Q: How to achieve bloom/glimmer effect

#1

Ususally, I try to do glow effects and such in post, but how can I make speculars bloom and water glimmer with nice results, using Shake?

This is what I’m trying to achieve:

Any tips/pointers?

#2

Try the defocus

#3

luma key, blur it, feed it into a brightness on the original image.

#4

yeah what beaker said. Also adding the resulting keyed area with a mult of a preferred colour to give it a coloured halo around the bloom !

#5

Split the layer, Blur/Defocus + IAdd might do it.

#6

Some newbie help please ;). I have managed to luma key and blur. Now how exactly do I feed it into the brightens? I have tried various flavors of Copy, ColourSpace, Reorder etc but can not find something that works.

Thanks.

#7

ah ha. just discovered. Fed the result into mask of an attached brightness node. To quote Homer Simpson: Doe!

#8

Yup. or you could use something from the layer nodes to do the same thing (iadd would have been my suggestion).

#9

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