Create a silhouette in a door opening

[Kevin Camp]

i have a feeling that there is something fairly simple that we are overlooking that is preventing yours from working correctly.

i hope you don’t mind, but, i put this together so you might be able to compare it to what you have. it’s a bit simpler than yours, but it works as described…

here’s screen shot…

and here’s the project (cs4)…

875_doorwayproject.aep.zip

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Tim Fast]

Yes, full size. No, no masks.

Kevin is it asking too much if you could build a simple composition as described above and post the result here? It would take like 10 minutes and we would get the answer what the problem is.

[Tim Fast]

Haha, while I were typing you did exactly what I asked for. 🙂 Thank you!

Anyhow, after I looked at your project, I realizes that I didn’t succeed to find the right combination between Threshold and Radius. I had higher values for both. I tried the same settings as you have and it worked better.

However, I still get some artifacts at the shadow and discoloration of the floor around it. So you do in your example. Besides, the lower Threshold I set, the more impact it has on the lightened parts of the walls which decreases the texture detail. In my final composition I will have the foreground lit well but the glow effect might interfere with it.

Anyhow, I guess I will have to play a little more with the settings and figure out how it works.

Thanks a lot for all your help! It feels really nice to know that there are people that spend there free time to help others to get better in something. 🙂