Neon Text  

Posted by Kostas in

End Result:



1.Open a new document with Black background.

2.Type your text, you should choose a thin font such as Bickley script.
and give it a White color.



3.Duplicate your text layer (Left click on the text layer -> Duplicate Layer),
and than Select->Load Selection, a window will open – click OK.



4. Left click on the layer & select "Rasterize Layer" or Layer-> Rasterize ->Type

5.While your selection is still active , go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur, enter 2.2 as Radius and hit OK, don't deselect!

6. With the duplicated layer still active, Go to Edit -> Stroke and
use these settings, the stroke width may very because of your font size.





7.Deselect (Ctrl+D) and make sure the original text layer is select: Layer -> Layer Style -> Outer Glow. Use the following settings:



8.Now drag your original text layer (not the duplicated one)
in the layers palette to the top and change its blending
mode from Normal to Overlay, you should have something
like this:



*Note, you can use any color you want for the text, just make sure the stroke text and Outer Glow text are close colors. (For example, my two shades of Blue)


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