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Bloom

Soft glow on the brightest areas

Bloom is the soft halo that spills out of bright spots — the glow you see around a candle or a neon sign in the dark. It makes highlights feel genuinely luminous instead of just light-colored.

I. Made with Bloom

  • alphabet series / X by @goodbytes
  • Specimen 257 — Nymphaea alba by @goodbytes
  • alphabet series / C by @goodbytes
  • slow orbit by @goodbytes
  • Spectrum Rip by @goodbytes
  • Night-Vision by @Stinkiewinki
  • alphabet series / R by @goodbytes
  • HIDDEN by @Inkrat
  • DEPTH by @Inkrat
  • BATTLE OF YAVIN by @Hyena
  • 315 on cara by @goodbytes
  • oni by @goodbytes

II. Everything else

  • 2D Light — A positioned light over the layers below — glow or spotlight
  • Beam — A beam of light over your scene — line, cross, star, ring, triangle or viewport frame
  • Cast Light — Daylight through leaves, a blind or a window — warm where it lands, cool in the shade
  • God Rays — Shafts of light thrown by the bright parts of the layers below
  • Rain — Rain falling in front of the picture, or running down a wet, fogged window over it
  • Sheen — Reads brightness as height and lights it — gloss, relief and thin-film colour
  • Vignette — Shade the frame edges, or cut them away so the layers below show through

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