hey i have been trying to create 3d crytals based on this tuts
http://www.voidix.com/cystal.html
but once i create 400x400 page… i can’t click on filter>render>lense flare… (lense flare is unclickable).
can anyone help?
Fill your layer with Black and then use the Lens Flare.
A Lens Flare can only be used on an object, if the layer is empty, you can’t use it.
lost you are wrong. all you do is set your forground color to black, then do alt+backspace, then Filter|Render|Lense Flair. note: this must be done in the bg layer.
glad to help, contact if you have troubble,
mike
mdipi, you pretty much just said the same thing I said.
Except the lens flare does not <B>HAVE</B> to be done in the background.
So how am I wrong?
just the fact that you said there had to be something in the layer. i should have been more specific, sorry if you took it the wrong way, my bad.
[edit]for this tut its better if you do have it in the bg.
You do have to have something in the layer.
If you do it on the background layer, it is already filled.
If you are doing it on a new layer (the way I did the tutorial), you need to fill the layer, because you can’t put the flare in an empty layer.
mdipi… lost is correct on this one - YOU CANNOT ADD A LENS FLARE TO AN EMPTY LAYER.
Peace
If it is any cosolation, I think that tutorial wasn’t written as good as it could have been. I wasn’t sure whether or not to use the background layer for it, so I created a new layer and did everything in there, returned the same results.
thanx guys 
p.s. hey lost! long time no chat 
Lol, definitely. 
…Flame packs anyone?
What do you mean morse?
lost, i made 400x400 file then created new layer, filled it with black and go filter>render>and “lens flare” is still unclickable… what did i do wrong?
Do you have that layer selected?
I just tried and it works fine for me. It did when I did the tutorial as well.
you HAVE to use the bg layer, fill it with black thats all, otherwise it wont work…
errrrr… for some reason my “lens flare” is still unclickable…
Did you try using the bg layer calaway.
Mdipi: I did the entire tutorial without using the background layer, you do not HAVE to use the background layer.
ya i just tried
first, i filled the bg layer with black
then select the bg layer and fiter > rander> but lens flare’s unclickable
Go to the top menu under: Image >>> Mode >>> RGB Color
You are probably running that image as greyscale or indexed color…does this work for you?
sweeet thanx dan! after i changed to RGB color it works !! thanx
