 Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop 2022 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to create a lens flare in Photoshop very, very quickly. Here's the original shot. Here it is with a lens flare. How did I do it? Very simple. Let's start from scratch. I'm going to delete this layer here. So the first step is you load in your image like I've done here. The second step is an important one is you want to go ahead and create a duplicate of it. So I just drag it over that little plus sign, or you can do command or control J depending on how you feel like it. I'm going to turn the bottom layer off and we're going to work on the top layer. Go up to filter, go to render and then go to lens flare. This will allow you to will allow you to select four different types of lens flares and more importantly, you can position it wherever you see fit and you can dial in the brightness. So if you don't want it to be super bright, you want it to be subtle. Okay, go subtle. You want it to be crazy. Go go crazy. I'm going to go a little over the top here because this is a tutorial and I want to show you what it looks like. So I've got this at a hundred and thirty nine percent and I've got a thirty five millimeter prime, which is the standard basically film camera lens, but you can do a different style. This fifty millimeter fifty to three hundred zoom is good, but whatever. Let's just go with thirty five millimeter prime left click on okay, we've repositioned it and presto it's done. Now I'm going to do one more thing. This green here does not look too realistic. So let's say we want to keep the top left here, the flare up at the top, but not this green part. I'm going to go ahead and click on the bottom layer so that they're both turned on and then on this top layer, what you want to do is you want to create a mask. So just left click on add layer mask and then get out your brushes. Just get any old brush. I'm going to get a big brush, huge brush, whatever, something like that and then I just start painting over top of it. I'm painting with black and then in my mask, I just delete it like this. So I get rid of the green and that's it. So I've got this lens flare and presto and if I ever want that back, I just hold down shift and left click on it and that brings it back depending on what you look what you're looking for. That's it guys. That's how you make a professional lens flare in Photoshop in about 90 seconds. Thanks for watching. Be back soon.