Is there a way to create a continuous, 3D and fading glow coming from a surface?

[Realm_SGG]

Hi, apologies if this is the wrong forum, I saw there is a tutorial category but it seems it's more for posting guides than to ask questions.

Is there a way to create a continuous glowing effect  being emitted from the surface, like shown below with multiple fading layers? I am trying to make the effect have the same volume throughout the front and back without it being visible that they are just multiple flat layers.

I can imagine creating the circle as a 3D cylindrical object in another program and then using that as a layer mask but is there a more efficient method?

Thank you

[firstdefence]

Do you mean something like this...

[Realm_SGG]

2 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Do you mean something like this...

Yes 😅

[firstdefence]

Ok this is done with the ellipse being repeated lots of times and moved by a small amount, all of those repeated ellipses are then grouped and an elliptical gradient applied to the group with the top part of the gradient having no or very little opacity and the base having about 50% opacity.

You can get a similar effect using a linear gradient.

Example file.

faded ellipse.afphoto

 

 

[Realm_SGG]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

Ok this is done with the ellipse being repeated lots of times and moved by a small amount, all of those repeated ellipses are then grouped and an elliptical gradient applied to the group with the top part of the gradient having no or very little opacity and the base having about 50% opacity.

You can get a similar effect using a linear gradient.

Example file.

faded ellipse.afphoto

 

 

Thank you!