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Radium

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Jun 17, 2008, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by MoonBlazE View Post
I have a new question for you Radium: How do you do your glows? Such as the glow around the lightning or the glow in his eyes.
Gaussian Blur. For the eyes it's just a blurred, translucent circle over his eyes, and for the lightning it looks like I have a blurred copy of the lightning with Screen transparency.

One of my personal favorite ways to do glowy things is to copy the object, color the original and blur it, then use Ctrl+F to paste the copied object in the same place and make it white (example). The blurred object will "bleed" out from behind the edges of the white copy, giving it a nice glow just on its edges
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