creating sun stars with GIMP or so

[s7habo (Boris Hajdukovic)]

Hi @betazoid,

You can read this tread here:

*Adding* natural-looking flare

I got a question from someone asking “how do I make natural-looking flares in GIMP like in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p6javeTzvk , the GIMP tutorials I’ve found are just about geeky sci-fi flares”. I agree if they were showing https://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-flarefx.html. The stuff in the video looks quite simple, but the closest thing I can find to their “Plastic Wrap” is Supernova (using 0 spokes), where the edges are too sharp so it doesn’t look very good. Anyone know of a better way? …

I made a video on how to do this with gradient flare filters in GIMP (Filters - Light and Shadow - Gradient flare):

Flare with GIMP

In Selector tab of the filter you can choose distant sun preset and edit it according to your taste.