Add Cinematic Light Beams and Lens Flare in Photoshop (Aaron Nace's Method, Broken Down)

Add Cinematic Light Beams and Lens Flare in Photoshop (Aaron Nace's Method, Broken Down)

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to squeeze more out of a shot after it’s already been taken. Gear budgets have limits, but Photoshop doesn’t care what camera you used. That’s the real appeal of post-processing techniques like this one. In this Aaron Nace (PHLEARN) tutorial, Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, Aaron walks through how to build realistic beams of light and lens flare directly in Photoshop, starting from a fashion image that already had a backlit strobe behind a set of bars.