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1. New file: 500×200px.
- Fill the background with black color.
- Take the text-tool and write any text you want onto a new layer. Use a font size of 60 for this at least.
- Layer / Layer to picture size. Now your text-layer should be renderend and have the same size as the whole picture.
2. The next step is to create a strong outer glow.
- Click the layer with your right mouse button in the layers dialog menu. Choose “Selection from Alpha”.
- Select / Grow: 3px
- Add a new layer, name it “schein nach aussen” (which measn outer glow in German
).
- Fill the selection on this layer with #007eff
- In the layers dialog move the layer behind the text-layer
3. - Select / None (CTRL SHIFT A)
- Filter / Blur / Gaussian: 45px.
- Duplicate the layer and apply a gaussian blur again: 30px.
4. Click the glowing text-layer in the layers dialog to activate it.
- duplicate it
- on the duplicate apply another gaussian blur. Take a value of 15.
- Set the layers mode (found in the layers dialog at the very top above the opacity) to “Dodge”.
5. - Duplicate the “schein nach außen” / “other glow”-layer.
- in the layers dialog move it to the top of all layers, so thats it is above all the other layers. Set the layers mode to “Dodge” again. This step makes the glow effect even stronger
6. Done
- Fill the background with black color.
- Take the text-tool and write any text you want onto a new layer. Use a font size of 60 for this at least.
- Layer / Layer to picture size. Now your text-layer should be renderend and have the same size as the whole picture.
2. The next step is to create a strong outer glow.
- Click the layer with your right mouse button in the layers dialog menu. Choose “Selection from Alpha”.
- Select / Grow: 3px
- Add a new layer, name it “schein nach aussen” (which measn outer glow in German
).- Fill the selection on this layer with #007eff
- In the layers dialog move the layer behind the text-layer
3. - Select / None (CTRL SHIFT A)
- Filter / Blur / Gaussian: 45px.
- Duplicate the layer and apply a gaussian blur again: 30px.
4. Click the glowing text-layer in the layers dialog to activate it.
- duplicate it
- on the duplicate apply another gaussian blur. Take a value of 15.
- Set the layers mode (found in the layers dialog at the very top above the opacity) to “Dodge”.
5. - Duplicate the “schein nach außen” / “other glow”-layer.
- in the layers dialog move it to the top of all layers, so thats it is above all the other layers. Set the layers mode to “Dodge” again. This step makes the glow effect even stronger
6. Done
