Pro Light-wrap Plugin Free
Destini Armstrong
Light-wraps are an effective and underutilized technique that improves the realism of a compositor VFX. These simulate the apparent diffusion of extremely bright lights around a foreground, helping to integrate the composited layer into the background. This visually blends the two different layers, creating a cohesive unified final image.
An artist may also want to add a light-wrap for stylistic purposes to visually exaggerate the intensity of a source of light. For example, a dragon breath can be given a stronger light wrap to communicate its deadly heat; or the opening doorway of a UFO blinding the onlookers to reinforce their mysterious nature. Digitally, a pixel can only reach a maximum luminance of 1 (white), so to create a sense of limitless intensity, the implied brightness is reinforced by a light-wrap.
Light-wraps in After Effects work best when working in a 32-bit project with an sRGB linear workspace. This provides the most accurate color behaviours, which is especially important in the context of light-wraps. By utilizing a linear workflow, bright highlights in your backgrounds (whether from a sunset, or a bright energy blast) will create the correct intensities and falloffs in your foreground. We recommend using this for professional use.
This free light-wrap plugin in After Effects is ideal for compositing green screen footage. When shooting inside a green screen studio, the lighting conditions are unlikely to match the complex lighting arrangements of the intended background. Using a lightwrap helps to carry your foreground elements coloring closer to what is expected to be seen if the actor was really in the artificial scene.
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Features include Spill Remover, for instantly getting rid of the pesky light spills from the green screen; Light Wrap Spill, wraps a background image onto the spill region, and Primatte Studio, the Academy Award-nominated chroma key tech.
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The Light Wrap Fantastic enables better composites by easily allowing users to blend the background with the foreground in such a way that it appears the light of the background is affecting the foreground. Essentially simulating backlighting. The plugin has all the controls you need to create a realistic light wrap making it a quick and easy process.
GPU acceleration allows the plugin to render HD and 4K footage quickly. It easily fits into whatever workflow you use when compositing with a variety of options and modes. This flexibility and speed make it the perfect choice for video editors, colorists and compositors.
Light wrapping is a compositing technique designed to blend keyed out green screen footage with a background plate. When done correctly, light wrapping can really help give realism to your scene. If overdone, it can make your footage look soft and unbelievable.
In a nutshell, light wrapping works by softening the hard edges produced when keying out a green screen footage. By adding in a feathered portion of the background to the edges of the keyed subject you can make your scene look more like a composition than a series of layers. Check out the following diagram:
Even though light wrapping is a pretty straightforward concept there is a seemingly endless number of ways to create a good light wrap. The following tutorials illustrate a few ways to tweak and manually create a light wrap.
A lot of higher end keying applications have light wrapping built-in, including the Keylight software that comes with Adobe After Effects. However, if you want to get stunning light wraps check out a few of our favorite plugins for creating realistic light wraps:
Serving as a small portion of the larger Boris Continuum Complete, the Key and Blend pack gives users of After Effects, Premiere, FCPX, Resolve, Nuke, Media Composer, and even Scratch the ability to preform realistic light wraps with ease. The pack comes with 20 plugins and filters designed to help with the compositing process. Boris is also offering a free trial of Key and Blend so you can use it today.
If you want to learn more about other filmmaking concepts check out the video production section of the PremiumBeat blog. We have hundreds of articles and tutorials dedicated to helping you become a better filmmaker.
Oniric generates its glows based on the luminosity of the input image constrained by a threshold setting. Oniric is so flexible that it lets you control the glow opacity, size, exposure, light dispersion, and color. It generates two kinds of glows: Diffuse glows and light streaks. When light streaks type is enabled, you are able to control the rotation and streaks details. Oniric uses a real inverse square law algorithm to simulate a realistic light falloff the same way light is perceived in real life."
Composite Nation reached out to me during the launch of Oniric to see if I was interested in reviewing it. As someone who creates a lot of fantasy and composite work, I was excited to give it a try, because light glow can be time-consuming to believably manufacture in Photoshop, and anything that speeds up my workflow sounds like a good idea.
Composite Nation has a couple of helpful tutorials on their website, and once I finished watching them, I felt comfortable getting to work. I had a few photos in my catalog that were good candidates for Oniric, but I also wanted to create a few new pieces specifically for running the plug-in through its paces. I wanted to know if it would be as good for delicate work as it is for larger effects.
The learning curve is pretty shallow, and after a couple of false starts, I found working with the plug-in easy. Before we get into the nuts and bolts of how Oniric works, though, let me show you what it does.
It's also important to note that Oniric mimics the color of whatever colors are brightest but that certain colors are inherently lower in luminosity, and Oniric will not find them as easily, as seen with the X-ray option selected.
Nicole York is a professional photographer and educator based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. When she's not shooting extraordinary people or mentoring growing photographers, she's out climbing in the New Mexico back country or writing and reading novels.
Really would like to buy this but, I feel the same way about how much use am I really going to get out of it. If and when it goes on sale Ill probably pick it up. Until then I'm pretty sure I can mimic everything it does in PS.
It's certainly worth considering. I'm really grateful to have used it, because it's speeds up my workflow and makes a big difference in image quality and atmosphere, but *most* of what I make has some element of compositing to it, so that makes a difference.
Hi Kip, the thing is that real professional looking glows are not that easy to achieve in Photoshop. It's a very thorough and manual process. Everybody does them differently, but generally it's done by stacking layers in linear or color dodge and screen modes with gaussian blurs, and other stuff (this doesn't cover at all the process). I've been using this pluging for a while now and you can totally see a very talented artist was behind the project, since the glows look very realistic. The light fall off is just amazing. The thing is that it is a huge time saver, since you just move the sliders and you can achieve any look you want. It has become a huge part of my editing process now. Check out their webpage it is on sale now, if you're interested.
This reminds me a lot of Knoll Light Factory which I used with Photoshop for years until they stopped updating the Photoshop version of the plugin and it stopped working. I would buy this in a heartbeat if it had a stand-alone app but I am one of those users who has left Adobe behind...
When people say I'm too harsh about Adobe's lack of innovation and I see third party companies creating stuff like this, or all the red giant and Video Copilot plugins for premiere and after effects. They see it too and then come out with an updated selection tool and minor updates every six months. It's a joke and an insult.
I don't think Adobe has any intention of changing, they haven't released any new features that I'd say meaningfully move my workflow forward in years now and performance has become worse and worse with every new update. I finally just gave up a few months ago and am not using Affinity. (Which also isn't sensational but at least I'm not paying a monthly sub to Adobe anymore)
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