Hi ya'll!
I'm looking for a way to apply a special glow around a layer to brighten the background layers in a gradient sorta way. Here's an example image:
So the first cat on the left is a regular layer with an Outer Glow effect attached. This is not what I want, as the glow only seems to slightly colorize the edges of the layer. What I want is for the glow to actually change the Brightness/Contrast of the layers beneath.
The cat-looking doodad in the middle is a combination of three Brightness/Contrast masks, ascending in size. Although the effect is similar to what I want, having to copy/paste masks and then resize/align them perfectly is a tedious and unreliable task.
I wonder if there is a way to apply the same kind of gradient glow that is present with the Outer Glow effect, but have it react to the background in the way that the Brightness/Contrast masks do - that is, actually brighten the surrounding pixels in the background layer(s).
Thxs!
I'm looking for a way to apply a special glow around a layer to brighten the background layers in a gradient sorta way. Here's an example image:
So the first cat on the left is a regular layer with an Outer Glow effect attached. This is not what I want, as the glow only seems to slightly colorize the edges of the layer. What I want is for the glow to actually change the Brightness/Contrast of the layers beneath.
The cat-looking doodad in the middle is a combination of three Brightness/Contrast masks, ascending in size. Although the effect is similar to what I want, having to copy/paste masks and then resize/align them perfectly is a tedious and unreliable task.
I wonder if there is a way to apply the same kind of gradient glow that is present with the Outer Glow effect, but have it react to the background in the way that the Brightness/Contrast masks do - that is, actually brighten the surrounding pixels in the background layer(s).
Thxs!
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