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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
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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