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glow effect |
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to add glow effect to your text without using any blending options.
open a new document of any size
in this tutorial 1280 x 720 @ 200pixels/inch
Step 2
choose foreground color #126595 and background black #000000
select the gradient tool (round gradient)
click on center of canvas and take it to extreme side and release
you will get the following effect
Step 3
create a new text layer with desired font
then you will get something like this
Step 4
create a copy of the text layer
ctrl +J or drag and drop the text layer on new layer icon
Step 5
now rasterize the copy of text layer
layer>rasterize or by right clicking on text layer thumbnail
Step 6
select the copied text layer which we had rasterized
go to filter>blur>gaussian blur and enter the following settings
the radius of pixels can vary according to the resolution of the image
after applying the gaussian blur we will get following results
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text glow |
Step 7
if you feel the glow is not enough just make a copy a blurred layer and again apply gaussian blur filter with a little higher settings
Final outcome
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luved it....thanks
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial. Simple and effective. Thanks!
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