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Create a Glossy Neon


Text E滋ect and Stars in
Photoshop
MARCH 13, 2013 by ADRIEN | SUPERCOLOR in category PHOTOSHOP, TUTORIALS with  25
and  1

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Layer Styles and Patterns are very powerful tools in


Photoshop, you can have create cool e滋ects using those
tools.
Follow this step by step Photoshop Tutorial to create a Glossy Neon Text Effect with a star eld
background creating a custom Pattern, using a lot of layer styles and adding a few highlights.

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Resources Needed for this Tutorial:


● Free Photoshop Stars Patterns Pack 1
● Dirt Pattern

Step 1 – THE New Document and Background


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Open up Photoshop and create a new document, use your screen resolution for the size, I used
2560x1440px with a Transparent background. Fill this background layer with a dark colour,
#1E1E1E, go to Edit – Fill – Color and add this dark colour and rename this layer “Background“, place
this layer in a new group, rename this group “Background“.

Add a Gradient Overlay Layer Style on this background layer going from #161626 to #010101
with those parameters:

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Create a new layer, Fill it with white, Edit – Fill – White. Add a Gradient Overlay Layer Style on this
background layer going from #E93080 to #902985 with those parameters:

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Place this layer in a new group, change the Blending Mode of the group to Overlay and rename
both this layer and the new group “Background 2“.

Step 2 – Star Field Background 


In this step we’ll create a star eld background using a few stars photoshop patterns I’ve published
previously. download the Free Photoshop Stars Patterns Pack 1, load those patterns in Photoshop.
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Create a new Pattern Fill, Edit – New Fill Layer – Pattern and select one of the stars pattern.
Change the Blending Mode of this pattern ll layer to Color Dodge.

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Add 3 or 4 more Pattern Fill Layers using the other stars patterns, also playing with the scale % in
the Pattern Fill options. Make sure the Blending Mode of those layers is set to Color Dodge. Place
those stars patterns layers in a new group, rename this group “Star Patterns“.

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Download the Dirt Pattern available in the Resources Needed section at the top of the tutorial.
Load this pattern in Photoshop, create a new layer, Fill it with a black, Edit – Fill – Black. Add a
Pattern Overlay Layer Style with this Dirt pattern with those parameters and change the Fill of this
layer to 0%.

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Step 3 – Line Pattern


Now let’s create a nice custom line pattern, then we’ll add it to our background. Create a new
document 500x500px with a transparent background. Select the Rectangle Tool (U) and create 4
white rectangle lines (the lines are black in my exemple for a better preview), 500x10px, one on
each side of the canvas.

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Create 2 new white lines in the center of the canvas, one vertical the other horizontal.

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Create 2 new diagonal lines like below :

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Create a 40x40px circle using the Ellipse Tool (U) in the center of the canvas.

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Select all the canvas, Select – All then go to Edit – De ne Pattern and save the pattern.

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Create a new layer, Fill it with White, Edit – Fill – White then apply a Pattern Overlay Layer Style
with the Lines pattern we just created and those parameters (make sure the Fill of this layer is set to
0% and the Blending Mode of the Pattern Overlay is set to Overlay) :

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Step 4 – Blur Colours


In this step we’ll add a few colours in the background, select the Brush Tool (B) with a big soft
rounded brush, and paint on a new layer with a vibrant colour.


Continue painting with other colours, create a new layer for each colours.
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Merge all those colour layers, to do this, select all the colour layers, Right Click on them and select
Merge Layers. Apply a Motion Blur Filter on this new merged layer with 0° Angle and 2000px
Distance. Filter – Blur – Motion Blur.

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Change the Blending Mode of this merged layer to Overlay, its Fill to 50% and rename this layer
“Color Blur“. Place all the layers we created since the beginning in a new group named “Backgroung“.

Step 5 – Neon Text 


Now we have created the background, let’s dive into the text, I want to created a text with a lot of
highlights and different colours, rst let’s choose a font, I used a font called “Bello“, I wrote
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“Supercolor” in the center of the canvas then “Tuts” under “Supercolor” in white.

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Keep this original text layer, we’ll duplicate it a few times, duplicate it one time and apply those
some Layer Styles on the duplicated text layer with those parameters :

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Duplicate the original text layer one more time, place the duplicated text layer on top of the other
layers and apply some other Layer Styles on it with those parameters :

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Duplicate the last text layer with the layer styles we just worked on, place the duplicated text layer
on top of the other layers, now let’s add little blur on this text effect, apply a Gaussian Blur Filter
with a 20px Radius, Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur. Change the Blending Mode of this blur layer to
Screen and its Opacity to 50%.

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Duplicate the original text layer one more time, place the duplicated text layer on top of the other
layers and apply some other Layer Styles on it with those parameters :

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Duplicate the original text layer one last time, place the duplicated text layer on top of the other
layers and apply those Layer Styles on it :

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Now that we added a lot of Layer Styles, let’s use a few lters to add more effects on this text, select
all the text layer we’ve been working on in this step except the original text layer and press the
Cmd+Alt+E keys on your keyboard, this will merge all those text layers into a new one and
Duplicate this new merged layer 3 times.

On the rst duplicated merged layer, apply the High Pass Filter with a 5px Radius, Filter – Other –
High Pass. Change the Blending Mode of the rst duplicated layer to Overlay.

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Now select the second duplicated merged layer, apply a Plastic Wrap Filter, Filter – Filter Gallery –
Artistic – Plastic Wrap with those parameters :

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Change the Blending Mode of this layer to Soft Light.

Select the third and last duplicated merged layer and apply an Emboss Filter on it with a 90° Angle,
1px Height and 235% for the Amount. Change its Blending Mode to Overlay.

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Step 6 – Text Highlights


In this step we’ll add some highlights on and around the text, create a new layer, select the Brush
Tool (B) with a soft rounded brush and white for the colour and paint on the edges of the text like in
the exemple below :

Right click on the little thumbnail with a T on the original text layer and click on Select Pixels,
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will load a selection of the text, go back on the highlight layer we just created and create a Layer
Mask, Layer – Layer Mask – Reveal Selection. Change the Blending Mode of this layer to Overlay.

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Place all the layers we created in Step 5 and the Highlight layer we just worked on in a new group,
rename this group “Text“.

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Before starting this part, make sure your foreground and background colours are set to black and
white, press the D key on your keyboard to reset the colours. Create a new layer, select the Lasso
Tool (L), make sure the Feather in the Toolbar is set to 50px and create an oval selection on the text
like below :

Apply a Cloud Filter in this selection, Filter – Render – Clouds, place this cloud layer in a new group
and place this group behind all the layers in the text group. Make a selection of the original text
layer like we did before (right click on the text layer thumbnail – Select Pixels) and create a Layer
Mask with the selection on the Cloud group, Layer – Layer Mask – Reveal Selection and change the
Blending Mode of the Cloud group to Color Dodge.

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Let’s add a little more highlights on this text, create a new layer, select the Brush Tool (B) and paint
on the text with a soft rounded brush and white for the colour.


Make a selection of the original text layer like we did before (right click on the text layer thumbnail
– Select Pixels) and create a Layer Mask with the selection on this new layer, Layer – Layer Mask –
Reveal Selection. Change its Blending Mode to Color Dodge and Fill to 35%, place this layerin the 
“Background” group on top of the other layers.

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