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Glowing edges effect

Postby dowhatnow » Sat May 02, 2009 4:08 pm

I'm looking for a way to create an effect similar to the one shown at the end of the movie The Last Dragon (the one where there's this orange glow around the edges of one of the actors).

Any suggestions?
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby blabbler » Sat May 02, 2009 4:47 pm

got a pic?
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby dowhatnow » Sat May 02, 2009 5:02 pm

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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby blabbler » Sat May 02, 2009 5:59 pm

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that's a bit quick and dirty, but i've done a crap key to isolate the character, then duplicated her a couple of times. the duplicates are placed below the 'main' image, they are blurred out a bit and blended in add mode.

it's gonna take some rough roto and/or keying to get the look you want, luckily the edges will be pretty forgiving if you glow over your subject (like the shot with the hands, just stick the duplicated layers on top), but you'll need to be fairly accurate if you want the glow behind.

edit: and you colourise the duplicated layers to get the particular glow that you want.
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby Pas » Sat May 02, 2009 10:11 pm

blabbler wrote:Quoted Image converted to link:
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j172/rigormortis20/glow.jpg

No no no! You're doing it all wrong! It needs more... COLOUR!
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I think we can all agree that this looks much better.
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby post-it » Sun May 03, 2009 12:07 am

there is a "dirty" cheat to glowing but you'll need Photo software with Layers;
just cast different shadows from all four corners .. then define the shadows as "..color.."

the only problem will be doing each frame with that process 8-)

the good news is that you can Shadow on to the main character as if she were CG.
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby blabbler » Sun May 03, 2009 5:28 am

:roll:

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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby dowhatnow » Sun May 03, 2009 6:27 pm

So, how would I go about all this in Premiere/AE/Photoshop?
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby Zwill » Mon May 04, 2009 1:06 am

You could do it in Photoshop and use glow or export it then glow it in premiere.

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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby dowhatnow » Mon May 04, 2009 1:31 am

I'm guessing I'll need a plugin. Pro 2.0 doesn't seem to have it.
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby blabbler » Mon May 04, 2009 1:02 pm

as my able and voluptuous assistant pas demonstrated, you would want to do this in ae or ps.

you need to

1. isolate the element that you want to glow around utilising roto, keying or a combination of both
2. put your left hand in your underpants
3. apply a gay ass glow to your isolated layer OR duplicate the layer and use a super-pro blur + blend combo
4. revel in fame, glory, wimmenz and profit
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby post-it » Mon May 04, 2009 11:23 pm

Layers and adding Glow are not exclusive to the RAT

Corel's photo shop IV can do this too, so can JASC's photo works. ( its not an exclusive affect. )
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby blabbler » Tue May 05, 2009 11:14 am

no, but he asked how to do it in ae/ps

so it seemed kind of relevant at the time...
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Re: Glowing edges effect

Postby xPiikanyaa » Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:29 am

I did something like that on a clip with a white background in Vegas. Before I started it looked like this:
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3334/luckystard.jpg
I used the chroma keyer to take out the background and set the 'low threshold' at 0.248, the 'high threshold' at 0.290, blurred the outline as much as possible and added a background, so now it looks like this:
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/72/luckystar2.jpg
I don't think it would work with any clip, only if the background is one colour, but it might be worth a try.
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