LENS FLARES, AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Woohoo! Hey guys, here's my first tutorial in over a year! We're going to make some lens flares that would make J.J. Abrams jealous.

Someone asked how I made this flare:


Here are some examples:

Spoiler

Enjoy!

 

Cool effect David.Nicely done.

 

Thanks Rod.

 

If i were to try and write a script for this, which settings would you like to be able to adjust?

 

Dude, really!? I would love to write a full plugin like Optical Flares but alas, I have no coding skills. But if you want to write a script for this that's awesome too! The two biggest settings that I would like to have control over are the lens streak's length and if the Supernova effect is applied or not.

 

I' m kind of late on this but still want to thank you for this tutorial, David.
The standard lens flares in GIMP are pretty ugly imo, a script for this would be wonderful!

 

Okay i got the basics written down for controls and i will begin this soon.
I will leave the final scale and curve settings for the user after the script is run.

 

Awesome! Can't wait to test it out.

 

I know, its kinda offtopic, buy ya'll know me.
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