This tutorial will show you a quick way to create an animated lens flare effect that can enhance your transitions, lower-thirds, and more using Adobe After Effects CC 2014.

Welcome to our ode to one of gaming's most over-used special effects - lens flare. I'm sure the first person to think of it got a big pat on the back from his peers. Those same peers then left the ...

Carla Ten Eyck's lens flare tutorial contains several examples, along with the camera settings she uses. She highly recommends shooting in the late afternoon, with a low ISO setting.

On a regular day, a lens flare might show up as a little circle. But during an eclipse, they appear as small crescents.

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Firstly, there's this: Turns out the sun is nothing but a lens flare effect, to the extent that looking through a night vision scope makes the sun disappear altogether.

Lens flares are very popular effects than can be used in transitions, lower-thirds, logos, and several other places. The flash effects they produce are good attention-getters that you can include in ...