Hey there. This video is more of a rite of passage than it is. Learning Photoshop. We are going to be learning something. We're going to be learning the filter called lens flare. It's this thing here that I've added, watch this. Turn it off, turn it on. It's the sparkle that comes out of the lens. Turn it off, turn it on. And why do I show you it to you? It's because you need to learn to love it and then hate it like comic sans. I'm not saying this is you, but pretty much well, most people that I show this and they're kind of like when they're beginning in Photoshop, especially students. Okay, university, I show them this and then it doesn't really matter what the job is. I know because this is exactly how I did it. I got shown lens flare and then every single assignment for my graphic design degree had a lens flare in. It didn't matter what it was an image lens flare. Business card lens flare. There were very few times in that first year of university that I couldn't put a lens flare ...

on something And as I transitioned into teaching students, it didn't even matter if I showed them this tool or not. They found it and every second project lens flare and I want to give this gift to you. It's really easy to use and from now on you'll be able to throw it into all of your projects until you learn to hate it. Then you'll be able to spot it in other people's projects and tut along with me. All right, let's get into it and learn how to make it work. Okay to create our amazing lens flare. Open up to files from that same filters folder we've been working from. It's called lens flare oh one. And lens Flare 02 with the layer. You want the lens flare on. Have it selected in the layers and go up to filter. Go down to render and find the magical lens flare. And that's it. What you can do is this little sparkle here. You can click hold and drag around to get a sense of kind of how the lens flare works. And I'm going to put them kind of like through the trees here. And I am going to You can obviously increase the brightness, lower the brightness, make it subtle barred. Remember there's lens flare time. We want it to be obvious. Everyone knows. Now this is the traditional lens flare. This is the one I see on every first year university design student I've ever taught. You're only allowed to use this one. But then there's these other ones. Okay. And they're just different looks. Okay. Different kinds of lenses react differently. And Movie prime. Okay, experiment with the ones you want. I'm going for the classic, the 50-300 mil zoom lens. Ah look at that magic. And that my friends is a lens flare now on this option here. Okay, this is the one I want you to practice on. See if you can find a good spot for a lens flare. What I want you to do is make sure you find your own pick and stick like 10 lens flares on it and I want to see them and remember the rule 50% of all the work you do for the next year. If you're brand new to Photoshop needs to have a lens flare put into it, enough of lens flares, that is going to be the end of filters. Okay, we could go through, there are just so many in here. I could spend the next 10 hours going through every single one of them. But now you've got the kind of understanding of how they work, you can go to the filter gallery to get most of them and get a cool little preview. And then there's lots in here like render and tree. It's random, you click on it, it generates trees. If you're a landscape designer, that is an amazing one. There's just so many in here that you need a little bit of experimentation. And what you'll probably find is that once you've got your core skills from this course, you'll find tutorials online, you'll be like, oh I have the skills to do these tutorials now and you'll find to do this X effect, you will need to do filter A B and then C to make that happen and you'll be able to work through different filters as you get more experienced. Alright, let's get into the next section of this Photoshop course.

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The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

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50. The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

Lessons

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

Layers - Quiz

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

Shapes - Quiz

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

Text - Quiz

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Selecting Hair

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

Selection & Masking - Quiz

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project – Oil Painting

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

Class exercise - Halftone

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

Filters - Quiz

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

Class Project - Peeling Sky

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Retouching

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

Retouching

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Duotones

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect