Photoshop Tutorial: Neon Outlining
Learn how to outline yourself or any photo in this indepth tutorial. Category: Photo Effects
Learn how to outline yourself or any photo
in this indepth tutorial.|0. Open the picture you wish to "neonize".
1. Create a new, empty layer over the background. We'll be working with
this layer now, and fill this layer with a color. Black works best.
2. Make this new layer invisible. Click on the eye next to it to hide
it.
3. In the Paths windows, select create new path.
4. If there's a clipping path, delete it.
5. Select the Pen Tool.
6. Using the Pen Tool, begin to outline the shape of your subject.
Just use your mouse's cursor (and the Pen Tool) to create waypoint of that
path. When you're done with one path, create another.
Don't use a single path for everything. For example, if you're doing a face,
then outline the face with a single path, then create a new one for nose, another
for eyes, hair, and the works.
When you're done outlining all the lines you want "neoned", save,
then delete the background (original) layer, and "unhide" the Paths
layer you created earlier. The eye icon.
Now, lets start coloring it.
7. Select the brush tool.
8. Set the size of the brush to 24 (or something bigger/smaller, depending
on the size of your subject). Leave Flow and Opacity neutral - around 50%.
9. Select the first color. We'll go with green for this line.
Make sure the first shade of the color you use is rather dark.
10. After selecting the size and color, click on stroke path with brush.
11. This will make the line (lines?) you made like this:
12. Select a bit smaller brush size (lets say 19-20), and a little lighter
shade of green, then press stroke path with brush again. The path should now
look like this:
13. Repeat the process two more times, each times chosing a smaller
brush (~14 and ~10), and a little brighter shade of green. Effect after 4 strokes:
14. After doing your entire picture (covering every path you created with
a color of your chosing), delete all paths.
15. It now should look like this:
16. Also, an important advice. Be wary or the order in which you color
the paths. For example, when ding a human face, you want to color face outline
first, then hair. If you don't, then the face path will appear on top of the
hair path.
Example:
Feel free to experiment with different shades, or brush sized.
