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Lens flare - transparent background


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Hey guys,

Is there any way to save lens flare on transparent background? I guess you can cut the center of the flare out and use it like that, but it losses it's magic around. And yes I can implement it in some picture and use the blend mode screen to get rid of the black background, but I want to use it on website and a hover so it shouldn't be too big as a file.
 
A lens flare can only be applied to a field which had solid pixels/color. It cannot be created on a blank/transparent BG. And I don't really see how blend if will get rid of the black BG and leave the lens flare. That takes you back to transparent.

I'm not sure exactly what you want to achieve, but can't you make the lens flare the same color as your web BG? Then you can make it as large or small a file as you need.
 
Thanks for your replay,

I understand it can't be done on transparent bg but I thought there is perhaps some way to extract it so you could save the flare only, without the black background, oh well.

I was thinking too difficult though. I have found much simpler solution. CSS sprite :)
 
try the blend mode "screen or lighten" it removes the dark pixels and retain only the light pixels,
 
screen mode will only remove dark pixels as long as there is an underlying layer that is lighter. If you use the blend if option or any way to remove the dark parts of the layer you will loose the effect and it will look very patchy
 
Sure you can, make a black layer and use the flare filter. With that layer selected go to the channels palette ctrl+click the red channnel and copy ctl+C then paste. Do this for each channel (make sure you have the original flare on black layer selected). You'll have 3 new layers, now delete the original layer, or turn it off.
 

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Well, hawkeye gets the PSG Medal of the week!!And here it is:

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(I hope dv8_fx doesn't mind since this was designed for his 10th anniversary on PSG ... thanks for the use. I'll send royalties!)
 
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Nice advice, hawkeye:)

Just wonder if you tried to place your Lens Flare over some background?

Here is true Lens Flare effect over the Gray BG:

LF1.png

And here is the same Lens Flare effect made using your advice:

LF2.png
:)

In your case I would suggest applying Layer->Matting->Remove Black Matte for each of your layers.

Or better then use the method I described in http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/general-photoshop-board/28052-lens-flare-filter.html#post80637. Merge components layers to one, set it's mode to Normal, add Levels addjustment layer over it in clipping group. Adjust Levels to get a nice view.

In any case you won't get the look like the one with Screen mode but you can get pretty close to it:)
 
Thank you guys. Amazing advice! With both SCTRWD and hawkeye you can accomplish a really close end result to a screen blend mode. You guys just taught me something cool :)
 
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