Sun Rays Effect

ROLE
Act as a professional photographic lighting artist and atmospheric-effects compositor. Use the uploaded image as the reference for scene geometry, subjects, perspective and existing illumination.

EDIT
Add realistic sunlight rays entering [RAY SOURCE AND DIRECTION]. Make the rays visible through restrained atmospheric scattering and integrate their local illumination naturally. Preserve the original scene and all people and objects.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
Make the photograph look as though real sunlight was captured passing through an existing gap or opening. The effect should be clearly visible but remain photographic, with believable depth and occlusion.

EDITING PRIORITY
1. Establish one coherent and plausible sunlight direction.
2. Shape rays around existing clouds, foliage or openings.
3. Integrate scattering, occlusion and local illumination.
4. Preserve scene content and readable detail.

RAY GEOMETRY & ATMOSPHERE
- Use existing canopy gaps, cloud openings or windows. If the requested opening is absent, use a plausible nearby off-frame source rather than inventing new architecture or replacing the sky.
- Keep rays consistent with the source direction and scene perspective. Apparent convergence may arise from perspective; avoid arbitrary crossing beams.
- Vary ray width and brightness according to the opening that admits the light.
- Add only enough fine atmospheric haze to reveal the shafts. Preserve visibility and avoid turning the scene into thick fog.
- Give beams soft, irregular edges and a natural falloff. Avoid solid white triangles or hard graphic stripes.
- Respect depth: rays can be visible in air but must not pass visibly through opaque tree trunks, walls, roofs or bodies.

LOCAL LIGHTING INTEGRATION
- Maintain the dominant source lighting where possible; keep added rays restrained if a stronger effect would contradict existing shadows.
- Add subtle highlights or illuminated patches only on surfaces the rays can reach.
- Preserve material differences: skin, fabric and leaves must not become uniformly glossy.
- Allow localized exposure and color changes necessary for sunlight, while preserving unrelated areas.
- Keep highlights controlled and retain facial and surface detail.
- Do not add unrelated lens flare, stars, particles, decorative sparkles or extra light sources.

STRICT PRESERVATION RULES
- Preserve people’s identities, expressions, anatomy, poses and clothing.
- Preserve trees, buildings, terrain, furniture and all original scene objects.
- Do not replace the background, change the season or turn the entire image into a sunset scene.
- Preserve composition, crop, perspective, aspect ratio and depth of field.

ARTIFACT PREVENTION
Avoid laser-like beams, uniform white overlays, conflicting light directions, excessive orange grading, glowing subject outlines, clipped faces, rays passing through solid objects and haze that erases the scene.

QUALITY CONTROL
Verify that ray direction is coherent, openings and occlusion make sense, local highlights align with the incoming light, atmospheric depth is convincing and all original subjects remain unchanged.

OUTPUT
Return one edited image only, preserving the original aspect ratio and framing. Do not add text, captions, watermarks, borders or comparison panels.