Lens flare in V2????....

[moovme]

Just curious if the endless cries for a lens flare tool have actually been heard and acted upon. I've been waiting soooooooooooooo long for this essential feature, but all we get are worthless makeshift brushes.

Is this done or least in the scope, or am I going to have to go back to using ADOBE, who actually listen to their customers???.. V2 is dead to me if it doesn't.

[EmT]

Hi @moovme

This is not a current feature, however there are some resources below that may help you achieve this effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVNtE0NYMLY

https://www.reddit.com/r/AffinityPhoto/comments/hrac2f/lens_flare_brushes/

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/store/product/atmosphere-by-james-ritson/

 

[moovme]

Yes thankyou for the links. What Affinity Photo really needs is a fully customizable lens flare tool like Photoshop has. Wonderfully powerful, and extremely easy to use and customize. Brushes are a work-around at best, as they only offer one fixed solution per brush, and customizing them is not at all a fun task to undertake.

Perhaps you could tell my WHY you refuse to add in a Lens Flare tool please??..

[moovme]

If you don't give your customers what they want, you're going to lose their business. Especially when you just ignore their requests without the common decency of an answer. That's called cowardice. 

[Old Bruce]

2 minutes ago, moovme said:

when you just ignore their requests without the common decency of an answer. That's called ... 

They are swamped with requests right now and for the foreseeable future. As far as an explanation as to why a rather specialized tool of limited utility isn't available, I wouldn't know. But hey, they made a whole bunch of stuff for stargazers so maybe this too will appear unannounced. That is how they work, they do take notice of suggestions but never comment on them.

[EmT]

Hi @moovme
Apologies for the delayed response, our team are exceptionally busy and we're working hard to try and reply to our users as soon as possible.

I cannot comment on why a feature has not be implemented or if/when it may be implemented in a future version. Your feedback has been heard and all I can advise is to use the resources given in my previous post. 

Our other users may also be able to advise on what workflow they use, if different to the above. They are usually very helpful to users who ask for assistance in the questions section. 

[moovme]

You have done everything you can to dance around putting in a real lens flare tool, which is what is desperately needed. I know brushes are there, but they are a totally sad and desperately inadequate answer to not adding in a much needed customizable lens flare tool. 

[firstdefence]

Not needed by me, I use Brainfevers Lens flare studio and create lens flare overlays when I need them, it was the same with Photoshops Lens flare tool it was ok but I found it a lacking.

[LeGivorden]

I just did a full switch over to Affinity Photo from Adobe Photoshop. For the most part I am much happier using Affinity Photo. But the lack of lens flares does suck. Photoshop had them and that was great when they were needed, but for the most part I really don't need them in most of my work so I won't cry about it. Still it would be nice to have them back. Fortunately there is one solution to this that I think is acceptable. Gimp. Gimp has the lens flare filter native to it. Affinity Photo and Gimp are both able to read and export psd files perfectly fine, so it shouldn't be too hard to do most of your work in Affinity Photo, then save it as a PSD file, and reopen it in Gimp just to do the lens flare or use some of the other features of Gimp, then resave it again as a PSD and switch back to Affinity Photo. It's not the most convenient way to work, but it's effective. What's more is Gimp is free, so it's not like you're having to fork out more money for yet another art program. 

Disclaimer! I have not tried this yet, so I reserve the right to be wrong about how effective it is. I will be giving it a try soon though. Worst that could happen is it doesn't work. 

[Archangel]

Yes, I had to use GIMP to achieve the supernova effect with lens flare.The rest is done in Affinity Photo with GMIC and Photo Reactor.