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    Dramatic Lighting Slider - Illustrious - v1.0
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    Dramatic Lighting Slider - Illustrious V1.0

    This slider is designed to enhance lighting effects in both anime and realistic SDXL models like PonyXL, Illustrious, and other compatible bases. It focuses purely on the lighting and environment, leaving the subject's appearance unaffected. Perfect for creating dramatic lighting setups with strong shadows, glowing highlights, and atmospheric environments.

    Key Features:

    • Works seamlessly in 0.10 increments for precise lighting adjustments.

    • Anime-based models: Best results up to 5.0 for a wide range of dramatic lighting effects.

    • Realistic Pony models: Works perfectly up to 3.0. Can go beyond for unique stylistic results but may alter the image slightly.

    • No activation prompt required—just adjust the slider to control the lighting.

      Optional prompts: Combine with any lighting or environment-related tags (e.g., “golden hour,” “volumetric light,” or “dim atmosphere”) to amplify the desired effects naturally.

    Love this slider? Leave a like, share your results, and let me know your feedback!
    I’m always open to requests or ideas for new sliders—your input helps me improve and create tools that inspire creativity!

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    Comments (37)

    HotChosenUndeadJan 11, 2025· 15 reactions
    CivitAI

    Great slider to add and control light details, 10/10

    rhultFeb 22, 2025· 12 reactions
    CivitAI

    love this Lora, thank you. trying to get a dark mode for my images has always been a struggle and this does the job perfectly.

    one slight issue? (might be a me issue) i'm using this illustrious lora, with an illustrious checkpoint, but for some reason every image i upload it's being recognised as the pony version of the Lora and the pictures get sent over to it's gallery, only ones that appear here are the video versions of images where i manually enter the illustrious version of the lora as a tool used.

    Not sure if a hash is off somewhere or it's the civitai extension i have loaded in forge (2024-03-06 last update)

    klaabu
    Author
    Feb 22, 2025· 1 reaction

    Hi! Thank you so much for the kind words!

    So all the sliders you can see on my page are cross compatible between Pony - Illustrious - SDXL! I think you might have downloaded "Pony" version, and thr hash reads it as such.

    Don't forget to try out the other loras too!

    ❤️

    GaladulFeb 28, 2025· 11 reactions
    CivitAI

    Hey, with which tool was this trained? Some AI user interfaces can't determine the model type of this lora.

    klaabu
    Author
    Feb 28, 2025

    Kohya. Which AI UI ? It has been tested in most popular ones and works well. ❤️

    GaladulFeb 28, 2025

    @klaabu Thanks! The model manager in Invoke gets stumped by it for some reason.

    klaabu
    Author
    Mar 1, 2025

    @Galadul I've heard that. I think it has something to do with cross compatibility. There's a fix for it if you look at their github Issue repo.

    commander_alexAug 5, 2025

    klaabu having the same problem with invoke i looked but wasn't able to find the fix.. if possible could you point me int he direction of it, i'd love to try your LORA

    luckmiriwindsMar 1, 2025· 29 reactions
    CivitAI

    Lora so good it made me hallucinate that I'm good at prompting

    klaabu
    Author
    Mar 1, 2025· 3 reactions

    Stop it ❤️

    184198112561561Mar 18, 2025· 21 reactions
    CivitAI
    klaabu
    Author
    Mar 18, 2025

    Weights. Otherwise it is same,

    combotJul 28, 2025· 2 reactions
    possionthefish1Aug 8, 2025

    So many people asking questions yet can't even say 'thank you'? ? ?👀
    thank you for the lora, works fine.

    klaabu
    Author
    Aug 8, 2025

    possionthefish1 no problem :) happy that people are enjoying

    possionthefish1Aug 8, 2025

    Damn thank you so much for such a huge tip! please know that you didn't even have to! You kindly make all these models and upload them for us to use freely and I just think people should show their appreciation more. I really appreciated it tho! thank you so much again. Cheers! (Sorry for the late reply... I was coming up with what to type lol.)

    k1ngfloydApr 6, 2025· 26 reactions
    CivitAI

    What kind of black magic is this???!!! Wow just wow

    7899104Apr 20, 2025· 20 reactions
    CivitAI

    It works great overall! I wonder, do you have any tips for controlling the type of light it yields? I don't want it to always produce sunlight, but prompting and negatives haven't worked very well so far.

    crazyfor2bAug 10, 2025

    same issue here

    johnathanreese2021617May 4, 2025· 25 reactions
    CivitAI

    when i place this on stability matrix, it says it is PONY instead of IL. why so?

    klaabu
    Author
    May 4, 2025

    Hi @johnathanreese2021617 , probably because the hash is assigned by Civit. Regardless, it works with ILXL

    @klaabu heya, thank you for the reply. i didnt realize there are two versions and the one i downloaded was hash assigned as Pony

    klaabu
    Author
    May 4, 2025

    @johnathanreese2021617 they are essentially the same. PONY version and Illustrious version have same base settings, just different weight. Both will do the same :) all sliders under my model pages are cross compatible between Pony, ILXL & SDXL ! Try them all out

    AssIsAssJun 8, 2025· 22 reactions
    CivitAI

    Perfect

    maiuuniverseJul 28, 2025· 36 reactions
    CivitAI

    I found out that setting the slider to 2.2 gives the best results, regardless of which loras or checkpoints I use. Great work.

    crazyfor2bAug 10, 2025· 26 reactions
    CivitAI

    magnifique!!! but is there a way to make the lora obey me for a night scene? it always makes it sunny no matter what I do or prompt

    klaabu
    Author
    Aug 20, 2025

    Hei. Use "sunrays, dappled_sunlight" in negative. If needed, add weight to them

    StigmA7Nov 29, 2025· 2 reactions

    if anyone else has this problem, easy fix is to just throw a good darkness LORA in the mix.

    Caya8205Sep 7, 2025· 23 reactions
    CivitAI

    so good!! ( ˘ω˘ )b!

    p4ntalaimonNov 12, 2025· 3 reactions
    CivitAI

    Hey @klaabu , thanks for making this! I'm struggling to install it though, I'm using Forge WebUI and when I put the Lora in the Lora folder, it just doesn't come up in the webui, am I doing something wrong?

    klaabu
    Author
    Nov 12, 2025

    Hei @p4ntalaimon , not 100% sure why. Maybe try and turn in "cross compatibility" for loras. Forge is A1111 based, should not be a issue

    CGenoJan 13, 2026

    @p4ntalaimon Make sure u have the "Always show all networks on the Lora page" checked, otherwise, those detected as incompatible versions will be hidden.

    You can find that option, in the Extra Network in the setting menu, or just search for it in the saerch box.

    aigobbowaifu265Feb 14, 2026· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    Holy moly! It's back! Thank you so much!

    klaabu
    Author
    Feb 14, 2026· 1 reaction

    @aigobbowaifu265 ❤️

    6550717Feb 16, 2026· 7 reactions
    CivitAI

    Hands down the best lighting lora out there. So glad its back

    klaabu
    Author
    Feb 16, 2026

    ❤️

    NobodyANYMar 6, 2026
    CivitAI

    This lora is really good for starters like me that dont have any clue of what prompts related to environment/lighting are good. Great job! Just for curiosity, do you have any plan to further improve it?

    LORA
    Illustrious

    Details

    Downloads
    33,771
    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    1/11/2025
    Updated
    5/11/2026
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    Files

    Dramatic Lighting Slider.safetensors

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