Create Better Glows in After Effects

Create Better Glows in After Effects

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Joey Korenman : So I need to raise that. So I'm gonna raise that up. But in doing that, I've actually lowered the intensity as well. So now I need to crank that back up. So it's this constant dance t…

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Joey Korenman : So I need to raise that. So I'm gonna raise that up. But in doing that, I've actually lowered the intensity as well. So now I need to crank that back up. So it's this constant dance t…

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  1. 1 Music : [intro music]
  2. 2 Joey Korenman : Hey there, Joey here for school of motion. And in this lesson, we'll be taking a look at how to build a better glow effect than what after effects has to offer us right out of the box…
  3. 3 Joey Korenman : And when you have images with lots of contrast, um, especially when you shoot these things on, on film, a lot of times you'll get natural gloves and that's why compositors and motion …
  4. 4 Joey Korenman : Um, so what I'm gonna do is go up to effect and I'm just gonna add stylize glow. All right. So there you go. There's your glow. Now, the first thing I don't like about the glow effect…
  5. 5 Joey Korenman : So I need to raise that. So I'm gonna raise that up. But in doing that, I've actually lowered the intensity as well. So now I need to crank that back up. So it's this constant dance t…
  6. 6 Joey Korenman : In my opinion, if I add the glow effect, uh, to this layer, and all I've done is created a quick little comp to show you guys, uh, with just a shape layer in it on a gray background. …

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