Handbook › Layer effects

Make your drawing glow

A glow is light spreading past the edge of something bright. In Rindraw the quickest way is the Glow filter: it puts a soft halo round everything on a layer, and stays live, so the glow follows as you keep drawing.

How to do it

Draw what should glow, a lamp, a neon sign, a spell, on a layer of its own.
In Layers, tap that layer, then tap it again to open its options.
Choose Filters, then Add Filter, then Glow.
Set its Size, Opacity and Color: a color a little lighter than the paint's glows most naturally.

Settings

Size: How far the glow spreads, 0 to 100 points.
Opacity: 0% to 100%.
Color: Any color. It starts a warm yellow.

Tips

Glow shows best against the dark: in Layers, tap Background Color and choose a deep blue or black, or paint the night in on a layer below.
For neon, draw the line nearly white and let the Glow's Color carry the hue: a white core with a colored halo reads as light, not paint.
For a stronger, hazier glow, Duplicate the layer, add Gaussian Blur to the copy from Filters, and set the copy's Blend Mode to Add, or Screen for a gentler light. Raise the blur's Amount to spread it.
Bloom, also under Add Filter, makes the brightest parts of a whole layer glow, as a camera lens does: Bloom sets how much glows, Transition how much of the darker tones join in, Size how far it spreads, and Burn how strong it is. Put it on a group to glow a whole scene.
The Luminance brushes paint light: Glow and Neon brighten where their strokes cross, so they glow as you draw, without a filter.
Filters stay live: draw more on the layer and the glow follows. To take one off, open it from Filters and tap Remove.

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Sources

Checked on October 27, 2026.

Procreate Handbook, Adjustments interface: four color adjustments and eleven filters, applied to the current layer.

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