Lens Flare Abstract Tutorial

My third background tutorial, enjoy!

1) Create a new document in any size. For this tutorial, my document will be 640x480 in size.

2) Fill your document with Black by going to EDIT >> FILL with these settings :

Contents: Black
Blending Mode: Normal (100%)

3) Go to FILTER >> RENDER >> LENS FLARE . For the Lens Type, pick 50-300mm Zoom and tone down the brightness to 40%. Randomly place it anywhere.

http://img216.exs.cx/img216/3039/lensflare5ig.png

4) Repeat step 3 until you fill up your whole document. Make sure no two lens flare overlap each other.

http://img147.exs.cx/img147/21/lens20cp.png

5) After, go to FILTER >> STYLIZE >> EMBOSS with these settings :

Angle: 90
Height: 100
Amount: 500

It should look like this :

http://img147.exs.cx/img147/1935/lens30sd.png

6) Open up the Levels box (CTRL+L) and use these settings :

Input Levels: 0 0.60 255

7) Desaturate the image (CTRL+SHIFT+U) and duplicate the layer.

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/6894/lens37oy.png

8) On the duplicated layer, go to FILTER >> DISTORT >> TWIRL with these settings :
Angle: 200

Set the blending mode to Darken then merge all layers.

9) Duplicate the layer once again and go to FILTER >> DISTORY >> TWIRL with these settings :
Angle: -250

Set the blending mode to Lighten then merage all layers.

10) Open up the Hue/Saturation box (IMAGE >> ADJUSTMENTS >> HUE/SATUARTION) with these settings :

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/2093/sat6ae.png

11) For the finishing touch, go to IMAGE >> ADJUSTMENTS >> BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST with these settings :

Brightness : -25
Contrast : +40

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/8569/finish3sw.png

Well, it seems to rather easy. I think we already had a tut just like it but without the twirl. Thanks anways from your contribution. I hope you post more stuff for us :)

mhhh i think it would look better if iit wouldn´t be so dark like this but its cool

I love the colours.. looks awesome. Very simple, very effective , good job^.^

Now thats pretty damn cool! For a bit, it looked like my members-only abstract exposion tutorial, and as you progressed it looked better and better =),

Nice job Blood - I love all your tutorials mate!

i like the colors i think it looks better dark like that. nice tut

im not flaming but i think it looks better with a little different settings, different lens flare, and less of them, heres what i did with a lil text and a render a long itme ago.....
http://img95.exs.cx/img95/8948/planewab5bk.jpg

ok... i just finished your tutorial....ummm.... am i supposed to see extreamly angry and scarey people in it?? because i do and it's extreamly not cool lol :mellow: :huh:

[img=http://img142.exs.cx/img142/7888/untitled18uz.th.jpg]

I made It :D Turned out Very Well. Thanks For the Simple Tutorial.

Awesome, really easy to follow. Mine came out almost absolutely perfect, I only had to tweak a few things to get exactly what I wanted. Good job.