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Plate Light

Food photo studio · same day

Your phone snap.
Their photographer's light.

You already have a photo of every dish you sell. Drop one here, choose how it should be lit, and get back a studio-grade frame of that same dish — cut to the sizes the delivery apps, your menu page and your stories actually ask for.

The light table

Put a dish up

JPEG, PNG or WebP up to 12 MB. Send the original from the camera roll, not a screenshot or a messaging-app copy — those have already thrown away the detail we work from.

Goes on the file name and the plating note, so your delivery-app uploads don't turn into IMG_4471.

Your first dish is free and needs no account. It comes back watermarked so you can judge it; credits remove the mark.

Concept study · Daylight Pass

Same burger. Same tray.

Double smash burger & fries as the venue's own phone photo Double smash burger & fries after Plate Light re-lit it Phone snapPlate Light

concept study · 4:3 · daylight pass · drag to compare

Drag the divider. The left is a real phone snap under takeaway strip lights; the right is what came back. Same patties, same cheese, same fries, same cardboard tray — we changed the light and the surface, not the food.

Everything shown as sample work on this site is our own concept study — a test dish we shot badly on purpose and then put through the same pipeline you'd use. It is illustrative, not a client result.

What comes back

Three frames, cut to the sizes that get used

One upload, one charge. You get the master plus every crop, already sized — no resizing in an app that squashes it.

Delivery tile Frame 01
Delivery tile
1080 × 1080 px · JPEG

Deliveroo · Uber Eats · Talabat · DoorDash item image

Menu frame Frame 02
Menu frame
1500 × 1000 px · JPEG

Your own menu page, printed menu inserts, Google Business

Story / reel Frame 03
Story / reel
1080 × 1920 px · JPEG

Instagram and TikTok stories, vertical ads

plating note
Frame 04
Plating note
plain english · per dish

A line saying exactly what we changed — light, background, surface, crop, cleanup — so you can tell a customer, or an app's review team, what they're looking at.

The part most of these tools skip

We don't put food on your menu that your kitchen doesn't serve

A menu image that shows a garnish you don't plate, a portion you don't serve, or a side you charge extra for isn't a nicer photo — it's a refund, a bad review, and in a lot of places a trading-standards problem.

So the studio re-lights and re-stages. It never adds, removes or swaps an ingredient. Every dish ships with a note of what actually changed.

We changeLight, shadow, colour cast, background clutter, the surface it sits on, framing and crop, flash glare, focus separation.
We never changeThe food itself. Ingredients, garnish, portion size, the plate or container it came in.
We refusePhotos too dark, too soft or too blown-out to rebuild. You get told why and you're not charged — a bad render helps nobody.

Four house looks

Pick the light before you shoot

See all four →
Daylight Pass 01 Daylight Pass
Daylight Pass
Bright, clean, neutral

Delivery-app tiles and menu pages. The safe default — reads well at thumbnail size.

Before & after →

Night Service 02 Night Service
Night Service
Low-key, warm, moody

Evening menus, bars, ramen and curry houses. Rich contrast against a dark listing.

Before & after →

Overhead Flatlay 03 Overhead Flatlay
Overhead Flatlay
Straight down, even, tidy

Bowls, pizzas, brunch plates and anything with a pattern on top.

Before & after →

Counter Top 04 Counter Top
Counter Top
Eye level, shallow, in-situ

Cafés, bakeries and food trucks — feels like the shop, not a studio.

Before & after →

The counter

Pay per dish. Credits don't expire.

No subscription, no minimum. Buy what your menu needs and shoot the rest next month.

$9
Single Dish
1 dish
$39
Six Pack
6 dishes
$99
Service Pack
15 dishes

Go to the counter →

Whole menu?

The menu run

Twenty dishes or more, and we work it as a job rather than one-at-a-time: a consistent look across the section, a kitchen notes sheet telling you how to shoot the next ones better, and a phone-sized pass card with every frame on it that whoever updates your delivery listing can open on the line.

Priced on how many dishes and what state the source photos are in — which is why it's quoted rather than sold off a shelf. Send the list and you'll have a number and a date back.

Tell us about your menu →