I want to be able to make objects look like they are glowing when I am doing the postwork of my renders. How do I get the objects that I am working on to look like that they are glowing? I was trying to work with it earlier, and it was not working too well. I was trying to see about having a character's eyes glow, but I was not able to get the glow to be only in the eyes area. Any ideas?

Well,.... probably the easiest way is to use the Glow layer effect. Of course you have to separate out the part that you actually want to glow (put it on it's own layer). Another thing to bear in mind is that sometimes if your having difficulty getting the type of glow you want, it may be easier to do it in pieces, meaning multiple layers. A layer or two for say a tight glow close up to the object itself and then maybe a couple others with wider (and more transparent glows). The glows are transparent so you can build inrensity with multiple layers as well as have a lot more control by affecting the level of transparency/opacity per layer. You can always do it by hand of course. just put the object you want to glow on it's own layer and then create a layer beneath it and airbursh in a custom glow. That can leave you with hard edges on your glowing object up close to it so you may want to address that.

The best investment you can ever make to add to photoshop is Eye Candy. Aside from everything else, there's the gradient glow effect, which you can manipulate in any way you like. I use it often for glow effects. You just can't find a more useful plugin.

You can select the parts you want to glow (with color range for instance, or with the magic wand), create a new layer and fill it with a lighter color in the same range as the objects. Blur that layer and try different layer blend modes. Duplicate the layer, try other blending modes. It is easy, just experiment.

HEY, How com evry'one has a suggestion but no one post an example??? Letz see what youre saying, makz it a hella' lot easier to figure out!! ~AnnC~

@ Anna ;)

we'll see what we can do...

:)
retrocity

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Fast example then... In this picture (the cover for my free on-line single 'Your Cat Is Not A Pencil Sharpener' in Dutch) the white is glowing. I did that by selecting the white, made a new layer, filled it with white, blurred that layer and tried different layer blend modes. I can make another example... In the meantime you can listen to my song.

Mmmm. This example might be a bit too much. But the important part is blurred layers with layer blend modes. And I used some layer styles (I made layers of the first two layer effects: the outline and the gradient fill). I will post the layer palette too.

Uhm. Yes. My copy of PS is in Dutch too. Like the song.

LOL Hoff! it'd make a cool tee-shirt!! thanks for the examples, they really help to explain your methods.
:)
scott

PS: and i thought English had "funny" words... ;)

here's my attempt. basicly II made a black layer and set it's blending mode to *screen* and used the eye's shape to define the main glow. it's an iregular shape. laso selection wil do, feather it by 1 pixel. duplicate this layer and flur it any way you like. I did a gausian, and a hoizontal motion blur , these copies layers were @ 26% opacity.

forgive the suspicious photo.

Message edited on: 06/08/2004 07:40

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are we getting close curtskinn?

Message edited on: 06/13/2004 07:59