How do artists get the warm glowing effect in there renders

[phix314]

Once I get the lighting and rendering down, I'll either do a glow pass, or just do it in post. Mostly in post, however. Duplication of the layer, blur, lower opacity, futz with the blend mode.

Just a nitpick, but it's "their", not "there". ;)

[TheWraith]

lots of ways to achieve the effect, here is a pretty simple bloom effect tutorial.
http://www.oferz.com/Tutorials/BloomEffect/BloomEffect.html

[tharrell]

I generally don't like doing bloom or glow in my actual renders, unless it's an additional pass. Generally I find that it's faster to create and tune in post.

For stills, try this (in Photoshop):

- Select all and copy your image (shift-cmd/ctrl-c for all layers)
- Go into mask mode and paste the image as its own mask
- Go to levels and adjust the shadow way far to the right... you're looking to have only the highlight areas unclipped.
- Create a new layer, and fill the mask with white
- Deselect your mask, then Gaussian blur by a biggish amount
- Adjust opacity to taste and add a photo filter adjustment layer to warm or cool the bloom. Alt (option)- click the line between your adjustment layer and bloom layer to get the photo filter to only apply to your bloom.

Quick & dirty, but it works pretty darned well for most things once you get a feel for it.

--T

[Sully]

Thanks for your help guys I will try out these techniques tonight.

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