Lumen Tool

Portrait Lighting Simulator

Saving and opening work

Updated October 21, 2026

Studio 04 · The Archive is your private library of saved Lumen Tool work. Your items stay with your account, so you can review them on another device, at work, at school or in your studio.

Every subscription includes 250 MB of Archive space. The bottom of the list shows how much of it you have used. Previews and your own photos take most of it; a setup itself is tiny.

Save your studio work

Use Save to the Archive in a studio to keep a setup with its settings and preview. Give it a name, and an optional note and collection.

  • Photo Lighting saves a single setup or a whole comparison, and can include a Reference Lab portrait when you tick that box.
  • Artist Lighting saves your lighting setup.
  • Color Lab saves the scene and its looks.
  • Set Builder saves the room, objects, lighting and camera.
  • Hand Reference saves the pose, camera, lighting and display.

Saving again offers to update the same item or save a copy. The studios also keep your work in progress in the browser you are using, but that is not a save: it does not travel to another device and it goes away when the browser clears its data.

Open a saved setup again

Open an item and use its button for the studio it came from: Open in Photo Lighting, Open in Artist Lighting, Open in Color Lab, Open in Set Builder or Open in Hand Reference. The setup comes back as you left it, on desktop. If an item holds several setups, pick the preview you want first.

In Photo Lighting and Artist Lighting, opening an item asks first when you have unsaved work, so you can keep your current setup instead.

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Finding and organizing saved work covers search, collections, notes, your own photos, printing and the phone layout. Backup and restore covers a complete offline copy of your library.