Bloom Lens Flares

This is the pack's heavy artillery. Bloom Lens Flares is a full reshade optical stack in one node - bloom, lens dirt, anamorphic horizontal streaks, chromatic-lens ghosts, and volumetric god rays, each independently toggleable with a dozen knobs apiece. The author openly credits it: it's a port of the classic Bloom.fx shader (Marty McFly / Gilcher Pascal's reshade effect) reimplemented for torch. If you want that cinematic "lit through a dirty anamorphic lens" look on a hero shot, this is the node. It's also the most intimidating node in the pack, with roughly forty parameters staring at you.

How it works

It's six stacked sub-effects, each with its own enable switch and parameter block:

• Bloom (enable_bloom) - threshold, amount, saturation, tint, mix mode. The baseline glow
• Lens dirt (enable_lensdirt) - a dirt texture (the tex_dirt image input) smeared over highlights, with intensity/saturation/tint. This is what makes it look like you're shooting through a dusty lens
• Anamorphic flare (enable_anam_flare) - the horizontal blue streaks you get from anamorphic lenses. anam_flare_amount, curve, blur strength and kernel
• Lens ghosts (enable_chap_flare) - the classic ring of chromatic ghost circles along the light axis (chap_flare_count, dispersal, size, per-channel CA)
• God rays (enable_godray) - volumetric light shafts (godray_decay, exposure, weight, density, samples)
• Flare color (enable_flare_color) - a big blurred, tinted bloom (flare_luminance, flare_blur, flare_intensity)

Two required IMAGE inputs beyond the photo: tex_dirt and tex_sprite (the sprite is the streak/ghost source). The pack ships example lens textures under assets/textures/lens/, so you're not stranded.

Inputs that matter

Honestly: the enable_* toggles, and then two or three knobs in whichever sub-effect you actually care about. Don't touch all forty.

• tex_dirt / tex_sprite - the texture inputs. Point them at the pack's bundled lens textures
• enable_bloom / enable_anam_flare / enable_godray - the three that sell the cinematic look
• bloom_threshold - how much of the image is allowed to flare (start high, 0.8+)

One IMAGE out.

Install

Standard pack install:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/TrophiHunter/ComfyUI_Photography_Nodes

Restart, find it under TrophiHunter/Photography. No requirements beyond the pack's torch/PIL - the "dependencies" here are the texture assets, which ship in the repo.

Where people get burned

With every sub-effect enabled at defaults (which they are), the output can be a full-on lens festival - dirt everywhere, streaks, ghosts, rays. If it looks like a JJ Abrams fever dream, it's working as intended, and the fix is brutal curating: enable only what the shot needs. Also the defaults assume you have the textures wired; leaving tex_dirt/tex_sprite unwired makes the node error, so wire them first, then start disabling effects. And this is a late-chain effect - it's a lens artifact, so it goes after color grading but before final grain, same family as Chromatic Aberration.