Powerful flare features.

Lens Flare Pro is the main tool of the Knoll Spark Pack. The tool has a wide variety of features to assist in getting exactly the lighting effect you're looking for.

The Multi-Tracker. Inside the Lens Flare Pro spark, the 'Multi-Tracker' allows you to track flares to the center of numerous luminance points, such as a particle system or track points in shot. This makes compositing multiple lens flares and using them with other filters to create additional effects much easier.

Here's an example of a basic particle effect. Use this as the luminance source for the Multi-Tracker to track our flares. [play]

Auto-Track feature. When the flare position is set to 'Auto-Track', the light source location of a single flare is controlled by the luminance of the input. Among other uses, Auto-Track can be used to control the size of the flare depending on the size of the luminance area being tracked.

Track flares to the center of their luminance points. The Knoll particle system is rendering out small white circles. For every white circle, a flare is added. [play]

Use Obscuration Layer. An obscuration layer is a grayscale or b/w mask that describes anything blocking the light source, in order to add believability to the composite. In Knoll's Obsucration Layer parameter, the grayscale matte is used to turn the lighting effect off when the light source enters the white area.

An example of using an 'Obscuration Layer'. The flare is affected by the alpha channel of the plane and reacts accordingly. [play]

The Lens Editor.

A main part of the interface is the Lens Editor and its flare primitives. Here are some other cool features. The spark includes an Edit feature to model the lighting effect by layering lens primitives which represent lens reflection artifacts. You can match any camera lens or create completely original lighting effects. Read about the Editor on this page.