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Stock lens flares – from me to you

Have you ever been sitting editing a photo and all you needed was that final lense flare in the glasses to make the image PERFECT?

Well, so have I, and for ages I've used flare brushes, but non of them seem to do it that great.

So I decided to make stock lenses which I and everyone else are free to use as they please.

Below you can see an example, and it's quite easy to make your own if you have a flash.

What i did was to place it my livingroom (daytime) turned up my aperture to around f20 (to get the starlike shape) and shot some images with the room darkened through camera settings.

If you did it correct, you'll end up with a shot like this one (I've added some contrast to my final images).

Now to use them in photoshop - import them to an image and set the blending mode of this layer to SCREEN in order to exclude all the black.

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