Forum: Bryce

Subject: Lens Flare Freebie

johnpenn opened this issue on Jul 15, 2002 · 9 posts

johnpenn posted Mon, 15 July 2002 at 1:59 PM

Attached Link: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

I'm convinced that Bryce can't create a lens flare by itself, so I figured why not make one. Here's a plain jane lens flare, and matching transmap. And here's that ever so popular NASA picture of the Earth at Night mapped to a sphere to demonstrate it.

johnpenn posted Mon, 15 July 2002 at 2:00 PM

Here's the Lens Flare Graphic

johnpenn posted Mon, 15 July 2002 at 2:01 PM

Here's the transparency map. Apply these bad boys to a 2D plane, and you are good to go.

EricofSD posted Mon, 15 July 2002 at 10:50 PM

I use axion Lens Flare plugin in Photoshop. The old lense flare plugin is free now from Axion and although it has a bug, there's a work around. Here's an example of axion filter in PS post render enhancement.

EricofSD posted Mon, 15 July 2002 at 10:53 PM

and here's another example.

EricofSD posted Mon, 15 July 2002 at 11:04 PM

Oh, and the NASA can have a lot of uses too with multiple spheres, one for clouds, another for land mass, and another for the atmosphere.

allengraph posted Tue, 16 July 2002 at 3:26 AM

Attached Link: http://www.puffindesigns.com/products/plug-ins/klf/index.html

Knoll Light Factory is a good one...

johnpenn posted Tue, 16 July 2002 at 6:09 AM

Yeah, but those lens flares require post work! Actually, all mine is a photoshop lens flare too. All I did was make the transmap. The only reason I made it was so people can dodge post work. Or for people that don't have an image editor.

EricofSD posted Wed, 17 July 2002 at 12:00 AM

Post work is not a bad thing for a final product. Yeah, its great to be a purist, and there are times where I bristle with pride on that, but the bottom line is the final image needs to appeal to your customer base so that means post work.