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Pros and cons of "Add lens flare" service in video editor

• How to add highlights to the video?
• Applications for creating highlights on video

Do you want to decorate your video, make it special, emphasizing its unique aesthetics, but don't know how? Recommended trying the glare effect on video. This is an interesting video retouching technique that can serve completely different artistic purposes. For example, you can emphasize the necessary details on your video – be it decorations, interior details, or object surfaces. Or perhaps the video lacks a romantic atmosphere, dreamy sunbeams or soft light, a flash of luxury, or a flashy holiday – glare can help here too.

In an ideal video, all the effects are obtained by themselves – the light is distributed evenly, emphasizing the necessary details, and the glare organically complements the aesthetics of the frame. But if you don’t have professional video equipment at hand, a team of cameramen and video directors, and a few days left, it’s unlikely that you will be able to create a perfect video. But do not be upset – today it is possible to add highlights to video using digital video retouching software. These tools can help you add the right effects to your video, draw the viewer's attention to important objects, and generally enhance the visual impact of your video. Let's understand how it works.

How to add highlights to the video?

When watching videos shot with a professional camera, we often notice glare or highlights in the frame. This effect makes the frame more expressive and alive, giving it fullness and richness. This phenomenon occurs because the lens of professional optics is not flat, but semicircular. Accordingly, when a light source falls directly on it (be it a sunbeam or artificial light from a lamp), stripes, circles, or spectra of light glare appear in the frame. It is almost impossible to achieve such an effect when shooting on a phone. Enthusiasts use tricks such as a water drop on the camera, or a wax stain. But the result usually looks very artisanal and bears little resemblance to the expected blowout on film.

To solve this problem, video editing professionals resort to video retouching. Today, there are two main ways to add highlights to a video. The easiest is to use digital generation from Adobe After Effects. Modern video post-processing programs can independently generate highlights and arrange them in the frame at their discretion. But, as we know from other reviews about video processing, the program does not always solve the problem perfectly. The best retouching is always the result of the handwork of a professional editor. At this point, the ideal option is to combine the work of the program with the highlights created previously by hand. To create such highlights, a professional camera shoots in complete darkness, then a beam of light is directed at it – and as a result, we have beautiful high-quality light. Then the black background of the frame is removed, leaving only a highlight – and it is already transferred to the right places in the video.

To create a high-quality picture, it is important to choose the right color and shape of the highlight, as well as place them in the frame to achieve the expected effect.

Applications for creating highlights on video

If video processing is a complicated topic for you, which you don’t want to understand, but you want to get beautiful retouching of your videos, we recommend installing a suitable video processing application. An excellent choice is RetouchMe. This is a team of professional video editing directors who will cope with any tasks in processing your videos in the shortest possible time. Each video is processed manually, taking into account your wishes and only the latest video retouching tools. Video editing has never been so convenient – just install the RetouchMe application and enjoy the result!

How to use the service “Add lens flare”

The RetouchMe application is available on iOS and Android platforms. You can download it from the Apple App Store, Google Play or Amazon App Store. The download is free. However, to use the service within the application, you will need a certain number of credits, the price of which depends on the selected services. To add credits to your balance, you can either buy top-up packages or subscribe on a monthly basis.

1. Launch or download the RetouchMe application.
2. Select a photo from your gallery that you want to use the “Add lens flare” service on.
3. Choose the category “Video”.
4. In this category, select the desired service “Add lens flare”.
5. Price of the “Add lens flare” service: 110 ⭐.
6. After selecting the services you want to use for the video, click on the "Proceed" button.
7. Review your order once again and click "Send to designer."

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