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Outlining a Letter with Text

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Open a new document in photoshop sizing:

Now select your type tool.

Use the following settings:

Type a letter of your choice. I used the letter J in Arial black font.

Now, right click anywhere on the document and select “Create Work Path”…

You will want to hide the text layer so you can view the path. To do this, click the eyeball in the layers palette next to the text layer so you do not see it.

You will have this:

Change the size of your text to the following settings:

Click on the path, and you will get this:

You may now start typing whatever you want in the letter…

When you finish typing what you want inside the letter, you can change settings of the text by clicking this icon:

It will bring this up:

If you want equal spacing choose justify:

You will have this:

Choose the Layer with the one letter on it.

You may now change the color of the letter.

Right click on the Letter layer and choose Blending Options…

Use the following settings:

You will have this:

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Creating Neon Text in Photoshop

Monday, May 31st, 2010

In this tutorial we will go over how to create Neon Letters.

First, open a new file in Photoshop.

I chose the following sizes:

Select the Text   tool from the tools palette.

Select the Foreground color by clicking on the box in the upper left corner.

In this picture the foreground color is red:

Choose the following color by using these settings:

Enter text of your choice with the following settings:

Click on the Channels Tab in the Layers palette and select the Blue Layer:

Command  and click the box on the Blue Layer to select the text:

Go to Select > Inverse

It will look like this:

Go to Filter >  Render > Fibers

A window will then pop up to tell you to rasterize the layer, click OK.

Use the following settings:

Click “OK”

Click on the RGB Layer to make all the Channels visible.

Click on the Layers tab to return to the Layers.

Command   D to deselect.

Ctrl click on the layer to bring up Blending Options.

In the Blending Options window, use the following settings:

Click “OK”

Command  and click the box on the Layer to select.

Go to Select > Modify > Contract

Use the following settings:

Click “OK”

Click DELETE.

Command  D to deselect.

Ctrl click on the layer to bring up Blending Options.

Select the Outer Glow and use the following settings:
(the color stays the same)

Select the Inner Glow and use the following settings:

Click on the color box to bring up the Color Picker and use the following settings:

Click “OK”

Select Filter > Render > Lighting Effects

Adjust the circle around the text:

Click the color box.

Use the following color settings:

Use the following settings in the Lighting Effects:

Click “OK”

Here is the end result:

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