How to Easily Remove Lens Flares with Photoshop

[@theosimmer9926]

This tutorial is what I was looking for the entire time! Thank you! 😊

[@trevordoyle3421]

Loved it. I even learned something new. You place your edit 'patches' on separate layers to effect blending . For decades I've been too lazy, simply edit on the background layer! I owe ya.

[@juliatrotti]

Thank you! I think I forgot to mention it in this video because I didn't need to do it - but sometimes even bringing down the opacity of the retouching "patches" every now and then really helps to blend it in as well. I usually do that if I accidentally went a little heavy handed or if I want some more texture to be seen through the editing :)

[@stephenpatchett2089]

Thanks for more photoshop advice, as a new user of PS, I need all the help I can get. Thanks again Julia, Keep your great advice and vids going. Love from me and the UK.

[@RH-nk7eo]

I'm so glad I came across this video. Very useful tips. Recently I watched a video on frequency separation and putting your tips together with the frequency separation method, you can really get rid of the lens flare whilst preserving all of the texture on the face.

[@reieba2166]

Yesss!! I did a little Brandon woelfel style shoot with sparklers and that caused a lot of flares. This was the easiest tutorial and you explain it so simply. Thank you!!

[@juliatrotti]

Yay glad I could help! :D

[@jasminerobles9462]

SO HELPFUL! Thank you!! That was magic 🤩

[@sunshinemusic9876]

Julia this is pure gold! 😍 The pictures are so amazing and your tips are so helpful 😍 I hope you have a great summer and if you love summer music, here's a little recommendation: Flo Tusch - Love ain't cheap It's my favourite summer song and I hope it will make you as happy as it makes me 😍

[@brekkahartman57]

YES! my cannon mark2 and my 35 1.4 sigma art lens is killing me right now with the flares!!

[@bagery]

Fantastic, you are a wizard! You always make it look so easy and fun, thank-you!

[@juliatrotti]

Thank you so much!

[@johnnycowboy1177]

Julia this was truly a great tutorial on removing lens flare, i use to have trouble removing it. Great work 👏👍!

[@juliatrotti]

Thank you I'm glad you liked it!

[@discoveringastronomyconceptvid]

Well done! Why not do frequency separation??

[@Asty__]

Your tutorials are very useful, thank you for that! I also can tell how good is the sound/microphone quality, and with your relaxing voice it actually makes it a cool tutorial to watch. Thanks again and keep up the great work!

[@juliatrotti]

Thank you!

[@mark1hancock]

Great video Julia, helped me remove quite a bit of lens flare I had in a sunset photo but I couldn't quite line up the tools you were using compared to the left hand tool bar. I'm new to Photoshop so I guess I'll get it with more practice

[@tharyhout9707]

I always have hard time using the stamp tool even though I kind of know already what it does. Your tutorial look pretty smooth, I dont know if I could use it as smooth as you did. great video overall PS is it just me or the woman in the photo looks so much like Gal Gadot

[@nurb2kea]

I your video you get a blush with no texture. Adding a bit of grain would help. But with color separation (color+B&W layer) you can work better. - Adding a color layer like you and paint the color in. - Then paint in the texture from the B&W layer on a seperate layer in luminosity blend mode in B&W. When using the stamp tool you get the texture OR when paining with the brush then add noise 4% (gaussian, monochromatic) + gaussian blur 1.8pix. Color Separation: - On top of your image add an 'invert' adjustment layer with 50% opacity or fill in 'Luminosity' blend mode. You'll see the color of the image. Hit "command+alt+shift+e" to make a 'stamp layer' of what you see (color of the image). ((or copy and merge the image+invert layer)) - Switch off the invert layer. - Copy the original image on top of the color stamp layer switch blend mode to "luminosity" and desaturate with B&W adjustment layer or fill with black in color blend mode to get the image in B&W. - Now you have separated color and luminosity. - Add a blank layer on top of the color layer and change the blend mode to 'color' and the same for the B&W one in 'luminosity' blend mode. On this blank layers (fixing layers) you can paint or use the stamp tool or ..... Keep in mind when using the stamp tool or other tools on the blank layer from B&W layer TO 'switch off' the color layers, that you're not copying color info onto the luminosity B&W layer;-)) Hope that helps!? Little hint: record an action in photoshop for this color separation process. will make your workflow lotz easier and quicker. Let me know if you want this action to try and I'll send it to you + selective coloring action. (free)

[@juliatrotti]

I actually already have an action for frequency separation up on www.digitalfilmactions.com for free download + a few FS retouching tutorials up on my channel! I just wanted to share a different way to be able to do this! Though FS would work to remove lens flares as well :)

[@marionbenizano]

I love you Julia ❤. Thank you for all of your videos..

[@christinacooperfilm]

This is what I neeeeed! I have been having the hardest time removing lens flare recently. Thank you so much for this! I can wait to step up my lens flare removal game!! 👏🏼😊

[@kerPlanck]

thanks for the helpful tutorial. now how do i do this for videos? thanks.

[@MaritHilarius]

Loved your tutorial! The only thing I always struggle with is that by using the stamp tool, you get rid of the texture in the photo and the skin ends up looking blurry..

[@juliatrotti]

Thank you! That's why I use the colour layer first - that way you don't have to use the stamp tool as much, instead only use it to get rid of the outlines of the lens flare. If you're finding too much texture is disappearing as you do this, you can use the healing brush tool to brush over some of the softer areas to bring back that texture!

[@shvetsoov]

Hello! Can u take for test Samyang lens? Samyang fe 35/1.4 AF for sony? It's interesting to compare with your fav lens by Canon :)

[@bodywise007]

Nice presentation

[@DarenClodio]

Thank you for this video! Helped me so much.

[@MrAnugar]

I'm a total beginner in this: how did you choose the color near the area for the brush?? how do you make the brush smaller/bigger? Thanks.

[@juliatrotti]

I usually press option to bring up the colour picker, then while holding it down I click on the colour I want to copy. And I change the brush size by using the [ and ] shortcut :)

[@vongreene6337]

wow, your content is superb. your model here is as pretty as you are.

[@fernandosantospty]

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

[@manuf1056]

Julia your job is amazing! I hope I could take such photos. Also you seem super sweet I feel like hugging you every time you talk 😅😊 cheers!

[@markharris5771]

Great tutorial. I’m not using enough layers without a doubt, I do try to work as non destructive as possible but I would more than one action to each layer. With this level of edit do you name and group your layers? I wish I could remember the short cuts, I can’t even remember the iMac or Windows ones. Thank you very much for this one, very useful indeed for most types of photography. I find my Sigma 18-35 f1.8 ef-s gives them when creating sun stars, but 99% of them are keepers. I love this lens though and its one of the reasons I take my 7DII with me for landscapes so I can use it.

[@juliatrotti]

Thank you! I actually don't ever name or group my layers, unless I'm working on an edit that would take me a few days - such as a photomanipulation where you heavily edit a photo to make it look completely different/almost surreal like I used to work on when I first started getting into photography years ago. With my retouching now, I like to make new layers for every different section so if I’m working on a new section and I notice something I did a minute or a few seconds ago doesn’t actually look good, I can go back and delete that last layer easily and quickly redo it. That’s pretty much the extent to which I use the layers - so once I’ve finished removing the lens flare and I move on to retouching the skin or another part of the image, I rarely have to revisit the layers of the lens flare if that makes sense? So for me it just saves time to do it in order, make sure I’m happy once I’ve finished something in particular and not bother renaming layers :D p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545}

[@markharris5771]

Julia Trotti I do manipulate some images in an Erik Johannson sort of way and not a Peter Lik. I’m terrible for not naming my layers and returning to an image 10 minutes later, deciding I don’t like something and totally forgetting where it is. Using more layers, with just one action on each layer will actually help with this. It also helps with the history if I close an image and reopen it. Thank you very much for your answer, but the bottom line has confused my poor old br

[@lot3928]

I love this tutorial but it doesnt seem to work with my photo sadly :( I went on vacation and took a photo I am really happy with but it has too much sunflare on the photo to even edit it... I tried everything in your tutorial and it's hard to think that it works with every photo since it doesn't work with mine. Because its a nice vacation photo I just couldn't delete it, but it is also not pretty enough haha help! Can you help me with this? xxxx Lo

[@andrewfisher9611]

I have also got an image where following this video the steps aren't working. It is specifically the stamp tool which is the issue.

[@jingimage1108]

love it

[@lol-td3qr]

When I paint with the stamp tool, nothing happens. Why is it like this?

[@AndrewLeong]

Thank you!

[@annag.966]

I followed all the steps but my stamp is not working, why ? 😭

[@johnalbert246]

FIRST! Love ur videos!

[@DeniseHesmerFotografie]

First one

[@CmdrTigerKing]

I like when you say yuear

[@Kuldeep_Kanaujia]

Love you sweetheart ❤️

[@danielaguirre2077]

Hi,cuando haras en español aunque sea traducido gracias te sigo siempre eres muy buena.

[@juliatrotti]

My spanish isn't good enough to make a video unfortunately :( Maybe when I go back to Argentina I can try doing a photoshoot only in Spanish! I have to figure out how to translate the subtitles though for my other videos.

[@cyrille8693]

tbh, with or without lensflares, I think retouching Kristina's pictures is kinda criminal. However I get your intention so, I forgive you, naughty girl ;P

[@DrakeAlexanderKnight]

If making new layers is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

[@juliatrotti]

Hahaha me!

[@DrakeAlexanderKnight]

Julia "Make A New Layer" Trotti ;)

[@polarisworks]

Add more noise to the photoshopped area! Your spots look way too clean now. (zoomed in)

[@juliatrotti]

Like I mentioned, once you retouch the rest of the portrait, it would blend in more! :)

[@dantevega2115]

I don't know I have mixed feelings on this video. There are times where you give good feedback, but there are also times where you get too personal with the information. With the title of the video, I thought you were going to go over all the lens flares in the picture. It wasn't so though, Why didn't you got over the massive lens flare which spans across the ladies blouse? The techniques you use are useful as is the information on how to apply those techniques. (Small Strokes) no doubt 's always the best way to implement a clone or mimic method. Though most of the information is sound, I would still have to say I got lost from time to time. Not from anything audible but mostly because visually I couldn't keep up with the cursor. There are times where you are moving your cursor so fast that it appears to disappear entirely. I have seen other tutorials which use a video capturing software which highlights the location of the cursor. The yellow dot may not look appealing to you, but there is another reason to use it other than to help keep track of the position of the cursor. The yellow tint also creates more of a contrast between the cursor and the background allowing viewers to see the form of the cursor when it changes from a lasso to a magnifying glass, stamp, wand, and other tool forms. This way if you forget to say the short-cut or hot-keys for the tools they can at very least refer to the cursor form. In closing, I would advise you to stay away from personal information unless absolutely necessary. I use the tool because I find it to be the best in this circumstance. (Done) Anything further is useless information. People view tutorials to learn how to do something not to get to know the creator on a personal level. That is what facebook, twitter and other social media are for.

[@KazuyaMASUDA1982]

👍

[@tayebabdelali193]

hi Julia you are beautiful

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[@tayebabdelali193]

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[@-WhizzBang-]

OK, your title says EASILY! This is NOT easily! Sorry! A very LONG and TEDIOUS way to do this! And it doesn't work so easily with every photo.