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Creating lens flares using Fireworks

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Alan Musselman

Alan Musselman

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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Creating a lens flare with the Star Auto Shape
  3. Creating a lens flare with the Zoom blur Live Filter
Created:
04 Oct 2006
User Level:
Beginner, Intermediate
Products:
Fireworks undefined or later

There are many different ways to create lens flares, and using tools like Auto Shapes and Live Filters in Fireworks® 8 makes it easy. In this article, I’ll show you how to create different lens flare effects in Fireworks using two different blur effects.

Requirements

To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:

Fireworks 8

Prerequisite knowledge:

General knowledge of Fireworks.

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About the author

Alan currently plans to excavate an ancient Mayan ruin in the Yucatan Peninsula while streaming the progress with Flash® Media Server. When he's not snowboarding in Tahoe, he's hiking around California and exploring San Francisco.