How to do a lens flair?

[Pdn Fan Gabriel]

Hello my name is Gabriel, and I am a huge Paint.NET fan. I would like to know some things though like if someone would ever take the time to make a "Lens Flare/Glare" Plugin (I have almost all of them. I have 137). Something like this (or tell me how to do it with a tut):

I would also like to know if someone can make a tut or show me or give me advice on how to shade little sprites from the game called "MapleStory". Here are some picture references:

Here are some things I made with Paint.NET:

I would like to know how to shade just like the Game Designers of MapleStory to start making my own custom items for it. Here is a simulator for the game "MapleStory" made by Ion of BannedStory. http://maplesim.com/app/index.html

Please and thank you in advance!

Thank you for your time reading and replying to this.

[Mike Ryan]

Hello! Welcome to the forum but unfortunetly I can only help you with one topic. There is indeed a Lens Flare plugin already in existence. You can find it here

[k.digennaro]

Welcome, give me just a minute I'm going to try to dig up an old thread, it had a link on how to draw and color sprites, I think it was pokeman sprites, but it's the same concept.

edit: Wow! That time I actually found what I was looking for .

http://www.dragonflycave.com/recoloring.aspx

Here's the original thread.

http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22609

edit: I hope that site is helpful, if not let us know and we can help you further.

[Pdn Fan Gabriel]

Thank you both of you for helping me, I will try to learn what I can from the sprite tut. It looks great and so does the lens flare. Thanks.

[k.digennaro]

Any time, let us know if you need any further help .

Good Luck!

Kevin