Learn how to create a three color glow without those darn layer styles. Category: Text Effects

Learn how to create a three color glow without those darn layer styles.

Step 1: Start off with a new 400x400px document and fill the background "#243962" with a dark blue, and put some text up with a darker blue "#0C1E40".


Step 2: Now click the background layer, and hit the "Create New Layer" button to create a layer below the text layer, and select the new empty layer. Now hold CTRL and click on the text layer to make a selection around the text. Now with the text selected and the empty layer selected, go up to Select -> Feather (Settings: 15px). If some popup comes up saying it won't be visible, just ignore it.

Step 3: Now with that done, set your forground to a nice darkish red "#B51424", and hit ALT + Backspace (not DEL). Hit it a few times till you get a result like below.


Step 4: Now create a new layer above the one you just filled with red. Select the new layer, and now change your foreground to "#E79913". Now it's pretty much the same idea from here, CTRL and click on the text layer again, and now go back up to Feather (CTRL + ALT + D) and this time put in 8px. Now hit ALT + Backspace (not DEL), till you get a result you are happy with.


Step 5: Same thing, but last time, create a new layer above the orange layer, and CTRL + click on the text layer, Feather about 2px this time, now use white as your foreground this time, and hit ALT + Backspace again, till you get what you like, feel free to use different colors if you would like, enjoy and hope this helped.

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