Guide

Day to dusk

Convert a daytime exterior into a dusk or twilight shot.

Day to dusk relights a daytime exterior as an evening shot: the sky turns, interior lights come on, and the facade picks up the warm low-angle light that twilight photography is booked for. It saves a second visit at the right hour — useful for listing photography, and for hotels, short-let operators and architects who need an evening hero image without waiting for one.

A daytime exterior converted to a dusk shot — before — Before

A daytime exterior converted to a dusk shot — after — After

Options

Option	Type	Values	Default	Required	Description
`timeShift`	integer	0–23	`20`	optional	Target hour of day. 20 is the dusk look most listings want.
`viewType`	string	`noneplain-whitecity-skylineforestmountainoceangardenlakecountryside`	`none`	optional	What to render beyond the windows. none keeps the existing view.
`season`	string	`nonespringsummerautumnwinter`	`none`	optional

Every option has a default, so an empty options object gives the dusk look most listings want. Send options only when you need something other than that.

Example

json

{
  "tool": "day-to-dusk",
  "image_url": "https://example.com/house-exterior-noon.jpg",
  "options": {
    "timeShift": 20,
    "viewType": "none",
    "season": "none"
  }
}

Tuning the result

timeShift is the target hour on a 24-hour clock, from 0 to 23. The default of 20 is the dusk look most listings want — the sky has colour but the building is still readable. Lower values move toward late afternoon; higher values toward night, where the facade goes dark and the windows carry the image.

viewType controls what is rendered beyond the windows, and defaults to none, which keeps the existing view. Use it when the real view works against the photo — plain-white to remove a distraction, or a scene such as ocean or city-skyline where that matches the property.

season defaults to none and leaves the vegetation as photographed. Set it to shift the planting and ground — useful when a property was shot in winter and is being marketed in spring.

Be careful what you change

viewType and season change what the photo claims about the property. Rendering an ocean view onto a house that does not have one, or summer planting onto a bare winter garden, may breach the advertising rules you market under. Change the light freely; change the facts deliberately.

Next steps

Tools — the rest of the launch set and the common options.
Quickstart — send this request end to end.