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It looked flat.
: Dial in the Radius to control the spread of the light (up to 2,000 pixels). deep glow plugin after effects
Elias saw a checkbox labeled . He clicked it. It looked flat
The first thing Elias noticed was the speed. The standard glow effect usually forced a preview that turned his timeline bar green (rendering) for several seconds. With Deep Glow, the preview was almost instantaneous. He clicked it
He played with the built into the plugin. A subtle slider introduced a whisper of red and cyan fringing at the edges of the light. It was a small detail, but it sold the illusion. It stopped looking like a digital effect applied in post and started looking like light captured by a camera.
He realized he had been doing it wrong for years. He had been treating glow as a blur. Deep Glow treated it as light physics.
