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How to Create glowing line effects in Photoshop

Mar 17, 2010 09:20 AM
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This is really cool, you can make these awesome neon glowing lines using your Adobe Photoshop. This is a fun way to make creative and colorful designs and it looks really neat without spending time working on detailed shapes.

1. Start with a new 400x400 pixel black background. 2. Go to the pencil tool and change your primary color to white. (hit x) 3. Draw 3 straight vertical lines. hold the Shift key to make the lines straight. 4. Go to Filter > Distort > Wave. use the default settings. 5. Duplicate the layer 4 times and set the blending mode for each to lighten. 6. Repeat the Filter > Distort > Wave one time for each layer. Then merge all the layers. 7. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (radius: 3.0 pixels). Then go to Edit > Fade Gaussian Blur. (set the blending mode to screen)Repeat this step two more times. It should end up looking like this. 8. Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation make sure you check the "colorize" box (205/100/0). 9. Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates, click the "polar to rectangular" and hit OK

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