company trusted by professional photographers worldwide for its cutting-edge image enhancement technology. This model specializes in analyzing and correcting lighting issues that commonly plague photographs—from underexposed indoor shots to images ruined by harsh artificial lighting.

What sets Topaz Image Lighting apart is its intelligent approach to image correction. Rather than applying blanket adjustments across your entire image, the AI analyzes different regions independently, making targeted corrections to highlights, midtones, and shadows to achieve natural-looking results. The model understands the relationship between different tonal ranges and adjusts them harmoniously, producing output that looks professionally edited rather than algorithmically processed.

Key Features

AI-Powered Exposure Adjustment The Adjust models intelligently correct both underexposed and overexposed areas in a single pass. The AI brightens dark shadows while preserving highlight detail, creating balanced images with improved tonal range. The newer Adjust V2 model offers enhanced performance for challenging lighting conditions, including backlit subjects and high-contrast scenes.

Intelligent White Balance Correction Color casts from artificial lighting—the yellow tinge of incandescent bulbs, the green hue of fluorescent lights, or the blue tone of shade—are automatically detected and neutralized. The White Balance model goes beyond simple temperature adjustment, making selective color toning adjustments to warm and cool different regions of your image for improved color harmony.

Photo Colorization Transform your black-and-white photographs into natural-looking color images. The Colorize model uses deep learning trained on vast datasets of color photographs to understand how different subjects, textures, and scenes should appear in color. This feature is particularly valuable for restoring old family photos or adding new life to vintage imagery.

Multiple Output Formats Export your processed images in the format that best suits your workflow:

JPEG for web-ready compressed files
PNG for lossless quality with transparency support
TIFF for professional archival and maximum quality preservation

Flat-Rate Pricing At just $0.07 per image regardless of resolution or model selection, you get predictable costs without surprises. Process everything from quick social media fixes to high-resolution professional work at the same affordable rate.

Real-World Use Cases

Professional Photography Workflows

Event photographers often shoot in challenging venue lighting—dim reception halls, mixed artificial lighting, or harsh stage spotlights. Topaz Image Lighting allows batch correction of hundreds of images with consistent, professional results, dramatically reducing post-processing time.

E-Commerce Product Photography

Product photos taken under inconsistent lighting conditions or with incorrect white balance can misrepresent colors, leading to customer complaints and returns. The White Balance model ensures accurate color representation across your entire product catalog.

Real Estate and Architecture

Interior photography frequently suffers from mixed lighting sources—natural window light combining with overhead fixtures. The Adjust models balance these competing light sources, revealing detail in both bright windows and darker corners.

Photo Restoration

Family historians and archivists can breathe new life into vintage black-and-white photographs. The Colorize model transforms these memories into vivid color, making historical images more relatable and engaging for modern audiences.

Influencers and content creators can quickly rescue photos taken in suboptimal conditions. A slightly underexposed selfie or a video thumbnail with a yellow color cast can be corrected in seconds via API, maintaining consistent visual quality across your content.

Getting Started with WaveSpeedAI

Integrating Topaz Image Lighting into your workflow is straightforward with WaveSpeedAI’s Python SDK:

import wavespeed

output = wavespeed.run(
    "topaz/image/lighting",
    {
        "image": "https://your-image-url.com/photo.jpg",
        "model": "Adjust V2"
    },
)

print(output["outputs"][0])

Choose from four processing models based on your needs:

Adjust — General lighting and exposure adjustment (default)
Adjust V2 — Improved adjustment with better tonal range for challenging conditions
White Balance — Correct color casts and temperature issues
Colorize — Add natural color to black-and-white images

WaveSpeedAI handles all the infrastructure complexity, delivering:

Instant processing with no cold starts—your API calls execute immediately
Consistent performance whether you’re processing one image or thousands
Simple integration with RESTful endpoints that work with any programming language

Why Choose WaveSpeedAI for Topaz Image Lighting?

Running AI models locally requires significant computational resources and technical expertise. Cloud-based alternatives often involve complex setup, unpredictable cold-start delays, and confusing pricing tiers.

WaveSpeedAI eliminates these friction points entirely. Our infrastructure is optimized specifically for AI inference workloads, ensuring your image processing requests complete quickly and reliably. With straightforward per-image pricing, you can accurately forecast costs and scale your usage with confidence.

Whether you’re building an automated photo processing pipeline, integrating lighting correction into a mobile app, or simply need an efficient way to enhance images at scale, WaveSpeedAI provides the performance and reliability professional workflows demand.

Start Enhancing Your Images Today

Poor lighting no longer needs to compromise your photographs. With Topaz Image Lighting on WaveSpeedAI, professional-quality exposure correction, white balance adjustment, and photo colorization are just an API call away.

Explore the model, experiment with different processing options, and see the results for yourself at wavespeed.ai/models/topaz/image/lighting.

Introducing Topaz Image Lighting on WaveSpeedAI