Beautify fonts with Photoshop flare

Authoring Tool: Photoshop 7

1. Open Photoshop, select "File" →new (New) in the menu bar, build a new file with a width of 200 pixels, high 200 pixels, RGB mode, white content.

2. Then set the foreground color on the toolbar to black, and press the "Alt+delete" key combination on the newly created picture to fill the "background" with black.

3. In the character function panel, adjust the settings, the font is: Arial black; font size: 150pt, select Bold.

4. Enter a text "a" on the newly added background. Because the background is black, this time should not see "A", but it does not matter, then press the Layer Palette "Add layer Style", and then select "Outer Glow (External glow)."

5. In the pop-up dialog box, adjust the settings to mixed mode: normal; opacity: 100%; noise: 0%; color adjustment is: r=42, g=255, b=0; expansion: 16%; Size: 33 pixels.

6. Press and hold the left mouse button and then drag "a layer" to the Layer function panel below the "Create a new Layer" button, so you can copy a layer to "a copy" (see Figure 1).


Fig. 1 Luminous "A"

7. On the Layer Control Panel, double-click Outer Glow on the a copy layer to adjust the settings in the dialog box. In the pop-up dialog box, the color adjustment is: r=255, g=240, b=0; extended: 14%; Size: 27 pixels.
8. In the same way, use the mouse to hold down the left button and then drag "a layer" to the Layer function panel below the "Create a new Layer" button, so you can copy the "a copy (a)" layer to "a copy2 (a copy 2)".

9. On the Layer Control Panel, double-click Outer Glow (External glow) on the "a copy 2" layer to adjust the settings in the dialog box. In the pop-up dialog box, the color is adjusted to: r=255, g=255, b=255, extension: 10%; Size: 9 pixels.

10. Hold down the "ALT" key and click the "Create New Layer" button on the Layer function panel to create a new layer with the left mouse button. In the pop-up dialog box, adjust the setting mode: Soft Light (Soft Light), opacity: 100%, and check "Fill soft light neutral color (50% gray)."

11. On the work bar, select "Filter (Filter) →sketch (sketch) →halftone pattern (halftone patterns)". In the pop-up dialog box to adjust the size: 1, Contrast: 3, Pattern Type: line, press the "OK" button to complete the operation, the final effect as shown in Figure 2.


Fig. 2 "A" of the halo effect


Comment: In fact this operation process is not too complicated, the key steps are repeated the same. Using Photoshop filters is an important part of this example. Highlight the color effects of several layers of a picture by repeatedly duplicating the layer and then adjusting the RGB value of the outer glow color. Second, it looks as if a font is contained in several colors outside, and several colors reinforce each other. The background of the black makes the effect of the font as if the glow, so that the dynamic enhanced a lot.

Through this example, you can learn to use the layers, color changes to modify, preferably a dynamic and powerful image merge.