ShaderError recently made a lot of noise in the Blender community with the release of Light Painter, a tool that makes lighting feel like painting. The concept is simple: you select a light, add a layer, and then paint directly onto it in the viewport, much like Photoshop, but for lighting. It also works with any number of lights in a scene.

You can choose a brush and adjust size, hardness, strength, flow, and falloff, or switch to Erase mode for corrections. Light Painter also lets you create gradients and use familiar tools like rectangle and lasso. Create as many layers as you need, reorder them, hide, change blend modes, transform, or delete at any time. Everything remains fully editable throughout the process.

A new update has just landed, featuring a reworked brush falloff logic and Fill Color now respecting active selection:

The tool is actively being developed. In a previous release, a layer-related bug affecting Blender 5.x was fixed, along with invisible paint previews on some GPUs. The developer also plans to add EEVEE support and release a tutorial video.

You can follow Light Painter updates on X/Twitter and purchase it by clicking here. Add more Blender tools to your collection: Tire Rig Generator, Sketch2Pose, Light Painter, fantasy hut generator, WrapKit, and LimbKit.

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