Adding a lens flare can make or break a certain image. The best kind of lens flare is the natural one taken through the actual lens of a camera, but if we do it the right way, we can recreate it using Photoshop just as good.
Not your average pixel effect tutorial, let me show you a nice little trick where you apply the normal square pixelated effect and turn it into checkered, diamond looking photo pixels.
A bit longer Photoshop tutorial, but still very suitable for beginners, where you will learn how to carve a random text into human skin from scratch and make it look realistic.
