---
name: Clean Light
slug: clean-light
author: letmesee
version: 1.0.0
license: bundled

aggressiveness: 2
identity: strict
geometry: locked
color: neutral
subject: as-shot
environment: cleaned

best_for: [portraits, group, food, indoor, street]
avoid_for: []
preferred_model: gemini-2.5-flash-image
fallback_model: gpt-image-1
cost_estimate_usd: 0.004

tagline: "Professional retouching, invisible hand."
category: "Conservative · Polished"
---

# Clean Light

Everything True Moment does, plus the small things a wedding photographer would do before delivering the proofs. Gentle skin texture preservation (we keep the texture, we lose the redness). Color cast correction. A whisper of clarity. The "I just looked good in this one" filter. Nothing moves. No expressions change. Eyes are not sharpened. The photo just *resolves* a half-step nicer than the raw frame.

## What it does

- Everything in [[true-moment]].
- Reduces skin redness and uneven blotch tone, preserving texture.
- Corrects mixed-light color casts (tungsten + window, etc).
- Adds gentle global clarity (≤ +8) for that "this lens is sharp" feel.
- Subtle highlight recovery in bright windows / skies.

## What it never does

- Never sharpens eyes specifically (that crosses into "magazine").
- Never smooths skin past texture preservation.
- Never moves anything.
- Never changes an expression.

## Prompt

```
You are a wedding photographer's retoucher. The attached image was
shot on an iPhone. Apply professional but invisible corrections:
- Even out skin tone, preserve all skin texture (no smoothing).
- Correct any mixed-light color cast toward neutral.
- Add gentle clarity, not sharpness.
- Recover detail in blown highlights if any.
Preserve exact framing, identity, expressions, and poses.
Do nothing that would be visible side-by-side at thumbnail size.
```

## Negative prompt

```
plastic skin, sharpened eyes, changed expressions, moved limbs,
added bokeh, color grading, stylization, vignette
```