hey everyone my name is andrik langfield and in today's video we're going to be taking a
look at a feature that i've been using quite a bit on all my projects here and
that is the glow feature under resolve so the two ways that i use this all the time is one
is for highlight recovery and the second way that i use it a lot is for adding an overall
glow image to your footage this kind of looks a little bit like the cinebloom
effect it adds a halation a little bit of a glow around specular highlights or blown out highlights
and this is why i like it a lot because before i had the cinder bloom filter i was trying to
emulate a little bit more of that film look film transitions from blow note highlights
to detail a lot smoother than digital does if you see digital image it'll go from pure white
to detail and without a gradient between them and that's what glow is going to help you to do
for a lot of different things the first we're going to look at is how to recover your highlights
in my first example here as you can see here this is my after this is my before i just did a quick
grade on this note here let's just delete this one and show you guys from the beginning we're going
to add a node before your grade you want to make sure that whenever you're using this glow effect
to recover your highlights make sure it happens before any other grade that you do so we're going
to hit shift s and that's going to add a node before we're going to call this one highlight
and then you're going to go to open effects once you go there you're going to look and search for
glow it's going to be right there you're just going to drag it and drop it it's going to do
this weird thing here that it always does just go ahead and go to composite and let's fix it
by get going to screen now when i'm working with skies i like using screen so i'll select screen
and then i crank up opacity all the way up this helps exaggerate what the effects is happening so
you can see where your threshold is going to be then we're going to play with a threshold
by bringing it down all the way up and you see right there we're going to play right between your
whites and detail we want to have a roll off from white to detail as smooth as we can almost as a
big gradient from white to detail i see that right there and i like it you can see here my waveform
that rather than having a hard cut from detail to straight white we're having this really nice round
roll off the next thing we're going to do is our spread i'm going to play with our spread now
the spread is going to well spread that blooming effect from this look which we want to stay away
from as much as we can go ahead and do something right in between which would be right about maybe
right about there then take your passage down all the way and we're just going to put it up
just ever so slightly until i see the effect almost blending the two the detail and the
white which is right about there i think now once you do that you'll see that on the buildings now
we're getting this kind of blooming effect if you like that then leave it i'm going to remove
it here just to show you how to do that i'm going to go to my luminance here under my qualifier and
i'm just going to bring up my low if you want to see what you're affecting hit shift h that's just
going to show you your selection here we're going to bring it until it takes over those buildings
we're going to soften it up like that and actually bring it back down a little bit so it doesn't get
into the sky once you do that hit shift h again to deselect it and now you can see your before
and you're after as you can see here's night and day between those two here i really like the look
and how we're able to do that the second way that i really like to use this is by adding an overall
glow to your image i'm going to switch clips to this one over here now i did a quick grade
here and we're actually going to add the glow rather than being before we're actually going
to add it after so i'm going to click alt s to add a note after we're going to call this glow
and we're just going to drag our glow after now once you do that again we're going to come here
and change it this time to soft light now you'll see that it looks a lot better coming after but
it's a little heavy so i'm going to bring my threshold all the way down to right about there
as you can see it adds some beautiful colors i'm going to bring my spread down a little bit
right about there and then my opacity you can play around with that i'm going to bring it all the way
down and back up so that's looking really nice i'm also going to play with my overall global blend
bring it all the way down and just bring as much as i want so now you can see that before and
after as you can see here it adds a little bit of saturation a little bit of contrast and an overall
blooming effect to the image as a whole it works great when you have sun when you have flares when
you have practical lights behind you or you're trying to make a light look like it's blooming
so that it doesn't go from pure white to detail but it kind of blends from highlights to detail
well i hope this quick video showing you the glow feature and how i like to use it was a help to you
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making more of these kind of things in the future i'll see you guys in the next video
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