Bloom+Transparency in Blender Eevee and Cycles +Export To .png

Exporting bloom from Blender seems impossible without ruining how it originally looked. In this video I'll show you exactly how to get Bloom with transparency and how everyone has been doing it wrong. Enjoy the ride!
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0:00 Introduction
0:51 Explanation
8:28 How Add works
11:38 Working method
13:09 Getting it working with Cycles
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[@tallyman138]

I do the render with black background, open the image in GIMP and use the function 'color to alpha' (set to black). Ready. I'm totally satisfied with the result.

[@GameAbuseStudios]

Just tested it out, that's pretty cool! The only thing I see off about it is the bloom not adding brightness to the images below. I will definately keep this in mind if I don't want the additive effect, Thanks for sharing!

[@MindfulMusingsTome]

awesome!

[@okashusmani6773]

Tallyman this video is trash. The only thing that still works is your workaround.

[@franzmeier4472]

damn was about to post this.

[@rito202]

Ii would've tried the same thing on Krita: just render on black background run Color-to-Alpha on background color. Thanks for posting so that we could hear back the video author's comparison. Thank you to the author too. One of most dedicated and problem-solving video to those who are desperate.

[@corujabiruta3732]

you took an astonishing amount of time in a lack of bloom rampage

[@GameAbuseStudios]

Glad you noticed, I had corona virus.

[@f4ust85]

Jesus, the time it takes to articulate what every PS guy knew for years: just render it on black and blend it on Screen as a layer under the transparent version...

[@Daniel-nb3kk]

Thanks! :)

[@lelesinteri]

Oh my god you actually did it, this is the correct way to do it. I cant believe this, actually saved my half year long project and it was so simple and is part of the basic color theory. Thank you for being literally the only one to get this right! This also fixed the problem where i couldnt render volume with transparent background.

[@user-ui2ql9gi2p]

Same problem , best solution 😊

[@Itschotsch]

LMAO I had read through every single artice and post you've mentioned in the video, my links were just as purple as yours. Quite funny to see someone else have the exact same experience. :D

[@TheMastrBuilder]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!! I didn't even search up my problem yet. I was just looking on youtube about bloom when I saw this and clicked on it. Who knew that this would fix my problem! I thought my compositor was not working, however, its just that bloom doesn't work with transparency. But you helped me fix that. You are a legend, you deserve 100 million subs!

[@nirubansatchithanandakumar3266]

dude. This is freaking amazing. Love your process, its so methodical, and your analysis is superb. Some Sherlock Holmes level stuff! Thanks for this!

[@_poppo]

I just want to say I really love the part that you literally clicked through EVERY SINGLE PAGE in the search results.

[@guilhermebento9227]

Man! I loved your video, this humor is treasure! You almost caugth me in that fake end LOL. Thank you so much for the tutorial I wanna try this soon in one of my works. Sending you good vibes from Brazil!

[@aintzanewilma1269]

you're literally a lifesaver!! couldn't imagine where would i be hadn't i watched this tutorial

[@israelosilva]

the second options pleases me more as it makes the whole work in blender itself , that is what I think it should be able to do it first place without the need of opening any other editing software at all. Thank for your BRIILLIANT insight . pun intended.

[@Lishababyyy]

Dude your videos make me laugh so damn hard keep up the amazing work

[@MikelKiriakos]

Great video! I had to rewatch a few times but got there in the end :) great result! well done!!!

[@herbiep.5837]

Not even halfway through the tutorial and already subscribed. Love the craft and the way you managed the narrative!

[@lintg4822]

This yt channel is underrated af. Your vids are really entertaining

[@NmMindstorm]

I liked this video so hard. Been spending hours on this Thank you

[@danbreland3444]

That was cool! Thank you so much. This really helps. Thanks for taking the time to figure this out!

[@BrysonPrice]

What's the process if you have multiple layers? Because I've followed this on a project where there were multiple layers and some of the elements bleed into each other

[@shaunscm]

Thank you! I tried all the other work arounds, and then started wonder why even in the multu-layer exr the bloom was still black, and came across your video. The "add" solution should have been obvious, but some how you are tge only one who figured it out!

[@captaincarl]

To do this without rendering twice, just set up a separate File Output node in the compositor and feed the Alpha channel into it. Uncheck 'Use alpha' in the main composite node. Then you'll get both separate files in one render process. Then just invert the alpha pass in your compositing app to make it black-on-transparent and use this method. This resulted in some white fringe so then just set the inverted alpha layer to Multiply.

[@yigitkizilay]

umm can you eleborate more i added another node but couldn't get two seperate pngs

[@GameAbuseStudios]

The output options are over to the right side of the compositor with the output node selected, but they’re possibly (probably) hidden by default. Pressing N on your keyboard should make the options pop up, in those options you can setup multiple file outputs which will make the node grow as many yellow input pins (color data) as desired. Whatever you plug in will output to the file location you specify for each output upon rendering. Edit: Forgot to mention that it's a node you have to add called "File output" and also after jumping into blender to make sure I'm accurate, it seems the options are in the top tab of those options (Tab called "Node") then hidden under a drop-down menu called "properties" where finally you can hit "Add input".

[@Vido89]

@@GameAbuseStudios can you please post picture of node setup, Im beginner

[@MikaBoMS]

What I did is I plugged the Alpha in a ColorRamp, defined the values as transparent and black, and did the rest of what the vid explains. So I can use Add in there, not Multiply.

[@wyomingcreations8824]

You video has captured my interest and has introduced many cool ideas.

[@eminentstudios8644]

how would i go about exporting an animated 3D logo with bloom and transparent background? do i need to do this to every frame?

[@hoppalapasam53]

can u pls explain how did you manage the layers with divinci resolve. i mean i cant just find the how to change the layer color black, and after exporting png image sequence, clip still has no transparency.

[@iskullyi910]

Using additive is wonderful, I use it all the time for particles that I want to have similar glow effect. The issue I run into is when a customer wants a cutout transparent image, with the bloom effects. I recently did a render of a starship for someone's book, they asked me to make it a fully transparent image so they could simply apply it onto the page. I did explain to them the issues surrounding that, and how using a black image with additive applied would work even better. They insisted on having the image already be transparent and were happier with the awful bloom I had to mix in myself through photoshop. It's unfortunate that we can only have the two options, but that's how the programming and rendering works, can't change that.

[@grigorescustelian6012]

aaaaa, have you watched the solution actually? That's what this clip is about. You have to combine them in PS or something

[@adri.progression]

I really appreciate your thoroughness and the fact that you provided all of the necessary context and reasoning behind your decisions, so we can actually learn the process, why it works, and how we can expand upon it instead of us mindlessly copying your solution. Great humor, amazing narrative arc, and an extremely triumphant denouement to the Renderer's Struggle. 🙏🏽👏🏽

[@johnaquino7619]

Seconded. Getting everything clearly defined in an engaging way which still gets to the point without guessing? Excellent. 🙂 Please keep digging up more of these "mysteries" . Although, I think someone already did a thorough video on why pinches and puckers often show up on geometry and why this happens with tri's , quads and n-gons.

[@bobbychezz2887]

i dont why but when start designing anything like car for eg i just cant get the flow of work the topology all mess up can somebody please help me.

[@the_stray_cat]

man you really should do more vids, you got some really good info .

[@Karzanius]

Thank you so much for this video!! Truly a time saver to get the best results

[@equinoxowl]

for me the additive layer renders with no background hence the bloom doesnt get applied, how to fix that?

[@DerekGoveDesign]

Good video. I love it when old techniques are rediscovered. Back before using transparent PNGs for compositing, I pretty much copied the method pioneered by ILM when optically compositing shots for Star Wars. They filmed against a blue screen which was used to create background and foreground mattes. This allowed them to create footage of the object against a black background, and a background with an object-shaped black area. When these two pieces of film are combined in the optical printer, you have your composited shot. In my 3D work, I duplicated this, using an inverse of my 8-bit alpha channel set to 'multiply' against the background, before using 'screen' or 'add' to 're-expose' that area with my object rendered against a black background and saved as a 24-bit image. Your video just goes to prove that a lot of the time, the old ways are still the best! 🙂

[@letsd0good]

ok so there is no way to actually save a png or exr with a transparent background with still maintaining the glare? with no backgrounds of videos or other images to composite it onto etc.

[@eliserwiedemann5221]

Wow, this was something I've been trying to solve for so long but wasn't ambitious enough. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, this is really valuable knowledge.

[@Gumals]

Ok. Now I have a different question. Is there an option to do the same thing as with the "shadow catcher" but i also want the bloom or light to be visible on that object, but without seeing the object?

[@Steedie]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is what I hate about these "help" forums. There's too many people there just to grind up their reply count, commenting "I found the answer in 30 seconds on Google" then linking a completely unhelpful or unrelated answer on another forum. It's just so demotivating trying to ask for help when you know you'll get this answer 99% of the time.

[@RuniRiot]

I have been searching for an answer to my problem because I've been trying to render something all day and it came out wrong everytime. Seeing all the places I went to and then saw again in your video was really funny. I'm used to making things with Cycles but for this particular project I needed Eevee. I came across your comment on another video on how to fix this issue and I AM SO HAPPY I DID! Your video needs more views, man

[@madcativ]

With all my heart, thank you very much!!! OuO, I've spent a lot of time searching for a solution and this is it

[@Planet-Cable]

Head's up: I know this video is two years old, so maaaaybeee this wasn't a thing back then, but as of today, OBS Studio _can_ blend properly, the method is just slightly different. You applied an "Image Mask/Blend" filter to the background image, and set the "Path" to the bloom image. The problem is that the black render isn't present with this method, so it only adds to the background. Instead, you can add both the black render and the bloom render as independent sources and set the bloom render source to appear on top of the black render source. Then, you can right-click on the bloom render source and set the "Blending Mode" to "Add". Should work flawlessly then! Hope this helps someone or maybe it won't idk I'm not your dad

[@temtor]

My man just went all game theory on this one your everything is perfect for this wth

[@pardismack]

This is the closest to the real solution, but it's not the ultimate solution. PNG is not the good format for this issue. Open-EXR is. Photoshop removes data from the RGB channels when they are transparent, but with the Exr-IO plugin, you can activate “Fix Transparent light Emitters" when importing the image. You'll get a single image that has the transparency and the color information of emission without using the "Linear dodge (add)" mode, or any mask. It works right off the bat. If you want to have the passes and compose things manually, then yes. the "Add" Blend mode is the right one. simply activate the "Bloom" pass in Blender (Eevee) then render to have the bloom pass (instead of having to render twice).

[@CristianSCG]

This should have more likes. Its a good solution for images with transaprent background🤟

[@user-sm5ni7xn6y]

oh god I finally found this. really thanks for sharing your solution. god bless you

[@Mysticfox4]

I just started getting into 3d and this is Super applicable to just making artwork in general! I had this issue a long time ago and wasn't able to make effects in photoshop saved as png because of this similar issue, I'm super happy that now I'm able to do just that! Awesome Video!

[@buddysadventuregame1255]

man I like the way you make your videos but GODDAMN you take your sweet time coming to the explanation

[@GameAbuseStudios]

Yeah, sorry about that. I'm newish to KZbin and I'm trying to get away from doing that.

[@xir8]

What the correct way to save my png on MediaBang Paint? I mean, i have bloom but i don't no how save it's transparent. i don't use this progame before.

[@leucome]

I was thinking wtf is this. Bloom is not that hard to add. So I guess I already knew.

[@Qu1_qu3_TTV]

Yeah how can i do this without medibang, gimp or any other software. i just want to compile the sequence in blender, can u explain me this please?

[@marc-antoinegiguere6323]

Thats pretty freaking cool. Would love to see a video of how you got the 3D version (cube) at 6m49 (export, import, everything) since I'm pretty new to all of this and could use exactly this in a game I'm developing!

[@GameAbuseStudios]

I can do a video if you want me to. there's someone here in the comments who asked me about getting it set up and I went into detail for them. not sure if it's very understandable but you can find my replies to TwistedWizardy under his comment (He's the one with the big red logo with a thumbs down). I think that should get things working for you but if you have any questions or any problems with it please feel free to let me know. I will gladly do a video.

[@masonbennett4095]

I saw 99 subs and made it a 100. Great video!

[@GameAbuseStudios]

lol, I watched it go up.😁

[@rage3d751]

What about if you want to render this with multiples objects in it and not ALL are emiting?

[@sleeve-tv]

GREAT EDITING thank you

[@emptyvberlin1431]

You made my day!!! Thank you so so much!!

[@MarcNewhard]

This guy blooms. Seriously, you saved us all a ton of time and effort. Also thank you to Tallyman for the GIMP shortcut.

[@ysfdesign]

Appreciate the explanation.

[@oeuvrehui]

this man is einstein in blender world. i use blender for 4 years and still have no idea how to render with bloom. thank you G.A.S

[@KemalH]

By following your steps, but using premier pro, I was able to to get the bloom to show over a screenshot like you did by using the additive blending effect. When I hide the screenshot background layer though, I don't see transparency through the top layer, but when the background layer is visible, there is transparency with the top layer. I'm a bit confused about how this works. My end goal is to find a way to export this animation with bloom and transparency to a webm file so I can get the bloom effect in OBS Studio. Is there a way to do this? I'm getting Davinci Resolve now to see if the results are any different with that software. Thanks for any help!

[@dhruvverma2951]

Same. The real aim was having that image with an transparent background. He did not show how he exported that image in medibang.

[@Vido89]

@Game Abuse Studios can you please post image of how to setup nodes and compositing so I get bloom + transparency in .png final render ?

[@asfdirt]

nice and very helpful

[@DPLawlorFilms]

holy mother of god, it worked. Your sarcastic frustrated tone is exactly what this fucking subject needed. Thank you for really taking the time to stop the madness.

[@volodyagorov]

Bro you are amazing!

[@chillegaming1837]

YOU ARE FREKIN UNDERRATED !!! The way you make tutorials is actually very creative ,I really want you to have more than a Million subscribers !!!!!!

[@GameAbuseStudios]

Thanks!

[@Viluron]

Oh wow, i knew about the "Add" method before and already used it many many times for editing images and overlaying stuff to images but i never thought of that. And once you showed that the blooms suddenly disappears once the background is white it just clicked for me to and the black background and Add method immediately came into my head. Its amazing that apparently no one has thought of this before

[@ooLEVEVANIoo]

Someone please help me… i need to print objects with bloom effect on tshirts, this solution only gives me digital “transparent” bloom but printers cant read “add mode” ( any idea how to approach this problem?

[@GameAbuseStudios]

You could probably save the bloom into a final image using a solid color as the background, The issue though is matching the color of the shirt and unfortunately bloom is completely incompatible with the color white. not to mention ,unless I'm mistaken of course, shirt printer's print with a gunky colored paint like substance, so getting any bloom to spill over that boundary is next to impossible. If I was to go about trying to get bloom on a shirt I'd probably deliberately cut it off with a nice grungy pattern. I'd also only print on dark colored shirts.

[@maayanon1247]

wow! i had this exact problem 2 months ago, THANKS!

[@coolorochi]

I have a similar workflow, The only difference is I use black layer below transparent layer so I'm not changing bright to black. EDIT after test: Your method is far more flexible, My first test results in object is too dark for a bright background image. Usually I use curve to adjust it. By your method, adjusting the brightness of transparent layer make a fast and convenient composite! Awesome 👍👍👍

[@CUCHIPOBU]

When i try to export the image from medibang it isnt transparent

[@maryelljazz]

you're a genius and. just saved my work thx a bunch 🥰

[@Ayeato]

what if i want to do it with an animation? Im not going to do this for hundreds of different frames

[@GameAbuseStudios]

Check out the very last part right before the end. I explained how to do it without re-rendering twice using mix nodes and output nodes in the compositor. Edit: also most video editors support image sequences, layering, and blending modes. I've been using blender for video editing as of late, and it's better than davinci resolve so I'm not about to turn back!

[@kysotope]

Great video, but I just have one question. So in the Medibang part, I got the black background to disappear after adding the screencap beneath all the layers just as you did. I may sound like a total noob here, but can I save/export the picture on Medibang without the screencap showing and instead have a transparent background while maintaining the bloom effect?

[@emielv8365]

i have same problem, did you find a solution?

[@starbrine2020]

same problem, this is exactly what I need, not having a background. I need the bloom on the transparent PNG as if that was too much to ask

[@Droptima1]

Major help, I did sooo many tutorials and all were causing undesirable results.. Is there anyway however...to end with a transparent background PNG with the glow, not just put this into an asset with a opaque background to pop it? I work in game dev and our system currently unfortunately uses transparent PNG sequence icons for symbols. I want them to glow. My pitch to them is to composite in the game engine just like you did with blacked out PNG sequences and the glows w/ Add. They're not happy with 2x the assets and being forced to apply a blend mode. Is there anyway to go from the photoshop or after effects/ etc step and crush these into a single PNG?

[@GameAbuseStudios]

Unfortunately not when using "add" as a blend mode. However if you're using an engine that can place materials directly into the 2d UI space i.e unreal engine, then you can pull a few tricks to make only the image containing the bloom act as the secondary black image without having to call on an extra texture since that would take up precious resources. If you're in unreal engine I could totally set that up and send a few screenshots, but unfortunately I'm unfamiliar with any other engine at the moment. Having said that, a secondary image underneath wouldn't be much of a problem as long as it isn't being done with every single element of your UI. Just using it here and there won't cause any issues and if you have access to the texture filtering settings you can set that to something like "cubic" (as its known in blender) to make the pixels much smoother around the edges of the silhouette and just use a smaller texture for that silhouette. Sorry I can't be of much help right now since I don't know what engine you're using.

[@mytopcomics]

I watched this a year ago, but I completely forgot about this trick... now it's like a lifesaver ;)

[@Lance_G]

Thank you from the depth of my soul

[@Julian-cc6ly]

but in my case I need the png for printing and when I export it in add mode the background is still black, what can I do?

[@GameAbuseStudios]

Printing on paper? technically add won't work on anything pure white, even if it's pulled into the real world. You could try tallyman's method (unless I'm misunderstanding) that should work with paper. Edit: Forgot to mention that tallyman is here in the comment section and that I've pinned that comment.

[@xanhetu6034]

Hey friend, I am making a chrome logo in blender and i have an image im using as my world for the reflection... How can I maintain my reflection and add a light emission on my logo and export that with its bloom? (Sounds like of complicated, not even sure it can be done)

[@northrain0462]

Thanks a lot, that was awesome. Unfortunately I need a transparent background too, so I need to find another method but now it's clear how eevee works!

[@yaooooooooooooooooooo_oo]

I'm sorry but i just can't understand how i should use those 2 images when i render in cycles. I'm stupid I know but i can't figure that out

[@TheAverageJoeBro]

Alpha Add and Alpha Subtract are very common in the VFX, Film and Motion industry. I think taking a look or poking around in film and video forums you might have found the answer sooner. We use black, screens, white screens, green screens, and blue screens all for various reasons. I’m newish to 3D animation, but my training in the film industry has me default to black screening for any transparent bloom effects I need outside of blender.

[@spaderkungskuk]

I went through the same stages of rage seeing all other solutions just copying one flawed solution. This works great with two images layered. But there has to be a way to make one single png, and have the outside bloom with alpha. Seems like a lot of work to add a bloom icon to videos or images otherwise. And now I see the pinned comment about gimp almost answers this.

[@GameAbuseStudios]

I don't really know how other video editing programs handle it but Davinci Resolve is just drag and drop. To me, doing all this image or video wise is not a lot of work, but figuring it out was. I noticed yesterday that it seems to be a much harder thing to achieve than I had first thought when I saw the loading screen on Monster Hunter World using the flawed solution. I'm going to have to look into this a bit more and see what programs can handle using this method because without additive it won't add and with additive it won't look good without the second layer.

[@spaderkungskuk]

The second layer made black becomes a mask to prevent the object itself to be added twice i realised, resembling the other solutions... I hobby use blender, but was sure that creating bloomed mpegs for animated overlays would be industry standard in vfx.

[@GameAbuseStudios]

Yeah probably, I just have some kind of complex that tells me I have to have the best so I steer clear of using anything with lossy compression until I have to use it😅 Edit: figured out a few days ago that blender can't export transparent video files, so exporting to Mpeg won't work at all for this. Edit of Edit: Actually after some testing it looks like it can (Internet lied to me again) however it's forced to be in standard color space (just like how OpenEXR forces it to be standard) so the bloom is off color (Since it's standard) and it looks fuzzy.

[@Kovek1988]

Your my life saver. Imagine the world without me with jedi lightsaber...Now im the faking jedi :P

[@aahritya_tv]

wtf bro, you arae genious! been using Add since years never thought it could be done this way!!

[@surfacevision]

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! At last after all these years the problem is finally solved! THANK YOU!!!

[@lorenzoscz]

It works, but i didn't figure out how to save the image without background, following the tutorial at the end you always have a background (the blender's image)... Anyone can help me ?

[@AKAHatter]

I was yelling "Glare node!" the whole time lol

[@linjianru]

Sometimes you google for a problem and find no one knows the solution. And finally, when you figure it out, you are the first one. So remarkable, man, you saved us!

[@sadicus]

That was the most educational rant. vertices of the mind merged

[@magiczipper7938]

Is there a way to do this all in blender, and not have to rely on another program?

[@Hey_PT3D]

This is insane. Great tutorial

[@youlist]

Thank you, this is genius.

[@yaaasmin6083]

You literally save my job, thanks u so much

[@Bananeisafree]

Welp. That was the answer I was looking for a bit. Thank you buddy.

[@XYZ-qh7rx]

I sure as hell am going to hit that like button. And subscribe, damn it.

[@markclay2338]

Hi can you get the medibang layer add function in photoshop?

[@MultiMonkey1986]

how did you do this process with an image sequence? surely you don't have to manually go in and do this with every single frame

[@tititityyrs]

I did render two sequences seperately as webm and bright layer as add and other black as normal

[@urickyo5370]

I’ve never wanted to hit the like button so badly like I did for this video :)

[@lordphantasmus1810]

how would I export an animation of a moving object with this method EXCLUSIVELY in blender? EEVEE

[@ahmedsouody1765]

Very helpful thank u

[@dvrkroast]

hopefully someone can help me out even though this video is a year old, also maybe i’m dumb but…. i get the same result of the video however…. i want to export the result without the background. like once we get to the layering and multiplying point, it’s stated we need something behind it to trigger the transparency. which is true but… then what? any sort of exporting from there requires a background. how do you get the transparent object you were dragging around in the video? it’s seems i need to keep whatever background i put in. i know this is a me problem

[@nickwold]

Running into the same problem, I can find no way to export the additive layer without a background, that seems like it's be the whole point of this! Anyone have a solution?

[@chrisaelus6258]

So in short, set the background in black, export, and composite in photoshop from color to alpha?

[@GameAbuseStudios]

You can use the color to alpha method if you want to. It just won't glow on the image/s below but seems to be the best alternative to real (additive) bloom. A short explanation of my method is to render two images, one without transparency with the background set to black and the other image rendered with the object itself set to black and the background set to transparent. We need the black image to block colors from the images below when we set the one containing bloom to "add". Because add is additive (literally using addition) it will leave the original colors alone, only adding the values in the bloom's color channels to the images below. So anything you're using add on will leave the other colors in there unless you block it, hence the reason for the black silhouette. because add works by literally adding values on the R, G, and B channels the colors added to a black image (Red 0, Green 0, Blue 0 = black) will never be different than the original image containing bloom. So you can use it with literally anything of any detail and not lose any of the original look + True bloom in .png format.

[@KemalH]

I found out how to get bloom to show up in OBS studio. Its similar to what you described. Place both videos in a group in one of your scenes. Place the one with no transparency on top and the one with transparency below. My initial mistake was to try using the Image Mask/Blend filter. Don't use this, as it won't work. What you do is right click the non transparency video that's on top, then go to Blending Mode, then choose Additive. Now to make sure both videos are in sync, in each of their properties, turn on Restart playback when source becomes active and leave both of them visible. When you want to turn them on and off, change the visibility of the group they are in. There didn't seem to be any need to apply any changes to the brightness to either video layer in OBS. I hope that helps others who were struggling with getting bloom to show up in OBS. 🙂 Thanks so much to Game Abuse Studios for figuring out how to do this in video/image editing software in the first place and sharing it. Definitely couldn't have figured this out without your video.

[@chemistrybro_]

How do i actually get the Transparent Image with bloom though?? Or is its only usable with this method within Medibang?? I dont understand how to take the 2/3 layers and actually export a transparent PNG with bloom? youuuuu no explain this partt :( :(

[@pivnich7513]

Hello, I don't understand why, but Add node doesn't do anything to the backgroud for some reason. I link them like you did in the video but it has no effect whatsoever. I'm using HDRI with transparency

[@petrohands2406]

thanks for the great tutorial, I've tried it with fire on cycles, it got very bright and the other objects as well

[@JuniorStreetCrew]

i dont understand why blender dont fix this problem like make it an easy function...