Photoshop : Titles from outer space
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Michaël Ninness

The Following Glowing Lights

The creation of the other two glowing lights follows along the same lines:

  1. Create a Yellow layer based on the White layer, then place it below the White layer and select all its pixels.

  2. Choose Select > Modify > Expand and apply a value of 3 pixels, then Select > Feather and apply a value of 3 pixels.

  3. Choose a yellowish colour for the foreground (RGB values: 200, 255, 0).

  4. Fill the selection with this colour and deselect.

As far as the last glowing light is concerned:

  1. Create a Green layer based on the Yellow layer, then place it below the Yellow layer and select all its pixels.

  2. Choose Select > Modify > Expand and apply a value of 6 pixels, then Select > Feather and apply a value of 10 pixels.

  3. Choose green for the foreground colour (RGB values: 0, 255, 0).

  4. Fill the selection with this colour and deselect.



  5. Figure 3: The glowing lights in place.

We have finished our glowing lights, but we just have one last modification to make to the Text layer.

  1. Check the Preserve Transparency box in the Layers palette.

  2. Fill the Text layer with black.

You can stop there if you are happy with the result. Otherwise we can make a few more improvements to our title.



Figure 4: A first version of our title.



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