Well if you saw my speed run Photoshop when I made glowing typography, you may want to learn how to make it! And since you are probably my only reader, I’ll tell ya how I made it.
My FIRST Written Tutorial:Glowing Text Typography!
(Click any of the images to see the full size)
First, crack open a 1000×1000 photoshop document with 300ppi (pixels per inch)
Now paint-bucket yourself a nice dark color on the first layer. I picked #06003c.
After That you are going to use the type tool to type whatever you want in white. You can even use whatever font, and font settings you like. I used Myriad Pro and used these font character settings (the character menu is located in Window>Character ):
This was my result:
Then Ctrl-Click the text layer to select it, and create a new layer. I’m calling this layer “color”.
Create another layer on top of “Color” and name it “Gradient”. Then pick a white to transparent gradient and stretch it across the still selected text. When complete, delete the text layer and deselect the selection (Select >Deselect) . You should end up with something like this.
Now Select the Brush tool, and open the Brushes menu (Window>Brushes). Select any brush you like. I chose the 300px Fuzzy Circle.
Select: Shape Dynamics, Scattering, Color Dynamics, Wet Edges, Airbrush , and Smoothing In the brush menu.
be sure to set the correct settings for The first 3 brush options:
Choose a bright color (I chose #ff0000) , then Paint under your text while on the “color” layer . Here is what i ended up with:
Once complete, you can ctrl-click the “gradient” layer to select it. Then Inverse the selection, and press the delete key while on the “color” layer. Here is What it should look like:
Now, Put the Color layer on top of the Gradient layer, and duplicate it once, to make the color stronger. Then merge the 2 color layers together.
Hold down Shift and select both the “gradient” layer and the “color” layer. Then press ctrl+alt+e to merge the 2 layers into a separate layer.
Gaussian Blur (Fliters>Blur>Gaussian Blur) the “color (merged)” layer to 10px.
And that’s All! It’s really simple really. Now you can get creative and add a background, or change the layer effects to make it look more awesome, but that’s for later.
Here is a nice fill size image of the final result:
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