today a quick bonus video on photoshop lens flare tips add neat lens flares to
images fast
what is up people welcome back to Satori graphics the home of graphic
design content right here on YouTube I had a different video plan for today but
I ran into some issues but that video is going to come tomorrow so stay tuned for
that but today something I'm not done in for a while on this channel and that's a
Photoshop tutorial and today we're looking at lens flare tips so here is my
image open up in Photoshop it looks kind of bland right now but we
can vastly improve the image with simply adding a lens flare you will need your
layers panel open which you can access in the window drop down menu or you can
press f7 on your keyboard a way that many people add a lens flare is quite a
novice way and I did this myself for a long period of time some people would
simply go up to filter render and then lens flare and they attach the lens
flare onto the image layer
this will prevent you from being able to edit the actual lens flare itself as you
can see when I try to erase part of it here
so you me think our just make a new layer and pop the lens flow into that
you will see that you can actually apply a Photoshop lens flare right into a
black layer
so the first lens flare tip is to select black as your foreground color and then
on a new layer press the alt option key as well as backspace or delete and then
it will fill the entire layer with black from here change the blend mode to
screen what I can do now is apply the lens flare to this layer and I will be
able to move it around and use the eraser tool to remove certain parts you
can apply as many lens flares as you wish at Photoshop and it will
automatically be in the same place as the previous lens flare with a soft
brush and a low opacity I can then erase parts of the lens flare effect but
I don't want on my image I'm gonna show you a few more tips to our dramatic
effect your edges with a Photoshop lens flare I take the eraser tool remove part
is colored glare on my lens flare effect you will leave a gap in the coloration
of the overall lens flare
to counter this take the eyedropper tool and sample color from the hydra lens
flare yourself and then with a brush tool set it to a low opacity and
carefully paint in the gap now this may take some time to get right and I've
kind of rushed it here in the tutorial but if you do make a mistake you can
simply press command or control Z to move back a step the idea is to make
everything blend and flow naturally across the lens flare effect if you want
to see more videos like this one I may add one or two finish up tutorials per
month on my channel however satori graphics will always be more geared
towards a demonstrator simply because that's what I know vests but let me know
your thoughts in the comment section below but as you can see turning off the
lens flare layer it has quite a dramatic effect from here I would start using a
Dodge and burn tool as well as other effects enhance a dramatic lighting and
the field of the image I can always show you these for future videos if you guys
want to see that remember to drop your thoughts down in the comment section
below also let me know if you feel this time
slow is better than previous one I'm going to be back tomorrow my last video
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