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(101 votes) Published: Nov 21, 2007 7:31 p.m. In 7 Favorites Lists Viewed 945 times
This tutorial is how you can make a Rainbow Lens Flare with Photoshop CS3. Nothing complex or that hard. Just a tutorial you can play around with and waste some time on Photoshop.
The nice thing about this tutorial is:
1. It’s fast and easy to do
2. Has the ability to make some piece of shit look semi-good
3. I don’t have a third one.
Selecting the right picture: I suggest a B+W picture, with little to no colors. I doubt a full colored photo will work for this but feel free to try. Oh and make sure its big enough, around 400x400 and up works best.
Get Photoshop up and running.
Get your picture. I just got one from my photobucket.
Now go to Render: Lens Flare
Now choose your Flare. I chose 35mm Prime because I think it works the best.
If it looks somewhat like this then: Great Job!
Now open the Filter Gallery
Choose -Glowing Edges- with Edge Brightness around 6.
Now Invert it. Control+I
Do -Glowing Edges- again.
Then go to Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast
Toggle Brightness -150 and Contrast +100
Now get the Paint bucket tool as the same color as the BG, then click it twice. It will take off some of the roughness.
Nov 21, 2007 8:07 pm - This is the first thing I’ve ever tried to do that I actually need CS1 or 2.... I was gonna make this on a car windshield and place a baseball ontop. Will someone full fill my dream? (make a cutout of the windshield though, so the effect doesn’t fall out onto the car as well)
(and use a Lambo)
Nov 21, 2007 8:30 pm - This effect sucks ass and it looks terrible. Render Flares are nubby, unless you know what you’re doing and even then it’s not worth the mouse clicks.
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