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thor64 · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 12:46 pm

Remember how this filter (and many others like Clouds and EyeCandy fire) attracted you when you open Photoshop for the first time!

gLitterbug · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 12:57 pm

OH man, yeah I remember me getting my hands on photoshop when I still wasn�t into art.

->clouds->lighting effects->lens flare

now that I think of it - OH MY GOD

[ October 03, 2002: Message edited by: gLitterbug ]

balistic · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:04 pm

mekun · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:24 pm

i think all of us did so many shit in the early days....
someone like to share his artcrimes with us ? hahaha

tilokani · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 3:29 pm

Wouldn't it be funny if someone made an obscene finger gesture with these lens flares?

Storm Crow · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 3:46 pm

That's the best use of the lens flare I've seen yet ballistic

InitialT · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 8:45 pm

I guess the thing is, lens flare from photoshop filters looks, well, photoshopped.

I think lens flare could work if painted in by hand to make sure it fits into the scene, but that would defeat the purpose of having a filter in the first place.

Atherium · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:20 pm

wait a damn minute here, for the lense flare to be hip again....doesn't that mean it would have had to have been hip once...and I dont think that EVER happened.

B0b · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 11:37 pm

the problem with photoshop's lens flare is that it gives round light rings instead of hexagonal like a real camera does...

thor64 · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 3:58 am

I thought it was pretty hip back when I used to draw everything with a mouse on a 486Dx2 66Mhz. Damn I waited for ages when filters had to be rendered.

thinkwink · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 4:17 am

1993 - original done in CorelDraw IV and then passed through Photoshop (3 I think) to add the lens flare...

[ October 04, 2002: Message edited by: thinkwink ]

Frog · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 9:17 am

quote:
Originally posted by B0b:
the problem with photoshop's lens flare is that it gives round light rings instead of hexagonal like a real camera does...

Actually, that depends on the camera, better lenses have more aperture blades which give round out-of-focus highlights and flare artifacts

Lens flares can actually be useful for adding highlights to very bright objects, as long as it's done carefully...

And obviously they are also very useful for simulating a lens that's pointing towards a bright light source

Max · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 10:35 am

Awesome Phil !!!
First version is better.

tilokani · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 5:51 pm

It's basically the lens flare which takes away from the picture, only because they are distracting or just don't fit. And a lot of newbies get delighted with this filter and make their entire pictures out of them. Also, the lens flare just don't really fit the painting style, it seems "homogenized" if you will, and brings down the picture's end appearance. I know, cause that's what I used to do years ago.

Blind Tree Frog · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 6:01 pm

hence the "looks fine when used correctly"

if you do it right, it looks fine. if you do it wrong, it doesn't there is a right and wrong to this here.

Blind Tree Frog · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 11:48 pm

Len's flare is fine if used correctly. Most just dont' use it correctly.

Sukhoi · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 1:28 am

quote:
Originally posted by tilokani:
And a lot of newbies get delighted with this filter and make their entire pictures out of them.

As this lame a** new guy calling himself balistic. Jeez!!!!

Damn art wannabe, newbie bastard!

Sukhoi

Pat · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:30 am

Yeah, but he has a real nice ass.

-Pat

Anthony · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 8:04 am

Interestingly enough I got into computers, and Lightwave 3D, to use them as a money maker. I had read quite extensively on the field, and already knew to avoid excessive lens flare usage.

balistic · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:57 am

quote:
Originally posted by Pat:
Yeah, but he has a real nice ass.

-Pat

In fact if you look at it from just the right angle . . . you guessed it . . . lens flare.

Buzzsaw · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:54 pm

first off ballistic i am still trying to catch my Breath hahaah
i think illl make that my desktop for at least a day or 2.

speaking of lense flares i have a story for ya. I was sitting in the rainbow bar and grill on sunset with a bunch of people from the computer gaming industry and the subject of lense flares came up. kep in mind this is a mix of some of the main players from allot of big game companies.
anyway some were talking about the lense flares and how real they make first person shooters!.
when out of the blue Levelord jumps in with a strait out remark. " why do people think flares look real or add realism when you only get them when you look through a camera Lense?

I used flares when i was a newbee i would say my first year using photoshop. i think all newbees do.

thor64 · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 9:56 am

quote:
Originally posted by balistic:
In fact if you look at it from just the right angle . . . you guessed it . . . lens flare.

If your are talking about the middle of his a** it's rather the 'opposite' of a lens flare - I guess.

root88 · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 9:38 pm

YES!

How to make really awesome graphics.

B0b · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 12:23 am

quote:
Originally posted by root88:
How to make really awesome graphics.

ROFLMAO