Spent 3 hours on a lighting layer that barely showed up in the final export

I was trying to get this soft glow effect on a forest scene and layered like 15 different brushes with opacity tweaks. After rendering I could barely see the difference but zooming in 400% it gave the whole piece this weird depth I wasn't going for. Has anyone else accidentally hidden a detail that ended up making the piece work better than the obvious stuff?

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john_hunt23d ago

Ever export something and realize the "mistake" made it look better?

schmidt.blake3d ago

Ha, right @john_hunt2? It's like the universe is messing with us - all that time tweaking and the one goof is somehow the keeper.