 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 tutorial. In this one I'm going to show you how to create a synthetic lens flare like this one. I'm going to show you how to select a bunch of different styles of lens flares. I'm going to show you how to move them and adjust them and rotate them and do all that cool stuff and all do that in Photoshop. All right let's turn this layer off. This is the original and this is the adjusted with lens flare. Okay I'm going to delete that layer and we're going to start from scratch if you want to follow along. Okay the first step as you can see here I've loaded in an image. Yep the next step if you're following along is you want to drag and drop this image on the plus sign in the bottom right here. This is going to create a duplicate layer so this way we're working non-destructively and we can go ahead and make some adjustments. I'm just going to turn the bottom layer off and make sure that I'm clicked on the top layer. The next step is you want to go to your properties panel if you don't see it. For me it's right here but if you don't see it go to window and then just click on properties and it will pop out. There is a chance that when you first load this you will not see the bottom here so you want to go ahead and extend this down so that you can see the quick actions. From here click on view more and you're going to get a few options. The one we are looking for is add lens flare. Left click on this and then it's going to say you want to do this and yes we do so left click on apply so we're applying the lens flare now. Okay this is the default location and the default style of lens flare. This might be all you need to do and that's what you're looking for and if that's the case power to you. We can make a few adjustments. I'm going to double click on lens flare right here just on the word and you're going to see here that we can adjust a few things. We're going to adjust the brightness of the lens flare so if you want it a little brighter like holy smokes or if you want it to be a little subtler which might make sense but let's go with a brighter for now. You'll also notice there are four styles of lens flares. There's the 50 to 300 millimeter zoom a 35 millimeter prime which is the standard movie type shooter. We've got 105 millimeter prime and we've also got the movie prime. Well let's go whoa that looks pretty cool but anyways guys we're going to go with the default one but again you can go ahead and make adjustments. Also notice that it only shows up here in this little box here so when we're making changes you're not seeing it in the full image you're just seeing it in this little reduced size thumbnail. So back to the first one also I'm going to show you one other thing you're going to see here a plus inside of this is inside of the lens flare. This is important because we can adjust where the lens flare appears so if we want the lens flare to be at the top right let's say we can just do that just like that so we've adjusted the position when we hit okay okay pardon me you're going to see that the lens flare is now at the top right. This is how you make a lens flare inside Photoshop it takes two minutes at most make the adjustments that's all I got for you guys on this one I've got a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned be back soon.