How To Create a SUN GLOW Effect in Photoshop – SUN FLARE Tutorial
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I will show you how to create sun flares in Photoshop in this tutorial.
The effect we will create in this video is the sun glow effect that is popular in portrait photography. It’s a stylized effect that warms up an image and makes it more interesting.
Like everything else in Photoshop, there are many ways of achieving this sun flare overlay effect.
One of the best methods is to use the Gradient Fill Layer alongside the Hard Light Blending Mode, which allows you to work destructively and gives you a lot of control over how the glow effect looks.
Using Adjustment Layers or Fill Layers, do not add too much to the final Photoshop file size. So use them instead of pixel layers whenever you can.
Best of all, if you create a sun glow effect using a Gradient Fill, you can save it as a preset and use it again on any other image you like.
By learning to create these artificial light bursts, you’ll be able to quickly add sunlight to photos and make sunset or sunrise glows.
For this tutorial, we will be using an Adobe Stock image. You can download the free watermarked preview if you like or use your image to follow along.
Adobe Stock Image: https://stock.adobe.com/stock-photo/cheerful-attractive-young-woman-with-backpack-walking-in-park/128741246
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