Typography : Create Cool Glow text effect in Photoshop

 

Final Image:

glow text tutorial

Resource:

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Create Back ground:

Step-1

Draw Radial gradient (light gray and dark gray colors) using “Gradient Tool (G)”

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Add little bit of noise (filter >> noise >> Add noise) to remove banding from the above image.

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Step-2

Type text with “Ubuntu-Title” font style with blue color (#52A6EE). Take font size as per your requirement.

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Step-3

Set following layer styles to the text.

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You supposed to get result like this…

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Step-4

Press “Ctrl” and left click of mouse on the text layer to make selection of the text.

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Step-5

Create new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N).

Go to Select >> Modify >> Contract. Set contract option to 10

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Fill it with white color in the new layer.

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Blur(Gaussian blur) it a little bit to look like this….

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Step-6

Lets add some particles.

For this, select following brush style and properties.

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Step-7

Select white color and draw particles in a new layer like this…

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Step-8

Duplicate the particles layer and blur(Gaussian blur) it to 1.3 pixels to get result like this…

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Step-9

Finally, lets add frames .

Select Rounded rectangle tool with following properties.

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Draw frame and make selection.

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Hide drawn frame and add stroke(Edit >> Stroke) to the selection in new layer with width 15pixel.

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Add bevel and emboss

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You get result like this.

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Step-10

Duplicate the frame layer and remove “bevel and emboss” effect.

Move the duplicated layer below original layer.

Blur(Gaussian) it to get result like this….

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Similarly add two more frames.

glow text tutorial

I hope you find this tutorial useful.

Enjoy!!