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The settings
in this tutorial are only a guideline, and will reproduce something
like the flare below.
Experiment to find what you like best for yourself.
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Step
1: Start
with a square, filled with a color from yellow to orange. (Of course
you can modify everything here to other colors of your own taste,
choosing and moving color sliders appropriately.)
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Step
2: Apply
Plugin Galaxy Coolorize > Twilight to create a ball of graduated
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For
the colors we are using here, Blue sliders are not relevant.
Adjusting the
Green sliders will increase the amount of yellow in the "ball".
Adjusting the
Red sliders will increase the amount of red.
You will notice
that even with Intensity set to a maximum of 255 your ball is still
filling too much of the square.
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Step
3: You
want a bigger black border area, so that the beams of the finished
flare are not cut off at the edges.
To decrease
the size of the ball, you can either apply Coolorize > Fade,
or go back to Coolorize > Twilight and adjust the Intensity
slider to the left. The smaller the slider number, the bigger the
ball will be. Here, Intensity was set all the way to Zero.
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Step
4: Apply
the Warp > Flower filter.
There are only
three sliders: X, Y and Intensity. Adjust them to your own taste.
Your initial application should have fairly "broad", soft
beams.
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Step
5: Apply
the filter again, to create more and finer beam lines. This creates
the flare effect. |
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Step
6: If
you want a softer look, you can use Bluuur > Outburst Blur.
Here the slider values were set to D Intensity = 0 and M Intensity
= 255.
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Step
7: Finish
your flare with a single big Nature > Star. |
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Variation
1: The same effects applied using blue. |
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Variation
2: Warp > Wave and Nature > Sunset
were applied after Step 6. |
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