Lighting Diagram Creator

Online Lighting Diagram Creator for photographers

Photography lighting diagrams made easy with this online tool: use the drop down menus, select objects, drag them, rotate them, change their layers then export your diagram to JPEG or save its URL.

v3 beta is now public  with iPad support, it includes ability to add notes.

Select an image set and objet to add:

Online Lighting Diagram Creator by QHphotography.com

Your donation is greatly appreciated.

A minimum donation of $10 USD is asked for each commercial project (except the use on a photographer website, blog or gallery). For more detail please contact me .

The Online Lighting Diagram Creator is a personal project that requires a lot of resources to be developed and maintained. But I believe in the strength of a community when everyone contributes to the knowledge of the group that is why I want to make this tool available free of charge to all non-commercial projects.

If you use the OLDC and are happy with it, I'd love if you would consider donating. Donations help keep the updates coming, pay for hosting, and help pay for the time spent maintaining and improving the tool. Donations are entirely voluntary but are greatly appreciated.

Known issues :

You can now export to JPEG and generate a URL that allows you to bookmark your diagram.

The tool have some display problem on IE6 due IE's PNG bug, but the JPEG export should work fine. Firefox's bug with moving objects by dragging them is solved by adding a "move" icon, dragging it will make FireFox not sticking the object when the mouse button is released.

On IE8, be sure to click on the Compatibility button next to the URL field at the top of the browser. This will reload the page and allow you to move the various camera/flash/bg icons onto the worksheet (John Matthieu).

Comments

Thank you for commenting

Monday 25 March 2013 1:51:42 pm

Commented by Quoc-Huy

Thanks all for the recent comments. And sorry for the delay approving them. This site is receiving a lot of spams…

@Dan Donovan. Good idea. This is noted.

@Alexander John. You can use the diagrams on your own website, as long it is part of a content publicly available. Credits are optional but very much appreciated. Just link back to this website.

@Grum. Thanks for the suggestion. This could be added in the Creator v3 in a next release.

@Amy Barnard. Thanks for the nice words. Donations what they are, just donations. They just contribute to paying expenses related to keeping this tool online. But even $1 can be helpful. But giving a nice comments is also another way to donate (to the mind).

@VIVI. lo siento, esto no es posible. Esto es demasiado complicado para este proyecto. Usted puede intentar otra herramienta aquí, el estudio virtual de iluminación:

@George Delgado. Please use the Creator v3. There is a text tool.

@Sam. Please try the Creator v3.

Ability To Draw

Monday 25 March 2013 1:40:24 pm

Commented by Dan
Dan Donovan Photography

I would really like the ability to draw elements of the diagram. For instance, when I scout a location of a commercial shoot, I would like to draw elements of that location. Then I would add the objects to complete the diagram.

Also, I checked out the note creator on the iPad version. It would be ideal if the there was no background color behind the notes. This way just the text would be visible and not the box.

Thank you so much for your hard work on the diagram creator. I will be a paying customer with just the ability to draw!

Wow, this is wonderful. I have a quick question.

Monday 25 March 2013 1:40:23 pm

Commented by Alexander John
Portrait Photography Tips

Can you use the diagrams that you make on your website?

Do you have to give you guys credit? If yes? How?

This is an amazing learning tool! This will be perfect to teach my readers!

Thanks,

Alex

end-user objects

Monday 25 March 2013 1:40:22 pm

Commented by Grum

In order to save yourself having to second guess every object that people want to see in these diagrams, how about providing a basic set of scalable and distortable block shapes that people can use to make their own objects.
Perhaps these could then be saved to a public library even...

STUDIO

Monday 25 March 2013 1:40:19 pm

Commented by Stancu Emil
stancuemil

I can only say that it is very useful that's clear is fashion photographer in Bucharest Romania and helped me test sami studio lights thanks

Amazing Tool

Monday 25 March 2013 1:40:19 pm

Commented by Amy Barnard
Dharma Visions Photography