looking for a better lens flare

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dougleax
Aug 14, 2003
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Can anyone point me to a free lens flare plugin that does not look like PS’s lens flare. doug.
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JasonSmith
Aug 14, 2003
If you can find the Kai’s Power tools 6 suite – it has a pretty nice lens flare plug in.

Not free though.
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Thee_DarkOverLord
Aug 14, 2003
Same as Jason said.

Someones been requesting one recantly, its by far the best I can do speed wise.

But I dont have anyotherplugins that do Lens flare.

Does this confuse photographers who are mostly trying to avoid LF?
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Thee_DarkOverLord
Aug 14, 2003
You can get a lot of varying afects from the standard PS pluging though, are you sure you have pushed it as much as you might?
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Phosphor
Aug 14, 2003
Not if you apply it to a duplicate layer and then adjust blending options. Try difference…you can get some pretty groovacious effects.
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Eric Purkalitis
Aug 14, 2003
A lot of plugins seem to produce the same lens flare effects. Not surprising since they’re reproducing the same photographic effect. For something different, you might look at axiom,knoll, or flAIR, but they cost $$$. Try this tutorial <http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop6.shtml> for a nice flare effect.
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JasonSmith
Aug 14, 2003
….and knoll had a little bit of influence on PS’s flare.
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Bernie
Aug 14, 2003
dougleax try:

<http://www.axionfx.com/free_stuff.asp>
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dougleax
Aug 15, 2003
thanks everybody.
Already had the axion, it is pretty much like PS.
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Thee_DarkOverLord
Aug 15, 2003
Once you have applied the standard lens flare effect, you can then apply other afects such as the many blurr or other distortion affects, applying the same affect several times can also give some interesting results, as shown in this tut by Trevor, <http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop6.shtml>
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Jose Urena
Aug 17, 2003
Check Knoll Light Factory.
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Pierre Courtejoie
Aug 17, 2003
Jose is Right! It is available for PC. Just google "Knoll Light Factory 2" and you’ll get more info!
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Pierre Courtejoie
Aug 17, 2003
But, re-reading the original post, I see that KLF would not help dougleax, as he searches a free plug-in!

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