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[Tutorial] Quick Tip: The GIMP Can Do Lens Flares!If you use the GIMP for the 2D portions of your texturing, it has some useful scripts and features for the render artist, including in the area of postwork. I recently ran across this feature after completely missing it for years, so I just had to share it with you all!
Here's a before and after look using our BSI set and the Jax textures from Daz3D (the morph is Legacy Darius plus Legacy Gianni 6).

Here's how you do it!
1. Open your rendered image in the GIMP.
2. Click on the Filters menu option, then Light And Shadow.
3. Choose Lens Flare or Gradient Flare. Gradient Flare has a lot of different options where Lens Flare is much simpler.
4. A dialogue box pops up. For Lens Flare, just click the point in the preview where you want the lens flare to go, and then click OK.
5. For Gradient Flare, pick a flare option from the Selector list, click where in the preview you want it to go, then go to th

Description
This is to accompany this tutorial:

[Tutorial] Quick Tip: The GIMP Can Do Lens Flares!If you use the GIMP for the 2D portions of your texturing, it has some useful scripts and features for the render artist, including in the area of postwork. I recently ran across this feature after completely missing it for years, so I just had to share it with you all!
Here's a before and after look using our BSI set and the Jax textures from Daz3D (the morph is Legacy Darius plus Legacy Gianni 6).

Here's how you do it!
1. Open your rendered image in the GIMP.
2. Click on the Filters menu option, then Light And Shadow.
3. Choose Lens Flare or Gradient Flare. Gradient Flare has a lot of different options where Lens Flare is much simpler.
4. A dialogue box pops up. For Lens Flare, just click the point in the preview where you want the lens flare to go, and then click OK.
5. For Gradient Flare, pick a flare option from the Selector list, click where in the preview you want it to go, then go to th