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’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.

This Photoshop screenshot shows the lens flare filter being applied to the image on the left. The type of camera lens, amount of brightness and position of the light can be adjusted.

Lens flare is nothing new; although traditionally considered an error, it can be seen in mainstream Hollywood films from the 1960s onward, particularly those shot by Conrad Hall and Haskell Wexler.

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 ...

Welcome to our ode to one of gaming's most over-used special effects - lens flare. I'm sure the first person to think of it got a big pat on the back from his peers. Those same peers then left the ...

Apple has officially responded to claims that the new iPhone 5’s camera leaves a purple lens flare on some photos when it is pointed to, or near, a bright light, such as the sun. After some ...

A Photoshop filter allows users to place flare effects in a reasonably accurate way, and CG effects shots in feature films often incorporate digitally created “flare” to mesh with the rest of ...