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Creating a glow with Lens Flare

Creating a glow with Lens Flare - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a glow with Lens Flare

In this exercise, we're going to make the dragonfly glow by applying a filter called Lens Flare. It's a real old-school filter. It doesn't provide much in the way of a preview, which is why it's so useful to apply it as a Smart Filter, because that way you can see the effect after you apply it and you can change your mind. So let me show you what that looks like. I've gone ahead and saved my changes as Blur filters.psd, and I have my top dragonfly layer selected as you can see. Now I'm going to go up to the Filter menu, and I'm going to choose Render, and I'm going to choose Lens Flare. Notice that the Lens Flare Filter does not provide a preview out here on the larger image window the way Gaussian Blur and Motion Blur did. Instead, we just get this little dinky preview right here, which is very difficult to gauge. But anyway, notice that you set the center of the Lens Flare effect. By the way, Lens Flare is supposed to simulate the effect of a light shining into the camera's lens…

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