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!
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.