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| HOW TO SET UP LENS FLARES
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Photoshop has a lot of cool features, one of my favorites being the lens flare.
If you've ever used Photoshop's default lens flare filter, you know that it can be really hard to
get the lens flare to come out EXACTLY where you want it. Not only that, but the filter itself
lacks enough options for you to really get the most out of it. This tutorial will teach you a
better, more convineint way to set up your lens flares using templates.
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| This is the picture we'll be editing. I made it online using UGO.com"s Hero Machine. Ignore the ugly difference clouds in the background.
Before you get started, you should download my lens flare pack. It contains 14 lens flare images that you can use on any of your pictures.
Download it HERE. Unzip the file to a folder you can easily remember, like My Documents.
Of course, save the picture to the right so you can edit it.
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First open up the picture shown above, and then from the flare pack, open up white004. Now
select the  Move Tool. Click on the
white004 picture, and then drag it right onto your picture. |
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| Doing this will make a new layer above your original picture. You'll see a black square with
the lens flare in it hovering over your original drawing. Of course we don't want the black to show
up, otherwise that would look stupid. Here"s how we fix this... |
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| Look on your Layers panel. You'll see a field that says Normal. This area is for changing the
blending mode of the layer. Each mode affects how the layer will blend with the rest of the
picture. Click on your Flare layer to select it. Now click the arrow pointing down next to the word
Normal and a list will appear. Somewhere near the top is the word Screen. Select that one to set
the blending mode of the flare layer to Screen. This will make all the darkest parts of the current
layer transparent, and the brighter parts will be solid. Look back at your picture... |
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| Now it looks like it's supposed to! All you have to do now is move it wherever you like, and
you're done! |
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| Now select the Move Tool and put it somewhere that light would shine off of the most. It looks like the knight's shoulder is a good place. |
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