How do I make these distorted lenses flare memes in Photoshop? Is it a gradient or something?
Yes.
Well, take an extremely low res image, stretch it to a larger size document. Add a red color overlay with a low opacity. Then download a lense flair stock image, transform it to fit where you want it and you're done.
>>302178
You do know Photoshop has an actual lens flare tool, right???
Also what >>302297 said in that you can take a low res image (or make it lower res yourself by resizing it, saving it, then making it big again) but if you want it to have a lot of artifacting your best bet is probably to save the image on lowest quality possible several times until you feel it looks good
don't forget the motion blur
>>302322
Yeah you're right, I forgot about the flare tool.