A-Wings
Andrew,
A lens flare is an effect that you apply in an image editor like
Photoshop. It simulates the glare and prismatic effects of taking a photo with
the sun in front of the camera.
The "satellite photography" fill in Corel just makes a graphic that looks
like land masses that have been photographed from an altitude. There are
programs like Fractint that will let you create a starfield, but nothing that
looks like the one astronomers photograph. Other highend apps use effects like
particles to create steam, gases, and nebula. I just cut & paste up a bunch of
starfield and nebula photos and switch around rgb channels, and make light and
contrast adjustments.
The forum where I upload my Star Wars stuff is the SF Fantasy Media Forum,
in the Star Wars Library. Maybe you ask the sysop why your images weren't left
in here?
Michael S. Flynn