Flare in a Grey color with the black background

Question

Hi:
I just need to fix this problem and can't find a solution.
Why I'm getting a grey Flare when I open it with a black background, but it's in color when I open it in a white background?
I know that flare works better with a black background, but for any reason it looks grey and it's hard to create effects.
Can anybody help me? please. I'll appreciate it.
Thanks
- Pepe

Answer 1

This is very exciting you are the third person to post a qquestion about the flare tool since I can remenber and I can remember before the falre tool existed.
You need to have the flare effect behind an object to get the full impact so you would put it behind a black object or a colored object. If you place it on a white back ground you only se the actual construction of the device before it has the effect which has to be applied to an object.
So how do you get a white object to show the effect since does not work with a white object?
Interesting that you asked you apply it say to a black object instead. You say what? that is the opposite of what i want?
Abraccadabra!
you open it with Photshop as a Smart Object that keeps it a live ai file which can be update and the changes will be reflected in the photoshop file.
You then go to layers>Adjustments>invert and that will make the color object white instead of black but will also ivert the colors of the flare
but you can adjust those colors using Hue Saturation as an adjust manet layer
then save as a psd file and place it in Illustrator as linked files, you will be able to adjust the smart object in ai save it then save the psd file and it will updated in the new illustrator file.
Created in AI
Placed in Photoshop as a smart object and given a Invert adjustment layer
then I worked on the color with Hue Saturation adjustment layer you can acheive a lot more than I tried that way.