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.
Remember as a kid you played with a mirror, putting your face to the side of it and your friends were laughing at the funny symmetry of your face and your faces reflection?
Due to work flow optimization guys at Adobe decided to hide some of the filters in Photoshop CS6, if you are missing some of them, you can easily make the visible again.
DOF or Depth Of Field is a commonly used technique in photography where you can precisely focus only part of the face or object you are taking shot of. Let's recreate this using Photoshop.
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.