Photoshop Quick Tip Tutorial: How to Make the Lens Flare Accurate and Adjustable

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I'm going to show you a quick tip on how

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to accurately position a lens flare

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change its color and even remove

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portions of it if you want to open a

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photo you'd like to add a lens flare too

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I downloaded this one from

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shutterstock.com before we begin you

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should know that the lens flare filter

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won't work on an empty layer so before

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you apply the filter make sure there's

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something in your lair for this example

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I'd like the lens flare positioned

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exactly over the Sun go to filter render

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and lens flare

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because the preview window has always

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been small it's difficult to position

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the lens flare accurately on your

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preview image position it as best as you

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can in the meantime feel free to adjust

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its brightness to whatever looks good to

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you for this image I'll leave it at a

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hundred percent choose the lens type and

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click OK

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now that we have the general position of

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the lens flare press ctrl-z on Windows

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or command Z on a mac to undo the last

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step

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click the new layer icon to make a new

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layer we'll fill this empty layer with

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black to do this press Shift + the f5

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key at the top of your keyboard to open

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the fill window open contents and choose

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black

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press ctrl or command F to repeat the

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last filter you used doing this

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duplicates the lens flares type position

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and intensity to see your image under it

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change its blend mode to screen

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to accurately position the flare open

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your transform tool by pressing ctrl or

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command T

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temporarily reduce its opacity to zero

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all transformations are performed around

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a fixed point called the reference point

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by default this point is at the center

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of the item you're transforming you can

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drag the reference point to a different

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location drag it directly over the spot

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you like the center of your lens flare

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to be then increase the opacity back to

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a hundred percent we can always adjust

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the opacity later go inside the

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transform and drag it so the lens flare

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is directly over the spot to ensure that

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the entire lens flare covers your

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background image go to a corner

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and when you see a diagonal double-arrow

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press and hold alt or option + shift as

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you drag it out make sure the top bottom

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and sides of the transforms bounding box

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are outside the edges of your background

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image to accept it press Enter or return

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for this image I'll reduce the lens

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flares opacity to eighty percent

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to change its color

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click your adjustment layer icon and

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click hue/saturation

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click the clipping mask icon which clips

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or restricts the adjustment layer to

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effect just the lens flare and not the

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background image

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drag the hue slider to a color you like

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you can also hide areas of the flare if

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you want to do this click the lens flare

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layer to make it active and click the

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layer mask icon this makes a layer mask

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next to the lens flare

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open your brush tool and brush picker

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will take care of the size in a moment

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make its hardness 0% and the opacity and

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flow a hundred percent then press Enter

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or return

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to make your brush smaller or larger

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press the left or right bracket key on

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your keyboard

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then brush over the areas of the lens

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flare that you want to hide this is

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Marty from Blue Lightning TV thanks for

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watching

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you