What We'll Be Creating
You can find this folder download link in the video description
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Let's get started
After extracting the assets files, You'll have Comfortaa Font, Tutorial Background, and Wire action
Go ahead and install the font first
Open the PSD Background file
Import the action file "Wire.atn"
You can check the action commands for further understanding
Also, you can check the Wall & Fixings layers for further details. I've created them for you to minimize the tutorial length and to focus only on creating the Neon Effect
Go a head and pick up the Type Tool and type "Neon"
Change font to Comfortaa Bold with size "550 Pt"
Convert to Smart Object
Double-click thumbnail to open the Smart Object
Using Crop Tool, you can widen the smart object size to about 2000Px *2000 Px, it is the same as the main document size
That would give you the ability to add more text inside the smart object if needed
Press CTRL+S to save
Rename to "Text"
Duplicate it with CTRL + J 4 times
Select the 5 Layers and decrease Fill to 0%, then make a group of them
Name it "Neon Text"
From this point, we are going to style every layer from bottom to top to give us a proper neon effect
Double click "Text" Layer to open its Layer Style window
Please enter the given values. these values are the most suitable values chosen after several trials to give you the proper neon effect.
The "Text" layer will have Inner Shadow, Color Overlay, Outer Glow And Drop Shadow "Actually it is not a black shadow it is a bottom glow"
The 2nd bottom layer will have Inner Glow "from the center" and also Outer Glow "for the glowing effect"
The 3rd bottom layer will have another smaller Inner Glow with a softer color to give us more color smoothing, and also another Outer Glow
For the 4rth bottom layer we will add a little Bevel & Emboss to give us a better glowing edges
These values are tested for hours to give you the best neon effect. you can play with them after finishing the tutorial for further understanding
Now, for the 1st layer, we will add another Bevel & Emboss to give us a 3d like effect for our neon
Here is a simple fixing for the neon, it is simply structured from 2 nails and rectangle with a pattern overlay
Now, we will duplicate it with CTRL+J several times and distribute them all over the neon
Let's speed things up
Now, we will create a simple neon wires
You can check the action commands for further details
It's simply consisting of a brush stroke over a path that we'll create, and that stroke will take some Layer Styles to look like a real wire
Now, pick up the Pen Tool and make sure that it is drawing a Path not a Shape, then, after drawing you path, go and run the action
It's a shape. Undo and change to Path
ALT + Left-click to remove the second handle
Now, run the action from Actions Panel
Let's Create another wire
First, Add a Brightness & Contrast
Second, Add Vibrance and Saturation
Add Color Balance.. It's very important!, Why? you will see next
NOTE: the wall also took a soft blue color
Now, add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer at the very bottom, and start changing the Hue slider
Wow, that's great
NOTE: the wall color changes a little with changing Hue. That's why we added a Color Balance before
Group those layers and rename the Hue/Sat to "Change Neon Color"
Also, you can take a Smart Layer duplicate outside the "Neon Text" Group to make it reachable for the user that will use your PSD Mockup
Let's test our mockup
1- Double Click the Layer Thumbnail 2- Change The text & Save 3- Create the Wires & Distribute the fixings
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