U know that “distort glow” effect on Photoshop? where it finds the background color and melts it all over it’s edges with a fade?
well I’m trying to find a similar effect but on AE.
“glow” didn’t help unfortunately.
if all fails, i’ll simply export my vid on .MOV, export that .mov into frames, and then batch process a “distort glow” on all these frames before putting them back again.
i’d just like to find an easier approach on AE
Thank u.
Could you post a sample image to show us what effect you’re after? I’ve never heard of Distort Glow, and a cursory Google search didn’t turn up anything except the Diffuse Glow filter.
yes that’s the one, diffuse glow, it falls under the “DISTORT” category in the filters.
sorry i mixed the names, but it’s the diffuse glow effect i want, only with 0 grain value.
Simple enough. What you want is Effect > Stylize > Glow. Change the Glow Operation to Screen, Glow Colors to A & B Colors, and set both the A and B colors to white. Then play with the Glow Threshold and Radius until you see something you like.
I did something similar to this with a recent project where I wanted the highlights to bloom, giving everything a surreal, dream-like quality. I applied the glow on an adjustment layer, so it was easy to apply it to the entire video, but I could still mask it away from objects or shots where I didn’t want to see it.
If you want to see how I applied the effect, the video can be viewed here: http://www.bryanray.name/wordpress/?p=155
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