Light leaks effects are one of the key ingredients for giving your photos the retro style treatment. You can quickly achieve a basic light leak effect by simply painting a splodge of red in the corner of your image, but you can’t beat the authenticity of a proper light leak overlay. This free pack of light leak textures allows you to easily add a colourful light burn to your images by overlaying the texture file in Photoshop, giving you an instant retro effect.
The pack contains 15 light leak textures of varying shapes, sizes and orientations. Some slightly creep in from the edge while others cover half the image, but they’re all created with vibrant colours to give your photos the bright light leak effect commonly seen in lomography and old photos from the 70’s.
Light leak textures preview
How to use the light leak textures
Open up your chosen texture file in Adobe Photoshop and paste it onto a new layer above your photograph. Simply change the blending mode of the layer to Screen to render the black area transparent and allow the colours of the light leak overlay to interact with your image.
Download the light leak texture pack
Download the texture pack and feel free to use them in your commercial and personal designs. If you find them useful, I’d really appreciate it if you helped spread the word with a tweet or a ‘like’.
Nice share info. Thanks you.!
Thank Chris, nice. I like the retro feel and this is just ace. I am Downloading…
ooohh lovely stuff Mr Spooner!! Sweet!
Thanks for this!
Great collection of textures, thanks for sharing
A great way to retrofy your images.
Thanks for these.
So great! THANKS! :D
Lovely pack and of real use for that retro feel.
Thanks a bunch!
Thanks very much Chris. Very cool pack indeed.
artistic example which i experience with my own photos and now going to impliment into designs.
Everyone loves a freebie. Great of you to share this. We love everything retro.
Love the retro love the texture pack! thanks Chris!
Sweet! Thank you for this melancholic sunshine :)
The effects are realy intresting. It is good to know that somebody around gives something usefull for free. Thanks man
Your awesome!!!
Please Chris am working on a dropdown menu bar, but how do i link the css to the html in Dreamweaver, Please. Thanks
Thanks for sharing, this will be really useful! :)
wow awesome, thanks
Thanks a lot, Chris!
Very cool!
Thank you, this is a great pack. Used them in this Photo Booth plugin for Mac!
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Great post, love them all!