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I want to add a golden glow to my character. A outline with a glow. Like the "outer glow" feature in Photoshop. It is a image to plane video with a color node and a alpha node. Ive seen alot of tutorials on how to do this in evee but not in cycles. I know they have a feature for this in compositing in the "glare" node. But that is for the whole image not just the character.

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  • $\begingroup$ Can you post some reference image of desired result? Thanks $\endgroup$
    – vklidu
    May 21 at 16:37

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There are more ways to do that ... basically you need generate outline to be used as a mask.

If you have already alpha channel you can use Dilate/Erode node at Alpha socket for such mask ...

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... or use Inpaint node at Image socket.

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There is a plenty of variety to work with ... if you will be more specific I can extend my answer.

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Since your character is part of 3D scene you have to separate it ... in this example I used Render Layers.

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For that ...

  • All objects except character object keep in one Collection and character object in a new Collection.
  • In Outliner editor create a new View Layer with this setup ...
    (I named it accordingly, but you can choose what ever you like.)

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In compositor ...

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... or it depends on your goal (that I asked for already).

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  • $\begingroup$ Hello. that looks good but that is in compositing. How can i isolate my character in compositing because right now if i add those effects its going to be for the whole image $\endgroup$
    – Ricky Bascom
    May 22 at 13:45
  • $\begingroup$ it says my file is too big but the character is in the scene. It is a moving video file that was shot on the green screen. It uses two image textures. A color and a alpha to get the transparency. $\endgroup$
    – Ricky Bascom
    May 22 at 14:24
  • $\begingroup$ heres a google drive link drive.google.com/file/d/10n-nCSp9Lzl2kN0ORvE5oNcx62h6pZwl/… $\endgroup$
    – Ricky Bascom
    May 22 at 15:09
  • $\begingroup$ ok thank you. ive been to get this to work for awhile $\endgroup$
    – Ricky Bascom
    May 22 at 17:07
  • $\begingroup$ If solution works for you consider mark answer as accepted, so others can see it is solved from a main list and system is not pocking up your question repeatedly. You can change your mind any time. Thank you keep this site organised. $\endgroup$
    – vklidu
    May 24 at 7:04

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