Neon Glow – desperate for help please!

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ejungle
May 17, 2008
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RE: Photoshop CS3

I am learning to use Photoshop and doing well(ish) I thought, but am totally frustrated with this probably very simple process that I cannot get.

I have one word that I need to give the effect of a neon glow.

So far I have:

1. Filter
2. Artistic
3. Neon Glow
4. Now, when the Neon Glow (100%) window comes up, I cannot get anything to change or do a thing? Please give me some direction from here.
My word is there, should it be selected? If so whith which tool? etc.

Thanks in advance!
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Phosphor
May 18, 2008
What color is your object or type? What are your background/foreground colors in the Color Picker? What color is the Glow swatch? Have you tried sliding the sliders? Is the layer transparent or merged with a background color?
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ejungle
May 18, 2008
Hi Ed
Thanks for your reply.
I’m not sure that I can answer all the questions though!

The type is black at the moment, but I want the neon glow/sign to be blue. The bacground is just as it is when you open a new document and type text. Tried the sliders but they didn’t seem to do anything.
And, I don’t know if the layer is transparent or merged with the background colour? Kate
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Phosphor
May 18, 2008
You should have your Layers palette open. Then it will be obvious whether your type is on a transparent background or not.

When you enter type it is on a transparent background (the checkerboard). It needs to be rasterized for filters to work on it. Merge it with a white background (or flatten) to do that. Then call up the filter,

There is a colored square in the filter dialog. Click this to bring up the Color Picker and choose your glow color. How it will appear depends on where the sliders are.
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Donald_Reese
May 18, 2008
I must add that i just played around with a text layer and tried the filter- artistic -neon glow on that layer, and no matter what color i choose using the color picker box, it still keeps the color that is showing in my foreground/background box. it shows the selected color in the color picker,but never changes it. i can pick a color in the swatches and make the glow that color,but not from the color picker in the neon glow. maybe she is seeing the same thing.
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ejungle
May 19, 2008
thanks for your help guys.
I will keep trying.
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John Joslin
May 19, 2008
I think most of the artistic filters are old and crude and never were very good.

For a neon glow effect, have a look at this tutorial:

<http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/NeonArtSM.mov>
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ejungle
May 19, 2008
thanks John – will check it out.
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Phosphor
May 19, 2008
I agree. You could probably do what you want with Layer Styles and have a lot better control and it would be editable.

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