Fast making a neon glow text effect in Photoshop


In this tutorial you will see, how you in a few fast and easy steps can make a text neon glow effect in Adobe Photoshop.
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Start by making a text layer with your text, scale it in size, we need some room around the text for later.

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2.
Hold down ctrl and click the text layer to get the selection, then go to select -> modify -> expand, and set it to 20 px.

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3.
Make a new layer for the selection, go to filter -> render -> clouds, then use different clouds about 2-4 times.

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4.
Now delete the first text layer we made so we only have the border around the text.

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5.
Now go to image -> adjustments -> levels and drag the handles as in the image below. Make sure to bring out the white colors.

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Go to image -> adjustments -> hue and saturations and drag the handles as in the image below.

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The last thing is to double click the text layer to get to the layers style menu, then give it an outer glow with settings as below.

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