auraGlow

auraGlow is an advanced multi-pass glow and bloom filter for Cavalry. The filter combines several blur passes to produce a fuller glow than a basic single-pass blur, with flexible highlight extraction, directional glow styles, color treatment, chroma spread, internal compositing, animated grain, and glow-only output for further processing. auraGlow supports even the largest radius glow effects with absolutely zero banding.

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Description

Main features

Flexible highlight extraction

Choose how the glow is generated from the source:

  • Luminance responds to perceived brightness.
  • RGB Max gives saturated colors more influence.
  • Alpha uses the source alpha as the extraction signal.

Threshold, Threshold Softness, Source Boost, and Highlight Bias make it possible to isolate only the brightest areas or pull glow from dimmer inputs.

Multi-pass glow and bloom

auraGlow builds the result across several blur passes, producing a layered glow with a bright core, broader body, and softer outer atmosphere. Radius and Intensity can be adjusted as needed, while Highlight Rolloff helps control overly bright cores.

Directional glow styles

In addition to a normal soft glow, auraGlow includes:

  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Cross

Glow Diffusion blends the directional styles back toward a more natural aura, so the result can range from sharp light streaks to a softer bloom.

Glow Styles: Normal, Horizontal, Vertical, & Cross

Color controls

Use Preserve Source to keep the original colors in the glow, or switch to Tint for a single chosen glow color.

Source Saturation, Tint Amount, and Chroma Spread provide additional control over the color response. Chroma Spread introduces RGB separation for spectral edges and more stylized results, ranging from subtle to dramatic.

Internal composite modes

auraGlow composites the source and glow internally, so Cavalry's native filter Blend Mode should normally remain set to Replace.

Available composite modes include:

  • Screen
  • Add
  • Soft Add
  • Color Dodge
  • Overlay
  • Linear Light

These modes range from soft, practical bloom to more aggressive high-energy effects.

Glow-only output

Enable Glow Only to isolate the generated glow. This is useful when working with duplicated layers, custom compositing, mattes, color treatments, or additional effects applied only to the glow.

Grain and quality controls

Grain can be added directly to the glow, with controls for amount, size, and animation speed.

Four quality modes are included:

  • Draft
  • Balanced
  • High
  • Ultra

Draft and Balanced are useful while working. High is the default, and Ultra uses additional blur samples for final-quality large glows. Keep in mind that higher quality values can increase the apparent glow radius.

Typical uses

auraGlow works well for:

  • Glowing titles and logos
  • Neon-style graphics
  • UI and interface elements
  • Bloom on bright shapes and illustrations
  • Directional light streaks
  • Soft atmospheric lighting
  • Isolated glow passes for compositing
  • General motion graphics

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Version History

1.0.2 -

Jul 22, 2026

- Clarified licensing info in quickstart guide

1.0.1 -

Jul 15, 2026

- Initial release on aescripts
- Added .manifest for aescripts manager app compatibility

Compatibility

Cavalry

1.5

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