Animated Glowing Text

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This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a glow text effect.

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Step 1.

First of all make new Photoshop document, with a black background and then create some brown (7B4D2F) large (150 pt) thick text. I've used "BorisBlackBloxx" for this but any thick font, such as Arial Black, will do.

Step 2.

Make a selection of the text, using the magic wand tool, and create a new layer below it. Expand (select > modify > expand) the selection by 2 pixels. Set the foreground color to orange (C65D29) and then use the paint bucket tool to fill the selection (image b).

a)		b)

Step 3.

Create another layer below the orange filled layer, set the foreground color to a dark brown (3E2B26). Expand the selection by a further 5 pixels and fill it on the new layer.

Step 4.

Create another layer below the dark grown layer, expand the selection by 7 pixels and fill the new layer with a dark red color (783643)

Step 5.

Contract (select > modify contract) the selection by 5 pixels, feather (select > feather) it by 3 and then delete the area that's selected.

Step 6.

Make a selection of the original text, using the magic wand tool, and create a new layer above it. Contract the selection by 6 pixels and fill it with black.

Next go to Animated Glowing Text - Part 2) Creating the Glow

Part: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

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