Sun Streak Recreation

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Not knowing what you tried I’m gonna go with the first thing I would do: duplicate layer, draw mask, play with levels or curves and warm photo filter.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro

[David Johnson]

A variation of the same method, you could also duplicate the layer, feather mask out everything you want unaffected, use a blending mode like add, screen or soft light and adjust the opacity of that layer.

You could also use an effect like CC_Beam (I think that’s what it’s called) on an adjustment layer and tweak the effect controls and/or adjustment layer’s properties as needed.

[Joseph Pole]

Shouldn’t be too difficult Angel.

I did a quick example and took a screen grab for you. For ease i have made reference to the layer names in my project/screen grab. For clarity, i have enhanced the effect so that it is more visible but less realistic (turn the opacity down on the additive layers in your version to make it more realistic.)

Duplicate the layer. (GIRL HIGHLIGHT LGE)
Make a small feathered mask for the highlighted area.
Switch the layer mode to add.
Add a colour balance to that and adjust until the colours match

Duplicate GIRL HIGHLIGHT LGE
Reduce the size of the mask to make a smaller, more intense central highlight

Adjust the opacity of both highlight layers until it looks natural

i also made a precomp (SHINE) and masked ares of the original shot to emulate light streaks. in the main comp (SUN HIGHLIGHT MAIN…

make the SHINE layer additive
add shine to it
move the shine source point up and right outside of the image area to crate directional sunlight streaks

that should get you started. a small amount of a lens flare glow, matching the grades etc will also help.

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[Angel Nieves]

@ Tudor Ted: The photo filter worked nicely. Thanks.

@ Joseph Pole: Nice job. Thanks for all the work. Your hints are helpful.

[Joseph Pole]

if she moves significantly rotoscoping will of course be needed but that wasn’t the question.

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