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Lumen Glow is a $79 glow plugin for After Effects, Premiere Pro and Photoshop, with the same features on Mac and Windows. A preset saved in After Effects opens in Photoshop, and the other way round.
Bloom with an optical system behind it.
Lumen models what light actually does inside a lens. Eight scales of bloom, dispersion from real glass, and grain that grows inside the light.
Lumen is built as an optical system: how light scatters inside glass, how it disperses across wavelengths, and how it lands on film.
Real lenses don’t scatter light in a neat Gaussian. They throw a tight core with a long, faint tail that reaches clear across the frame. Lumen builds its bloom from eight cascaded blurs at geometric scales, summed under a single Falloff curve. Drop Falloff and the energy spreads into wide atmospheric haze. Raise it and the bloom collapses to tight halation hugging your highlights. One dial, the entire vocabulary of lens bloom.
Chromatic aberration built on actual optical dispersion curves (Crown, Flint, Fluorite, Dense Flint), sampling 700nm and 430nm against a 550nm reference. Radial, linear, or angular, around a decenterable optical axis, so it radiates from where the light actually is, not from frame center.
Every pass runs in linear 16-bit float. 32-bit super-whites survive to the composite intact, on an HDR-safe Screen blend that holds hue past unity.
A silver-halide crystal model that grows inside the light and rides its falloff, so your blacks stay clean.
Animated cellular noise moves through the glow, so the light breathes and drifts instead of sitting still. Set a loop length and it repeats seamlessly.
Stretch the bloom wide and compress it vertically for scope-lens flare.
Ownership
Lumen Glow is a perpetual license. The build you paid for keeps working, and nothing stops mid-project because a subscription ended.
From eight cascaded blurs at geometric scales, summed under a single Falloff curve, with chromatic dispersion sampled from real optical glass curves. Drop Falloff and the energy spreads into wide atmospheric haze; raise it and the bloom collapses to tight halation hugging your highlights.
No. It is a silver-halide crystal model that grows inside the light and rides its falloff, so the grain lives in the glow itself and your blacks stay clean.
Shimmer runs animated cellular noise through the glow, so the light breaks into soft cells that move and drift instead of sitting still. Set a loop length and it repeats seamlessly.
Yes. Lumen Glow runs in After Effects and Photoshop with the same features in both, on Mac and Windows. Apply it as a smart filter or a standard filter, and presets you save in one host open in the other.
Yes. Lumen Glow runs in Premiere Pro as a GPU-accelerated effect, on Mac and Windows. The installer also adds Lumen Transition, which is Premiere Pro only.
Yes. There is a 7-day trial. Renders carry a watermark until the trial key is activated in After Effects, Photoshop or Premiere Pro, and a trial key activates one machine.
Two machine activations, and two years of updates. Nothing expires mid-project.
Refunds within 7 days of purchase.
Want both? Entropy + Lumen Glow is $339, $39 less than buying them separately.
