Bloom & Glare Multi-Pass

[mrittman]

Hey guys, I'm trying to do some compositing work and want to export my bloom and glare as a separate file so that I can composite in After Effects. However, I'm wondering why my bloom and glare is exporting color information. Shouldn't it just be black and white, showing where the highlights are? Am I doing something wrong?

[houska]

That seems to be correct. After all, the highlights do have color themselves... If you want, you can just desaturate the pass.

[mrittman]

Oh okay, thanks Houska. Using the "Lighten" blending mode in Photoshop seems to show a decent result.

Maybe the note on the bottom of this page needs updated now?
https://help.c4d.corona-renderer.com/support/solutions/articles/12000019796-how-to-use-bloom-and-glare-

[houska]

Oh, that's interesting. Thanks for the heads-up! We'll check it out...

[mrittman]

Yeah for sure man! It was mainly just that bit at the very end saying it renders completely black. Thanks again for the quick response!