Sunday, February 27, 2011

Basic tutorial on how to add glow effect to text in photoshop

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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.

Step1
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




thanks for reading
hope u like it

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