Neon Glow Text Effect using Photoshop

In this tutorial, I am going to create some sharp-looking neon glow effects on 3D text using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and some filters. Most of this tutorial is done in Photoshop, the 3D letters are created in Illustrator. If you don't have Illustrator, you can also try making 3D letters in Photoshop, I will show you how? The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you'll pick up some tips and techniques you didn't know before. Lets get start. Program : Adobe Photoshop CS3 Difficulty : Intermediate Estimated Time : 1 hr. Tutorial Provider : Vecteezy Final Result : Advanced-Neon-Glow-Effect_final

STEP 1

Let's start by creating a new document . Set the dimensions of the canvas to 1800×1200 px. with Black background color (# 000000). Step_1

STEP-2 (Create Background)

Take a new layer, using Elliptical Marquee Tool(M) create circular shape in the center of canvas and give Feather radius 100pt. (Ctrl + Alt D) then fill it with green color(# 089724). It'll look nicer at the end. Step_2 Then duplicate the layer and change the layer mode to Color Dodge. This will make your light ball a stronger light effect as shown. Step_2a Take a new layer, Set the background color to White (# ffffff) Foreground color to Black (# 000000) and make selection around the ball shape by holding Ctrl button click on layers thumbnails. Then create cloud effect go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Step_2b Change the layer mode to Overlay and change the Opacity to 35%. Now go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome, change the settings (Detail 10 & Smoothness 10) as shown below and press OK. Step_2c The effect will look like this after adding Chrome. Step_2d

STEP-3 (Creating text)

Create 2 new layers, using Horizontal type Tool(T) type NEON in one layer and GLOW in another layer then place them as shown. Step_3 Then double click on NEON Text layer to access the layer style and give Outer Glow as shown below. Step_3a The effect will look like this after adding Outer Glow. Step_3b Lets add styles to the Glow, double click on the glow text layer to access the layer style and add Gradient Overlay, Inner Glow and Stroke as shown. Step_3c Step_3d Step_3e The effect will look like this after adding above styles. Step_3f

STEP-4 (Creating 3D effect )

Lets start to create 3D effect to the GLOW text. Duplicate the glow text layer and remove all layer styles, fill with (#101010 )color of it then move a bit top left I as shown. Step_4 Take a new layer using Pen Tool(P) make connections and fill with same color(#101010) Step_4a Make the connections to the below showed areas. Step_4b Using same method make the connections to create top surface and fill it with (#252525) dark gray color and merge the these three layers. Step_4c lets change the color of the text using Color Balance(Ctrl +B) give values (0, +60, –60) as shown. Step_4d Then double click the Glow text layer to access the layer style and add below styles. Step_4e Step_4f The effect will look like this after adding above styles. Step_4g

STEP-5 (Creating lighting curves)

In this step we will give beautiful effect to the text by adding lighting curves and sparkles. To do this in a new layer using Pen Tool (P) draw curved line as I shown. Step_5 After creating the curves right click on curve line, select Stroke path, select Brush and click Ok. Select Soft Round 4-5 pixel brush (B) with Green color(#3dfc65). and hit F5 to see Other Dynamics of Brushes and follow setting as shown below step_5a The Brush strokes will look like this step_5b Now duplicate the layer and scale it a bit small step_5c Then double click on curved line layers to access the layer style and give Outer Glow as shown below. step_5c The effect will look like this. Using Eraser Tool(E) erase lines at below showed areas.

STEP-6 (Add sparkles on lines)

At the final stage I have decided to finish by adding some sparkles on the curved lines, for that take default Soft Round Brush(B) and make settings as shown. Create sparkles on lines using this brush and Green color(# 1eb43e). Use small brush to add sparkles at the start and end points of lines. You can add Outer Glow to the sparkles as we given to lines in the above step, so that they looks more effectively. Here is how our final effect looks. Final Effect: Advanced-Neon-Glow-Effect_final Hope you enjoyed by reading this tutorial, lets have a try. Thank you!  Download
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