Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to quickly create
a powerful, luminous text effect.
Create a new document by pressing Ctrl + N on Windows or Cmd + N on a Mac.
Make the Width: 1550 pixels,
the Height: 870 pixels and the Resolution
150 pixels per inch. If your foreground and background colors
aren't black and white, click this icon or press "D" on your keyboard.
To fill your document with black,
press Alt or Option + Delete to fill it with the foreground color.
We want to invert them. To do this,
click this icon or press "x" on your keyboard.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool
and pick a font. I'm using
"MT Matto Script Bold". If you'd like to use it,
I provided its link in the video description or project files
Choose a size that will fit all the words comfortably on your document.
The anti-aliasing is irrelevant, since we're ultimately going to blur the font.
The color should be white. Click on your document
and type at your text.
If you have more than one line of text,
and want to adjust the space between lines also known as "leading",
go to Window and Character.
This opens the Character panel.
Double-click the large "T"
to highlight all the lines of text
and slide the "leading" icon
to the right or left to shift the leading
down or up
When you're done,
you can close the Character panel.
To reposition it on your document,
open your Move Tool and move it.
Go to Filter, Blur
and Gaussian Blur.
When you see this warning,
click OK to rasterize the text.
I'll blur it 6 pixels,
however, if the size of your text is larger, you should increase the amount of
blur until it looks similar to this example. Then, click OK.
CLick the Adjustment layer icon and choose "Levels".
Make the black input: 156,
the Midtone input: 0.64,
and keep the white input: 255.
Click the Adjustment layer icon
again and this time choose "Color Balance".
For "Shadows",
make the Cyan/Red: 41 and the Yellow/Blue: -65.
For Midtones,
make the Cyan/Red: 5, the Magenta/Green: 50
and the Yellow/Blue: -100.
For "Highlights",
make the Cyan/Red: 100 and the other colors: -100.
If your text has areas that are a bit too thin,
and hard to see, click the thumbnail of the text layer to make it active
and hold and Ctrl or Cmd as you click on it again
to make a selection of its shape.
Hide the selection
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + H.
Open your Brush Tool
and give it a medium-size.
The Hardness is 0% and reduce its opacity to 10%.
Now, brush over areas that you want to make more visible
To deselect the hidden selection,
press Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Make a composite snapshot of your image
by making your top layer active
and pressing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E on WIndows
or Cmd + Shift + Option +E on a Mac.
Go to "Se;ect" and "Color Range".
Select, "Shadows" and click OK
to make a selection. Invert the selection
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut the text from its background
and copy it to its own layer.
Since we now have to text cut from the composite snapshot,
we don't need the composite snapshot anymore.
Let's drag it to the trash.
Double click the thumbnail of the cut-out, text to open its Layer Style window.
Click "Outer Glow".
Click the color box
and pick bright red. Its numeric value is FF0000.
Then, click OK. Change the blend mode to "Normal".
The Opacity is 75% and the Spread is 10%.
I'll make a glow size 38 pixels,
however, if your text is larger, make the glow size larger, as well.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!