# photo-studio-light-snapping-alignment-guide

> Streamline your studio lighting with Light Snap and Light Align features. Easily position and align lights for perfect scenes. Start optimizing your setup today.

- **URL**: https://www.coohom.com/helpcenter/photo-studio-light-snapping-alignment-guide
- **Locale**: en_US
- **Updated**: 2026-08-27

## Content

Feature Overview
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* Two new features---Light Snap and Light Align---help you quickly organize light positions and directions in your scene, making studio lighting setups more efficient.

For User
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* All Photo Studio Users

Feature Details
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1. Light Snap
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* How to access: Drag a light's snap point and move it to the target location to snap it into place.

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* Sunlight does not support snapping or alignment.

* Snapping is not triggered when moving multiple selected lights at once.

* You cannot move a light that has a Follow constraint enabled.

2. Light Align
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* How to access: Select one or more lights, choose an alignment method from the toolbar ( **Align Light Direction / Align Light Source Position**) , and specify a reference object.
* Press ESC or click the Done button to exit alignment mode when finished.

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**(1) Align Light Direction**

* Lets you control whether the light's **front or back** faces the reference object.

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* You cannot align a light's direction if it has a Look-at or Follow constraint enabled.

**(2) Align Light Source Position**  
Lights can be aligned to a reference object using **Pivot Point Alignment** or **Bounding Box Alignment**.

* **Pivot Point Alignment**: Aligns the light to the reference object's pivot point.

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* **Bounding Box Alignment**: Aligns the light to the center point of any of the six faces of the object's bounding box. The selected face is highlighted in cyan.

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* You cannot align a light's position if it has a Follow constraint enabled.