Neon With Layer Styles Photoshop Text Effect

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create a new document. I'm using 1920x1200 pixels. Fill the background with black.

Step 2

Import your logo and duplicate it. We will use 2 layers to achieve the effect, one will be the glow and the other the neon light.

Step 3

Select one logo and go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 5.5 pixels for the Radius.

Step 4

With the other logo layer, go to Layer>Group Layers. Now you will have the layer inside a folder. Change that folder's Blend Mode to Color Dodge. Inside the folder select the logo layer and go to Layer>Layer Style>Inner Shadow. Use black for the color and Multiply for the Blend Mode. Change the Opacity to 75%, the Angle to -90º, Diastase to 1 pixel and Size to 2 pixels. Now a very important part, change the Contour to the Cone-Inverted preset.

After that select Outer Glow. Then use Color Dodge for the Blend Mode, 50% for the Opacity, 0% for the Noise, white for the color.

The last thing on this stepe is to add some blur. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. use 2.0 pixels for the Radius.

Step 5

Select all layers used to create the logo and duplicate them (Layer>Duplicate). Then merge the duplicated layers (Layer>Merge Layers). Now just go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur. Use 100 pixels for the Radius.

This layer will be beneath the logos.

Step 6

Add a new layer on top of the others and go to Filter>Render>Clouds. I love render clouds, it gives a nice touch to the design, more natural and less uniform. Also make sure that you were using black and white for the colors. After that change the Blend Mode to Soft Light and the Opacity to 30%.

Step 7

Select the blurry layer created in the Step 3 and then go to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow. Change the Blend Mode to Color Burn, use black for the color, 25% Opacity, 90º for the Angle, 20 pixels for the Distance and 10 pixels for the size. This layer style will create a shadow and add more depth to the composition.

Conclusion

Now you will be able to create really cool texts with light effects easily. Also I suggest that you play with the Contour options like I did in the Step 4. You can achieve totally different results by just changing the contour, it's a very powerful feature and a bit unknown for the majority. This was just an example, now it's up to you.

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Create a Dissolved Ancient Ink Text Effect

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Dissolved Ancient Ink Text Effect in Photoshop... Let's get started  guys !! 

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Paper Texture by *SilvieT-Stock

Ink Brushes

Font

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1280px * 700px with black background. Load the paper texture into Photoshop and select the whole image, copy and paste it onto our document. Rotate this new layer 90 degree and resize it to fit our canvas:

Load the Ink brushset into Photoshop, select the eraser tool and use the following three brushes to apply some rough edge effect to this paper texture:

Add the following 2 adjustment layers as clipping mask to the paper texture:

Black and White

Layer mask on the black and white adjustment layer:

Levels

and here is the effect so far:

Step 2

Create a new layer and use a white soft brush to paint some light over the texture layer:

Use the font we downloaded to type some texts onto the canvas:

Rasterize the type as shown below by right-click the text layer and choose “Rasterize Type”:

Grab the eraser tool and choose the chalk brush:

Apply this chalk brush gently around the edge of the text to add some disolved effect:

Step 3

Apply the following blending options to this text layer:

Bevel and Emboss

Inner Glow

Pattern Overlay

and here is the effect so far:

Step 4

Let’s add some abstract dots and lines around the cavnas for some extra effect. Create a new layer and use a 100% hardness, white brush to paint a dot as shown below:

Then use a slightly smaller eraser with 100% hardness to remove the centre portion to form a circle:

Use the line tool to draw a line with the following tool settings:

Duplicate this dot and line layer and link them together as shown below:

Merge these lines and dots layers and duplicate the merged layer a few times, scatter them around the canvas as shown below:

Step 5

We’re almost done! For some final touches, I flatten the image and duplicate the background layer, use the Lasso Tool with a 30px to draw a selection around the text:

Apply the following Surface Blur filter to this selection:

For adjusting the colour effect, we can add the following Selective Color adjustment layers:

We can render or paint some cloud effect around the text as well for some extra dramatic effect:

Add the following Levels adjustment layer on top:

and here is my final effect for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day! [ PSDPLUS ]

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