How to Remove Background (Ambient) Lighting in Blender

Even with all lights removed, a default scene in Blender is partially lit. Learn how to adjust or remove this background (ambient) light. Details below...

Properties panel - World Properties tab - Surface section - Color

Click on the color chip to edit it. Increasing the Value (brightness) of this colour increases the background lighting in the scene. Reducing the Value to 0 removes all background lighting.

[ItsPepperpot]

Thanks for this! I was trying to bake lighting into a texture and was wondering why there was grey ambient lighting in it, and this solved my issue

[sirjamesfancy]

Noo, I figured that much out. I want to keep my beautiful sky map, while having dark shadows inside a building.

[JuanFernandez-tibv]

clear and straight to the point! thank you very much

[FerinitheBloodHusky]

how do i have a background be colored without the color influencing the lighting

[swinnei]

say I wanted to light my scene with the ambient lighting that you would get from a completely white background, while having a black background, how could I do that?

[dreamboystacy]

Great vid can you show how to remove the grey/blk box background when render a png vid of clothing for a website

[miicro]

I tried this but there's still ambient light. (I'm using blender 4.4, llatest)