Glowing edges effect

[dowhatnow]

I'm looking for a way to create an effect similar to the one shown at the end of the movie The Last Dragon (the one where there's this orange glow around the edges of one of the actors).

Any suggestions?

[blabbler]

got a pic?

[dowhatnow]

Sure thing. Either of these examples illustrate the idea.

http://mantisfists.files.wordpress.com/ ... honuff.jpg
http://media.photobucket.com/image/The% ... ragon8.jpg

[blabbler]

that's a bit quick and dirty, but i've done a crap key to isolate the character, then duplicated her a couple of times. the duplicates are placed below the 'main' image, they are blurred out a bit and blended in add mode.

it's gonna take some rough roto and/or keying to get the look you want, luckily the edges will be pretty forgiving if you glow over your subject (like the shot with the hands, just stick the duplicated layers on top), but you'll need to be fairly accurate if you want the glow behind.

edit: and you colourise the duplicated layers to get the particular glow that you want.

[Pas]

Quoted Image converted to link:
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j172/ ... 0/glow.jpg

No no no! You're doing it all wrong! It needs more... COLOUR!


I think we can all agree that this looks much better.

[post-it]

there is a "dirty" cheat to glowing but you'll need Photo software with Layers;
just cast different shadows from all four corners .. then define the shadows as "..color.."

the only problem will be doing each frame with that process

the good news is that you can Shadow on to the main character as if she were CG.

[blabbler]

richard of york gave battle in vain

[dowhatnow]

So, how would I go about all this in Premiere/AE/Photoshop?

[Zwill]

You could do it in Photoshop and use glow or export it then glow it in premiere.

[dowhatnow]

I'm guessing I'll need a plugin. Pro 2.0 doesn't seem to have it.