glow, blur

LubaRO · July 7, 2012, 9:36am

I am new here, do not have manual, and i need to know how do i apply glow to line drawing? and how do I blur lines?

TheRaider · July 7, 2012, 3:29pm

first the manual comes with the software via the help menu

second you need to say if you are using an Animate or Animate Pro/harmony

third check my youtube channel and pick the tutorial for the type of animate you have.

gertanH_43400 · November 15, 2012, 11:43am

I have tried a tutorial on making glowing stuff, but I still can’t get it to glow like Princess & the the frog fire flies - do I duplicate the layers perhaps?

TheRaider · November 16, 2012, 11:55am

link a picture to the type of effect you want and I will try help you with the setting a bit.

gertanH_43400 · November 16, 2012, 1:04pm

Hi, thanks for the reply, here’s the sort of fireflies I would like:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pfcV9_Jzqnk/UKXuFTIYYgI/AAAAAAAAAHs/8_FYrBq5Cvk/s1600/vlcsnap-2012-11-16-09h24m03s53.png

stevemasson · November 19, 2012, 8:28am

If your issue is that the glow is not strong enough you can double, triple, etc the connection from the Glow to the Composite. This makes it stronger as opposed to increasing only the blur amount in the module which weakens the effect when there is a lot of blur.

You can also use a Matte Resize module before the Glow to expand the shape without affecting the softness level done with the blur.

You can also try the Matte-Blur module which gives a slightly more “glowy” effect compared to the Glow.

You can have multiple Glows coming from the same source image module, some in different colors or blur intensity. For example for a fire I would use a red glow and yellow glows to make the fire more interesting.

gertanH_43400 · December 12, 2012, 6:28pm

Ok, I tried the multiple connections to the composite and the different colours, not too sure if it works though…

http://youtu.be/WmIQ1fCnVwM

stevemasson · December 12, 2012, 7:21pm

It looks like you didn’t change the colors alpha value. Make sure the alpha is at 255, not 100 like it is by default. Are you using the palette’s source color values or overriding them? You should probably override them with higher values.

What value do you have for the blur? Maybe it’s too high to show much.

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1235/screenshot002ug.jpg