Photoshop CC 2014 quick tip tutorial showing how to accurately position a lens flare, change its color, adjust its opacity an even remove portions of it if you want to. Photo provided by <a href=" ...

Photoshop CS5 tutorial showing how to make a futuristic, shiny, metallic orb that floats inside a larger, translucent orb.

An option window opens, allowing you to move the center of the flare over the diamond. You can then change the lens type and brightness as desired. In most cases, the 35-mm lens gives the best effect.

Photoshop has had lens flare filters under the “render” menu for more or less as long as it has existed, and even optical filtration supremos Tiffen used to have the DFX plugin suite. It approximated ...

Photoshop’s Lens Flare has three preset looks and the only thing that you can change is the position, size, and brightness. Knoll Light Factory provides over a 100 different light and flare presets.