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adding glow to lights that are off
Could anyone suggest a way to make the lights on a switch board light up and look reasonably realistic. I have a shot of the lights that are red, orange and blue but they never came on (lit up) while I shot them.
Appreciate any suggestions…..cheers…paul.
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duplicate layer, mask out light, blur, change blend mode to add, then duplicate as many times as necessary and adjust blur
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Another thing you could do would be to “light up” the edges of buttons surrounding the lit-up ones. Check out Andrew Kramer’s Tutorial on simulating the light of gun flashes for the technical aspect.
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Two more critical factors in selling a faked effect like this:
What else is in your shot that might reflect the lights? A Coke bottle on the control panel, a mirror, window or sunglasses?
Is there anyone or anything in the shot that would be lit up by the panel’s indicators?bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Hey guy’s thanks for the replies,
In the initial shot that I plan to use there are only the lights on a white panel shot from the side. I may use a wide shot of the panel and control room which has the operator in the shot.
The lights are small, about the size of the top of my thumb from th knuckle but given that we are all different in size that may not mean much. When they did light up they were not really bright enough to light up anything.
Cheers…Paul.
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