Any tips for nice veiling flare?

I would use a blank layer above the image. Pick large soft brush. Pick a colour for the sun glow and paint on blank layer eg: top left paint large white blob will have a big feather as it is a soft brush.Then maybe further down the image paint with a slight orange colour.You could even do them on seperate layers. Anyways I digress. On the new painted layer set the blend mode to soft light and turne the opacity down to your liking.You can mask these layers too and add or delete where required.

Hope this helps.

Gaz
 
Personally I'd just get a cheap zoom lens and use it contre-jour. Could save a lot of hassle.
 
droj said:
Personally I'd just get a cheap zoom lens and use it contre-jour. Could save a lot of hassle.
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But that ignores the first line of the OPs request and is difficult if you want to add it after the event !
 
aaz01 said:
Photoshop filters or tips on how to achieve it manually in PP?

I'm looking for a lens-flare to cover the entire canvas, but without circular artifacts. Something along these lines:

http://www.katemacpherson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/GoldenLightLensFlare011.jpg

http://photographylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Nikon-Df-Image-Sample-6.jpg
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These shots are actually backlit, and most of the flair would have been captured optically. There's no real digital substitute for this that looks totally convincing unless your image is also backlit, then it may compliment it. You'd have much more success if you actually shot the image to achieve this rather than look for ways for processing to achieve it.

Buck said:
But that ignores the first line of the OPs request and is difficult if you want to add it after the event !
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This is true... but nonetheless, it's good advice going forwards.

It would be useful to see the image the OP wants to add the flare to as well, because if it's not already backlit, it will probably look bloody awful, whatever he tries.
 
Pookeyhead said:
It would be useful to see the image the OP wants to add the flare to as well, because if it's not already backlit, it will probably look bloody awful, whatever he tries.
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True :thumbs:
 
You can still use one of the standard lens flares, just pop it on it's own layer filled with black, then set the blending mode to screen. You will now only see the flare - simply use a soft brush set at about 20% black and paint over what you don't like (on the flare layer). Simples
 
or you could just shoot in the right light.... :)

Lens choice helps... some lenses do it better than others.

Nikkor 24-70 f2.8G

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Hardly any PP at all apart from the usual levels and stuff.


PP is really not the answer to this... lighting is.
 
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