lensflare on white background

[Barend Onneweer]

Due to the nature of the lensflare phenomenon (light bouncing around inside the lens construction) there isn’t such a thing as a lensflare that’s visible on a completely white background.

Two options: make your background a light grey, so the lensflare stands out.
Or for creative reasons you could do a lensflare on a black background and invert the result. Won’t look realistic, but you get an inverted lensflare on a white background.

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[Matt Stoltz]

try this-Ive done this many of times–on the lines of what Barend said

Take your main comp and (the one you created everything in –PreComp all those layers into a new comp

then add a solid black layer-add a lens flare on the black solid -then on that layer -set it to screen blending option in your transfer or blending modes –

hasnt failed me

matt

[Bill Clotz]

Create a black solid above your white layer and then apply the lens flare to this black solid. Then apply the “Shift Channels” effect and set it to take alpha from luminance (or also try taking it from red). Then apply the “Remove Color Matting” effect.