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Is there any tutorial or good step-by-step explanation on how to get a Backlight effect using TVPaint ?

Hi Dan,

here is a quick how to do :

* Choose the Magic Wand Select tool of the main panel
* In the tool panel increase the expand parameter and the smooth parameter.
* Click on the background behind your character. (I suppose this background have only one color or is transparent).
* Open a new layer.
* Fill in the selected area with the white color by using the floodfill tool of the main panel.

You can also use the new Stylise > Toonshading effect with the parameters below :

Remember that the new Color > Image Source effect combined with the Stylise > Toonshading effect in a FX-stack can allow you to have the backlight pixels on a layer different than the layer with your character.

Thanks for the quick respond fabrice !

I tried to do it as you said, kinda got lost while trying because my shots usually are so many layers (outline, color, highlight, tone, etc... <= all this for 1 character !) ...I wish TVPaint had Folders to group all those like in photoshop hehe.

Anyway, the screenshot I put for example is allready with backlight but not done in TVPaint, I just put it for example.

I'll try do something maybe more simple... then maybe I'll get the idea.
Thank you so much for the explnation, I hope I'll get it done.

dan wrote:Thanks for the quick respond fabrice !

I tried to do it as you said, kinda got lost while trying because my shots usually are so many layers (outline, color, highlight, tone, etc... <= all this for 1 character !) ...I wish TVPaint had Folders to group all those like in photoshop hehe.

Anyway, the screenshot I put for example is allready with backlight but not done in TVPaint, I just put it for example.

I'll try do something maybe more simple... then maybe I'll get the idea.
Thank you so much for the explnation, I hope I'll get it done.

Hi Dan !
If you are using many layers for your character, before adding any effect that Fabrice suggested, you just have to select this effect : Color > Source image and then select Display in the Source parameter.
It should be ok to do some quick tests

Here is the example above in tvp format.

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Hi Dan !
If you are using many layers for your character, before adding any effect that Fabrice suggested, you just have to select this effect : Color > Source image and then select Display in the Source parameter.
It should be ok to do some quick tests.

Good idea !
Dan, try it and report us the result

Thanks !
I’ve got the file you post and followed the settings you used and it works really cool, but one thing I wasn't sure about, the "Backlight" Layer, is it just an empty layer ? Because I didn't use the magic wand at all and it worked really awesome so I'm a bit confused but I think I should mess with it again.

Thank you for the kind help !

Excuse me, it seems my explanations were not clear enough.
In fact,

This :

* Choose the Magic Wand Select tool of the main panel
* In the tool panel increase the expand parameter and the smooth parameter.
* Click on the background behind your character. (I suppose this background have only one color or is transparent).
* Open a new layer.
* Fill in the selected area with the white color by using the floodfill tool of the main panel.

and this :

You can also use the new Stylise > Toonshading effect with the Color > Image Source effect.
etc ...

are two different methods that you can follow to obtain the same result.

(it's the spirit of the TVPaint technology, there are many ways to get what you need )

In the tvp file, the "Backlight" layer is empty in order you to choose which method you want to follow.
In you want to try the second method, you will find the Color > Image Source and Stylise > Toonshadow in the FX-stack attached to the project.
Just apply the stack to the empty "Backlight" layer and all should be ok.