<p>Looks to me like a kind of &quot;chromatic aberration&quot; effect - where the red green and blue channels of an image are processed separately - sometimes shifted in position or blurred a little, then they are recombined back together. There are lots of ways to do this using built in plugins, or using 3rd party plugins <a href="https://www.redgiant.com/user-guide/universe/chromatic-aberration/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">such as Red Giant's</a>.</p>

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tomh
<p>Yes, that is subtle but nice.</p>
<p>I am not sure how you did the image. If it is a raster image I would duplicate and add a gaussian blur on it and add transparency.</p>
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<p>You could play with the transparency to make some zones sharper</p>
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<p>I redrew the image on the left in Blender, but I want to use AE to achieve the &quot;filmy&quot; look on the right. What type of effect did they use here? You can see from the corner of the screenshot the blue area and the black lines are almost glowing?</p>

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# What effect did they apply here?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-12)

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/S87ke.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/S87ke.jpg)

I redrew the image on the left in Blender, but I want to use AE to achieve the "filmy" look on the right. What type of effect did they use here? You can see from the corner of the screenshot the blue area and the black lines are almost glowing?

**Tags:** video, after-effects, effects, color-grading, blender


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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-01-12. Score: 1

Looks to me like a kind of "chromatic aberration" effect - where the red green and blue channels of an image are processed separately - sometimes shifted in position or blurred a little, then they are recombined back together. There are lots of ways to do this using built in plugins, or using 3rd party plugins [such as Red Giant's](https://www.redgiant.com/user-guide/universe/chromatic-aberration/).


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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-01-13. Score: 0

Yes, that is subtle but nice.

I am not sure how you did the image. If it is a raster image I would duplicate and add a gaussian blur on it and add transparency.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/e6z9b.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/e6z9b.png)

You could play with the transparency to make some zones sharper

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/XXL2D.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/XXL2D.jpg)


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