Advanced Glow Effects

In this tutorial, we're going to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you'll pick up some tips you didn't know before.

Author: Collis

Hello! I started Psdtuts+ because years ago reading Photoshop tutorials was how I got into design. You can find me on Twitter or on my blog theNetsetter.

Step 1:

As with pretty much every tutorial I've ever written, we begin with a radial gradient. This one is pretty harsh and goes from a reddish brown color to black. Here are the exact color codes:

Foreground color - #922f00
Background color - #000000

Step 2:

In this tutorial, we actually need a pretty intense center, so what we'll do is duplicate the layer we just made and set the one above to a blending mode of Color Dodge. There are a few types of blending modes, darkening ones, lightening ones, colorizing ones and inverting ones. Color Dodge is probably the strongest of the lightening ones. As you can see in the screenshot, it produces a pretty full-on center.

Step 3:

Now in our glow effect, it helps to have a nice textured background. So we are going to create a sort of smoky haze. To do this, create a new layer, then make sure you have white, #ffffff, and black, #000000, selected as your background and foreground colors.

Then go to Filter > Render > Clouds. This will give you the same random cloud pattern as above.

Step 4:

Now set the opacity of your layer to Overlay and 30% transparency. In some instances this would be enough, but for our needs we want it even smokier looking!

So go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome and use default settings of 4 and 7 for detail and smoothness respectively. Actually you can probably mess around with those if you want, but the defaults seem to be fine.

When you're done, the result should look a lot smokier (once its overlayed at 30% transparency that is). You can see the result in the background of the next screenshot.

Step 5:

Now before we can start making glows, we need to have something to glow. Here's where we break out the pen tool. If you have used the pen tool much I suggest playing around with it a little. There are some tricky things you can do with shortcuts, but for this tutorial you don't need those.

In fact all we want to achieve are some nice curves. Fortunately this isn't too hard. I find the trick is not to use too many points. Instead rely on the Pen Tool's natural curving and drag the mouse out for each point so you get a big angle. In this S-curve shown above, I've only used three points, the starting point, the end point and one in between to give it the bend.

Step 6:

Once you have a nice curve, create a new layer. Then click on the Paintbrush Tool (B) and choose a very thin, hard brush. As you know, soft brushes are the blurry ones and hard brushes are more solid. In this case I suggest using a thickness of 3.

Note that you can have any color selected as your brush color because we'll go over it with a layer style shortly.

Step 7:

Now switch back to the Pen Tool. You must switch tools in order to do this next bit.

Then right-click and select Stroke Path. A little dialog box will appear as in the screenshot. Choose Brush and make sure there is a tick next to Simulate Pressure. This is important as it will give your curve tapered ends which will make it rock!

Next right click again and select Delete Path.

Step 8:

You should now have something like the above. Just a thin, cool swishy thing.

Step 9:

Now we add some glows. The easiest way to make our glows is to use layer styles. And the best way to tell you what layer styles to use is to tell you to download the sample Photoshop PSD from the bottom of this page and then open it up and look through them there.

In a nutshell, I've added two sets of glows. To do this I first use Outer Glow and then because I want a second glow, I change the Drop Shadow settings so that it becomes a glow (you can do this by reducing the Distance and changing the blend mode to something like Color Dodge)

Oh and also I've used a Color Overlay to make the item white so that its like the center of an intense glow.

Step 10:

So now you have the same line but with a cool glow coming off it. The beauty of using a layer style is that you can copy and paste it to other layers. To do this you just right-click the layer and select Copy Layer Style then create a new layer and right-click and choose Paste Layer Style.

Step 11:

So now repeat the same process a couple of times to make more squiggly lines.

In this instance, I made one a little thicker by changing the paint brush size before I did the Stroke Path bit of the process. I also made a third line and erased part of it and sorta made it join the other two to look like a cool triangular shape.

Step 12:

Here I've added some text in and applied the same layer style to the text layers.

It's important to pay lots of care and attention to your text. When you're first starting out, use simple fonts and play with spacing between letters, words and sizes. You can achieve a lot with just some small tricks. Here I've contrasted the three words by making Glow a lot larger and in regular casing, then made Advanced and FX much smaller, with greater space between the letters and all caps.

You can control spacing with text using the Character window. If it isn't already open go to Window > Character and it should appear. Mess about with the different settings until you learn what each controls.

Step 13:

Now we add some particles. To do this, create a new layer then select a tiny paint brush - size 3 - and just paint some dots on. It helps if they are clustered towards the center of the glow so that it looks like they are emanating from there.

You can make some of the central ones larger by doubling over on them with a second paint brush dab.

Then paste our Glow layer style on to that layer too!

Step 14:

Now that's looking pretty cool, but it will look even cooler if we give it some subtle coloring instead of this super gaudy red.

So create a new layer, and using a radial gradient, draw a blue to white gradient as shown.

Step 15:

Then set that layer to a blending mode of Color and change the opacity to 50%.

You'll see that it turns the image kind of bluish. I think that's looking much cooler already, but just to go that extra step I also created a couple of extra layers, one with some faint yellow and one with faint purple. You can see them in the screenshot above.

I set each layer to blending mode of Color and thin opacities so that they all fade together.

Step 16:

And there you have it: advanced glow effects with a cool color blend and subtle smoky background combined make for a pretty great effect.

Just remember to experiment with settings and try applying the glow to different things to see how it turns out. And try different color combinations, some surprising combinations turn out really beautiful. Good luck!

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dSung September 15th

Love it!
Thanks so much for sharing, mate.
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1. k March 27th
  
  ==”how to do that?
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2. Samson Paul July 1st
  
  I had gone through your tutorials. It was fantastic I have no words to describe it.Thanks very much for this tutorials page.I think people who cannot afford to to join classes can do so in this tutorial.
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3. S November 5th
  
  The effect is very nice however I have some issues, It would be helpful if you included more specific information with some steps. For example, there is no mention of the new document size and text size which can have a huge impact upon the outcome.
  I found that i spent most of my time trying to guess the appropriate document size settings so that the effects would work correctly for me.
  Also there is no mention of what to do if “stroke path” isnt available on the right click menu.
  I can follow all the steps you provided but I found that the information that wasn’t provided made this too hit and miss for me.
  I couldn’t get the effect to turn out as it looks in your tutorial and I followed every step exactly.
  I’m dissappointed because this would otherwise be an excellent tutorial and effect but there’s just too many assumptions made by the tutor.
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  1. BJM November 13th
    
    Hi S,
    Try Control Click to bring up ‘Stroke Path’. That should help.
noonnoo September 15th

Very cool! Real pro tutorials!
Thanks!
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Kyle September 15th

Wonderful tutorial. Good to see the site back up and running! Cheers!
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Joefrey Mahusay September 15th

I’ve never seen before like as great as this tutorial, only seen it in psdtuts.com, they makes great tutorial like this. I’ve always visit this site since they started.
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge! Two thumbs up!
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Bstone September 15th

Wow. I’ve been looking for this.
Thank you very much.
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Zaigham September 16th

Excellent tutorial!
Simple and straight forward
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Ted September 16th

Looks Sweet!
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Denzen September 16th

Wow, the result is very nice and it’s very well explained ! Thanks, mate !
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Collis September 16th

Yay, glad you guys liked it! Glows are so cool
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1. hisam June 24th
  
  why i cant select Stroke Path in step 7
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Carlos September 16th

Great Site!!! Although I was wondering how do u get that faded effect at the end of each “glowing streak”? I cant seem to get it to taper even with with the simulate pressure icon clicked. But amazing tuts.
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SigChat September 16th

That’s a really nice effect, overused in the web design industry, but really nice still.
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Feanne September 16th

So awesome. Thank you!
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Jonathan Solichin September 16th

Amazing! What an original. Thanks!
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scott September 16th

Love this!
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Dennis Plucinik September 16th

You guys are killing with these tutorials. Congrats.
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Kev September 16th

Great Site!!! Although I was wondering how do u get that faded effect at the end of each â€œglowing streakâ€?
Click the option to apply pressure.
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Chris Coyier September 16th

Super nice. Ahh the beauty of “simulate pressure”
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mmmark September 16th

FYI, you mistakenly replaced the psd file in the chrome tutorial with the psd for this glow one…
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panther September 16th

Very impressive! Great work, thanks for sharing.
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Johnie September 16th

Wow!!!
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Conexion September 16th

The overall effect, very nice. Very simple and effective. Though I wouldn’t say it is “Hard” to figure out how to do this effect, it is a very well presented tutorial and should help many people who are in the earlier stages of the learning process. The only part I strongly dislike is that background I can’t stand the tacky chrome filter. Nice work though
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Dana September 16th

I can’t get the “Simulate Pressure” bit to work either.
Great tutorial though.
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1. Jeremy August 4th
  
  You need to turn on brush dynamics and set pen pressure to be set to “pen tilt”
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Dan Peterson September 16th

Very nice, thanks a lot for all the tutorials. Just found the site and it’s already inspired me with quite a few different ways to implement some of these techniques!
Great job and thanks again!
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Edwin September 16th

Very cool tutorial! I’m definitely going to bookmark this website and come back for more.
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Jymster September 16th

Excellent tutorial !! Thanks for sharing!
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Davis September 16th

This tutorial is absolutely amazing! It was so easy and clear and my final results were just like the example! Thank you so much!
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fuqaha September 16th

Sweeett !! Learned a couple of new tricks in this tutorial alone!
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Free Nature Photography Wallpaper September 16th

that is amazing!! I need to try that out stat!!
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Jennifer Apple September 16th

Nice work!
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replacement parts September 16th

cool tutorial thanks…
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xpantz September 16th

Excellent tutorial… thanks.
for those who can’t get the tapered strokes…. you need to go to your brushes “window>brushes” and turn on “shape dynamics”
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Gnelfelf September 16th

In order to get the tapered ends with the Simulate Pressure you have to make sure that shape dynamics is turned on and then you set control to “Pen Pressure”.
At least that helped with me in CS3
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SoleAngelus September 16th

Yeah thanks GNELFELF, that helped me too, i set the minimum brush width to 1% to, so it would work properly
Excellent tut, and nice results
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sachin kaushik September 17th

best effect your are good.
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General Zod September 17th

Excellent tutorial, I have been looking to do something like this for years and have never come across anything as good as this, thanks loads.
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eso September 17th

hmm…….. i cant get stroke path to work at all…… having trouble with pen tool…….hmm
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Juan G. Calderon Perez September 17th

Thanks for the excellent tutorials i was looking for something like this!
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Mark C September 17th

I like the web design integration add ins
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July September 17th

simple and useful – very nice looking glow dudes
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Alex September 17th

why are everyone of your tutorials so amazing? everyone is so great and useful
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Blackhawk1793 September 17th

That is a very nice tut, i love it soo much!!!!!
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Mark September 17th

Nice! I can definatly use this tutorial..
Thnx!
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BHdrummer September 17th

I can’t get the “stroke path” clickable…..help?
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Chris September 17th

what if the “stroke path” isn’t clickable…I can’t figure out how to fix that
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nkhat September 17th

wow realy fantactic tutorial
thank you dear
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Talmo September 17th

To get the stroke path to be clickable you have to select Paths as the type of path you’re creating. To do this simply click the middle icon in the first set of pen options from the pen toolbar. The pen toolbar can be found at the top of your screen, just below the menubar. Make sure to have selected the Pen tool first or you will not see the correct toolbar. Hope this helps!
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1. Jessi Miller November 24th
  
  Thank you!!! I was having a terrible time figuring out why I couldn’t get Stroke Path to be an active choice.
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Ramon Bispo September 17th

Beautiful!!!
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Sam September 17th

Really nice
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Rashid September 17th

Best tutorial yet! Good job. Keep up the good work.
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GOL September 17th

Nice to start with the design… UP UP
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Cyberfunk September 17th

Any chance of anyone explaining to me how to do this with the GIMP ? I can’t get past the chrome part of the tutorial… no idea how to do that w/ the GIMP ?
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Ray September 17th

Hey, awesome tutorial! I was just wondering what font did you use for the words?
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Collis September 17th

Hey Ray, I’m not sure but if you download the PSD you should be able to get it out of there
@Everyone: Thanks for the support, sorry for the couple of people who had trouble following some of the instructions, I’m on CS2 still (I know I know) so some of my tools are a bit different maybe? In any case thanks for helping each other out!
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Waqas September 17th

Wow, you ROCK man….
That was cool, i liked it :>
Thanks for sharing
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nimbus September 17th

You should add a “Donate” button on your site bro. I’m loving it, and you deserve the funds.
Thanks a ton.
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Huy Nguyen September 17th

exactly what I need! thanks so much
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Nisa September 17th

Its very nice n useful .. please provide more n more for student help.
thanks
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veerendra September 17th

lovely work !
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binocle September 17th

So it’s your fault if we see this kind of things everywhere these days? ^__^
Thanks for the clear and easy tut
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mert September 17th

great work. awesomee
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Joseph Johnston September 17th

There’s one thing I would add for people who’ve not used the pen tool too much, to make sure the pen tool is in paths mode, not shape layers mode.
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xdreamer September 17th

i didn’t like the last couple steps , but it still a fine work.
thanks for sharing
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Spage September 18th

Here is what I made. Awesome tutorial.
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=glowme9.jpg
But some kind of s*** i the middle, going to correct it.
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Navdeep September 18th

lovely tut
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Danny September 18th

Well done.
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C.C. September 18th

Yeah, this tutorial kicks ass. You know how to create a beautiful tutorial. it was nice and easy
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jimrb22 September 18th

Thanks for sharing. Great tut.
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PiticStyle September 18th

Great tutorials! Congrats`
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kivo September 18th

very easy to use tutorial. THANKS!! look forward to using this on my next project. ill send you samples when im done!
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Jennifer Lee September 18th

whoa! Awesome stuff! I totally have to try this out!! Thanks for the awesome tutorial! >__
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Sabbir September 18th

no mre to say than this
“marvelous”
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Ali September 18th

thank you! awesome tutorial.. this is what a pro designer needs to know!
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Ali September 18th

actually it was hard at the first to believe you could do this without using any special filter! well done
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Khurram Mumtaz September 18th

Great work dude
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mark rushworth September 18th

cant stroke path in CS2 it dunt appear in the context box!
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yea September 18th

Nice tutorial. but how I can select the Thin to set it on Blending Options? when I go on Bleding Options I automatic Select the whole background
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tewoos September 18th

really great tutorial, thanks for sharing…
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brandy September 18th

“Step 4:
Now set the opacity of your layer to “Overlay”…”
this should say “blending mode”, not “opacity”, but that’s a small error.
i appreciate that you provide a bit of thought behind what you are doing, rather than just telling the exact steps. you could do more of this, though… also, it might be useful to some to know exactly what the blending effects are doing. (i.e., what exactly is color dodge doing? not everyone knows these things.)
i think people like it here because it is clean and simple to understand; you’ve definitely started out well!
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mary Martin September 18th

This is awesome! I have done things similar, but not this easy. Thanks so much for all the pointers. They will help me so much.
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Daniel September 19th

nice!
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Hellgrace September 19th

Awesome tutorial,and a marvelous effect
well done
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alberto rodriguez September 19th

Loved it, thank you very much
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gus September 19th

Simulate pressure? Never heard of it before, thanks!
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Website Design September 19th

It’s beautiful Great work.
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ader10 September 19th

For the guy who asked about GIMP…
Duplicate your “clouds” layer
Colors > Curves
Make a sine graph with the preview on and you’ll figure out what to do from there
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Juan Carlos September 19th

wow! Thank You!
See You!:) Saludillos!
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fernando September 19th

Nice work thakÂ´s for this tip, this tutorial was very cool
XD
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Photoshop Tutorials September 19th

Wow such an awesome tutorial. Thanks a lot for sharing this excellent tutorial.
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Dean September 19th

Thats very cool. You can turn this into a poster.
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ANYONE INTERESTED IN ANIMATING THIS September 19th

Check out http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e.html
It’s After Effects, and this guy was so far ahead of his time. We used this at Fox6 XETV and it got us an emmy.
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G. Eren September 19th

your tutorials really nice.. congratulations..
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Marc September 19th

WOHAA…
What can I say?
Fab, this is just fab!
Many thanks,
and keep up the good work!
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Dennis September 19th

Nice tutorial – thanks alot. This seems to be a very nice tutorial site.
Thanks alot for sharing.
Regards
Dennis
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Jenny September 20th

That’s very cool
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Alex September 20th

this tutorial changed my life
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Toad064 September 20th

Truely one of the greatest tuts I’ve seen.
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aNGEL September 20th

amazing.. thanks for this tut
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Markow September 20th

Very nice tutorial, pretty much easy to do, even if you dont have a lot experience with Photoshop…
With the help of the comments here I managed to solve the path-making-problems… Hehe
Thanks very much!
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tree September 20th

This has to be the best tutorial I have ever seen. I am so glad I did not go to sleep and miss seeing it!
This is so worth failing my exam tomorrow for.
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dhrumin jariwala September 20th

that’s gr8…….. keep it up!!!
thanks buddy….
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nalu September 20th

uwah…. beautifful , I’m so happy now! At last I found this tutorial .
thank you so much =D
I’ll practise this soon to make wallpaper, Mr. Collis
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Miguel September 20th

Man this is great work i have been trying to learn how to do this kind of things for a while now and never found a tutorial as clear and precise not to mention easy to follow, great website!
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Elvie September 20th

mark rushworth:
im using CS2 also. you have to select Paths AFTER you select PEN TOOL. the button is at the bar on top (by default) below the “File, Edit, Image,…” bar. a icon of a pen inside a box.
hope that you’ll find that.
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ciaran September 21st

for those who couldnt get the tappered edges to work, make sure the brusgh hardness is set to 0% and the same for all the settings in brush dynamics. This worked for me and I had spent ages trying to get it working.
thanks for the tutorial!!!
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Alex September 21st

yep, i’ve also created me a new wallpaper.. you deserve a million bucks
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Aaron September 21st

I am having an issue with step #7. When I select the Pen Tool and right-click, my option for the “stroke path” is grayed out not letting me select it.
What could be the problem?
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DP September 21st

Wow, man… that is truly a sweet tutorial… Best I’ve seen in a looonnnnng time. Thanks for the awesome addition to the arsenal !
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luu September 21st

where can i download the sample?
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liza September 21st

thanks for the tutorial, its excellent!
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VIKAS September 21st

wonderfull nothing else
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zee7 September 21st

Great Tutorial i got lot of thing from this one thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thank you very much.
Waiting For more goOOd work from you!.
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Cara September 21st

This is a great tutorial. Although when I wen to add my last few layers (for the added color) it made everything really dull and my “glowing” items kind of just faded out…….I must have done something wrong.
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Cara September 21st

Oh and here is what I came out with………..It’s not as eye catching as the finished product in the tutorial……..I need to figure out how to make my glow even brighter

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Emily September 22nd

In step 7, when I try to get the stroke path, the option is greyed out. Any ideas why?
I’d really love to finish this tutorial, but I am frustrated and stuck on this point =/
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samith chathuranga fernando September 22nd

“excelant”
i was waiting to get like this tutorial
thanks somuch
vary cool and wonderful
so can go ahead with this ladder.
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Soumya September 22nd

Amazing tutorial! Superb tips! Keep it up! This is very very helpful!
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Bird September 22nd

thanks man, i will use this in some of my sigs
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brego September 22nd

thank you my friend… it really looks nice
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Mahado September 22nd

thank you so much! it’s a great tutorial…
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Billy September 22nd

Finally, I’ve been looking for a tutorial for this. Really nice!!! thanks!
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kbp September 22nd

goood tuut very goood!
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Shikha September 22nd

Great tutorial. Simple and very well explained.
thank you!!
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Shikha September 22nd

i am so glad i found this site!!!
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Ricky September 23rd

i really really like this one
its the best outta all of them
this site is the best ever!
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WeEvoleved September 23rd

Thx That was a nice and easy creation very good
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hvdesigns September 23rd

thats a real nice effect matey, top work
I LOVE IT
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tammy September 24th

how do you add pen pressure?
Its not even there D:
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Nirwana September 24th

Really appreciate sharing this kind of experience.
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draxter September 25th

Wow, this is what i waiting for.
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saravana September 25th

really fantastic job
this is what im really looking for
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Rathan September 25th

To those who are having trouble with the Stroke Path being grayed out, I have run into the same trouble and figured it out.
It could be you are forgetting to add the new layer when choosing your brush size and color. This is imperative. You must have this new layer still selected when going back to the pen tool.
If somehow you end up with the Work Path on its own layer, then you must right click that layer and Rasterize it. Then simply right click on your image with the pen tool and Stroke Path.
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skipjack September 25th

nice tutorial,
two thumbs up,
keep up the good works!
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victor September 25th

An exposicion very clean!!!
Thankyou!!!
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Andrew September 25th

Really nice tutorial.. crazy about the result!
But i think the link for downloading the sample PSD is broken or the site is down.
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Andrew September 25th

naah, sry.. it’s working
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HELP! September 26th

Where i can find “color dodge” ??? i dont find color dodge at bleding options…
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Ymikaeru September 26th

Very Cool, Thankz very much!
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Tina Frissora September 26th

Very nice glow effect – and fun to mess around with!
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hoppasaurus September 26th

Two words: sah-weet.
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Jemi September 26th

WOW.. its really glowing.
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marco September 26th

very nice !!! Just loved this top work.
congratulations.
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nekkidtruth September 26th

Gorgeous tutorial. I’ve been learning Photoshop through tutorials since approximately 1999. Your tutorials are vibrant and easy to understand. Your tutorials alone are digital art at it’s finest. I look forward to plenty more.
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Lauren September 26th

Absolutely stunning. Such is the master of Photoshop … *sighs*
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Piotreck September 26th

Hi,
What have you used to draw a gradient in step 14? Brush tool? Gradient tool? Sorry for a silly question but I cant figure it out : )
Salut!
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Matthew Thomas September 26th

Great tutorial, but i cant get the part when we swap from the brush to pen tool, and *stimulate brush*
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Sokobanja September 27th

Great tutorial, thank.
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abaddon September 27th

Briliant!!! thanks for sharing….
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Rafael September 27th

I am not obtaining to use ’simulate pressure’o que is happening? they help me
view: http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7172/pressuredt9.jpg
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Ahmad September 27th

Absolutely stunning. Such is the master of Photoshop â€¦
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anarap814 September 27th

heY!!!! guys… nice move!!heheh by the way thank for sharing…
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guru September 27th

this is very cool Tutorial.
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daonejau September 28th

i am having trouble on step7 i do not have the option to storke path when i right click the stroke path option is greyed otu
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fell_away September 28th

This is a great tutorial! Keep up the excellent work, love the site.
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i need help
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Afterdeth September 28th

It won’t let me click the stroke path button in the pen tool right click menu for step #7!
What am I doing wrong??
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leo September 28th

hmm… can someone make a video tutorial? i’m lost making the gradient background…
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lance September 28th

Amazing! the result is very nice….it reminds me of an outer space effects I made before….
Keep it up!
RJ
http://www.lancecorner.com
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Asim Qureshi September 29th

Awesome
but i have problem in stroke path.
do u have a video of this tutorial?
thanx
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Dave September 29th

excellent site.
it might even be cool if you could put some examples that peope have done after learning from this tutorial. it would really inspire me to see some of the readers’s work.
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b September 29th

that is awesome! thanks for the tutorial!
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Michal Herman September 29th

Hi, please help me! I just love your tuts, maybe not because i can use them in my photography, but i can much better know and understand photoshop. Ive written i need help, because sometimes when i put some darkening curves to my pictures the gradient is not smooth if you know what i mean.. do you know what it may be? and what is more important – how to change it? i tried some things, like bluring etc, but it never got right. Please help me. I can send example if you want, or if you didnt undestand what i meant. sorry for my english.
best regards Mike
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Singetak September 29th

This a very lucrative tutorial.Thanks alot
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ROFLCOPTER September 30th

That was gud. tyvm dood.
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Danny September 30th

Awesome tut, thanks a bunch
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andyworld September 30th

really useful,thank you for sharing with us!
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gimp September 30th

nice work man!
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Gabriel September 30th

great tutorial.
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PARPOLE October 1st

DAMN BEST TUTORIAL SO FAR… VERY COMPLEX
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i need help October 1st

at step 4, the chrome button is not selectable, any help?
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1. i'll help you:D November 6th
  
  you have to go to go to the filter gallery thingy and then you’ll have a list of options. select sketch and find chrome from there
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a little help October 2nd

the glow doesnt look really nice on mines i tried a few but i was wondering if you could five exact steps… and the last few steps of the gradient, it turns the letter (S) into grayscale
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eyeinthesky43 October 2nd

Does anyone know where I can download the font used in this tutorial? I downloaded the psd and the font is called: GeometricSlab712BT LightA but I have looked everywhere online and can’t find it to download.
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1. Qurrat November 6th
  
  Maybe I am too late to respond but here you can get all the fonts from this family:
  http://www.abstractfonts.com/search/geometricslab%20712%20bt%20lighta
  You might have to buy though..
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vipinck October 2nd

very very useful and beautiful tutorials, thanks
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darki777 October 2nd

Damn, really hot tutorial, love it man
Greetings, darki
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hamza October 3rd

awesome tutorial i love it
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vijaya October 3rd

superbbbbbbbbb tutorial, thanks a tonnn, with some simple steps u created such a wonderful effect.
simply mindblowing!!!!!!!!!
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jayhan October 3rd

Just try this tutorial and it turns out sweet!
Thanks for sharing!
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stev October 4th

how did it glow in step 9..??
i think u didnt put others layer style options..
i was lost doing this effects..
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jayhan October 4th

to stev
just, tick the outer glow and drop shadow, change to bright color and make it “Color Dodge” blend mode will do the trick
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Tommy Lee October 4th

so im at the stroke path part step 7 i think but none of the opitions are able to be clicked on
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Tommy Lee October 4th

ahh nvn i just needed to change it to path sry im pretty new to photoshop but im geting decent for teaching my self most of what i know
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Matt Gillott October 5th

woah dude that was awesome!! love the outcome man!!! post more tuts
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ieda October 5th

so great..i never know about this before..just know the simple step…thanks for share this toturial..
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Mesfer Alzhrani October 5th

great tut. thanks
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solon October 5th

i like the tutorial men realy its works to me im noob so thanks men
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Mrunal Bhongale October 5th

Just Sahi…..Please share some more ideas like this.
We need it
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Chike Loney October 5th

great tut man!! you really said SPOONFED tuts! lol
cheers mate
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Dejan Dimovski October 5th

nice tut
i try this tutorial but i put INVERT
its better (for me)
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Rooom606 October 5th

Thanks very much for this tutorial. Really rocks!
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Me October 7th

VERY COOL! Thanks a lot love it, specially det dots hehe. You can make them over the text too, like it’s blowing away like smoke… If you understand me hehe xb
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colourels October 8th

Brilliant ! ur tutorial lit up my day !
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A Guy October 8th

Nice tut. Looks great!
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Erik October 8th

Great! Very nice tut. Worth a coffee
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Boris October 8th

Wow Briliant.
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Whitey October 9th

NICE! Ill try it out m8!
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Caitlin October 9th

I have to say that this is one of the best tutorials out there. It’s so good I got you on Stumble Upon, Blink and Del.icio.us.
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Left Behind October 9th

Pretty flippin’ shweet.
Easy to follow, very nice technique.

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Stan Hurst October 9th

Excellennt stuff keeps me riveted
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sulligadu October 9th

not bad.
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chris October 9th

Simply great, It really rocks! Thanks for sharing
- chris
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Web designing October 9th

Good tutorial..I was looking for something like this
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master chief October 10th

increÃble! es marvioso verdad? this is the sickest stuff iv ever seen. i used this in my business project 4 the logo…thank God 4 the omniscient genius who created this…is intellect rivals that of jimmy neutron…
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tobi October 10th

Thanks for this excellent tut !
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Shay October 11th

I got that all done, and then couldn’t save it! I guess I’ll just have to do it again. Great tutorial!!
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hadi October 11th

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!
E X C L L E N T !!!!!!
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SoulSmasher October 11th

one of the best tuts ive ever seen!
thanks
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Alex October 12th

Another great tutorial, I did that one with the same picture but now the real challenge is applying some effects like that on my own pics
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LP October 12th

demonios, es perfecto. El mejor tuto q he visto!!
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BeEzY October 12th

i dont know how to do stroke path
it is always shaded in gray and it dont work
can anyone help
im using photoshop cs3
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BeEzY October 12th

help
i cant click on stroke path
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Lau @ Digital Photography Tutorials October 12th

Incredible tutorial. I had no idea how easy and fast could this be done.
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Jonathan Lampron October 12th

Great tutorial. Here’s my attempt: http://flickr.com/photos/jonathanlampron/1474681622/
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Can October 12th

i have been searching for a tutorial like this for ages, and finally found it.. but i have a problem with step 7. everything is fine except for both curve tapered ends and low-opacity looking.. i can handle it with decreasing the opacity, but i couldn’t find a proper solution for the curve tapered ends.. can someone please explain me what can cause this? thanks
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Can October 12th

To BeEzY:
after you selected your brush type and draw the line, you have to right click on the line which will open you the menu you can make stroke path.. i hope this will help you good luck to you with step 7, which drive me crazy with a different problem…
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JEns October 13th

Great tutorials! keep up the good work!
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Parithosh October 13th

Lovely tutorial mate,this site’s bookmarked
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Mark October 14th

I was looking for exactly THIS tutorial. It’s great, it’s easy, efect is sweet. Lots of ideas come to me with stuff I’ve learned here! Thanks so much!
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Neeraj Gola October 15th

its cool but i don`t know where is the crome effect has gone.
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joseph S October 16th

Very nice and strait forward…good stuff..and very informative….thank you so much. Now I can apply some of these techniques to my own work.
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Alli` October 16th

okay, I’ve gone BACK in and started over from the beginning and I STILL can’t get it!
I’ve tried EVERYTHING…and I know you’re shaking your head thinking I haven’t but I have….
You need to not blab on about how much fun the pen tool is and really clarify each step a bit better.
This WOULD be an amazing tutorial if it had worked.
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curier October 17th

wow, amazing … great job guys
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Jay October 18th

I can’t get the lines to glow after I’ve deleted the path. They look like normal… any help?
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Lucbach October 18th

Respect! Beautiful and amazing…
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linyu October 19th

Very good ! éžå¸¸å¥½!
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duh October 19th

use adobe help it tells you everything about stroke paths
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KAMAL KRISHNA October 19th

Wow…… Wonderful
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Marco October 19th

Great tutorial indeed! Keep on posting stuff like this.
Also, maybe you shouldn’t post your .PSD file with it, some don’t follow the tutorial but will use the .PSD.
Example:
http://www.styleignite.com/
The “Advanced Glow” is on the right, EXACTLY the same as yours but with their text.
Kind of charming though: They really like it, just like me!
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jmreyes October 19th

Can someone please let me know the brush settings used?
I cant seem to get the nice curves and faded ends.
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jmatt October 20th

wow! i like these tutorials! great! great! great!
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Syed October 20th

Excellent tutorial. I would run out of words to express the beauty and simplicity of this tutorial. Stunning results, very clear instructions and minimal effort taken to get these real pro results.
Keep up the good work, you deserve more than what all of us have said so far.
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Eli October 20th

Found a cheap knockoff of your tutorial, Collis:
http://photoshopfrenzy.com/?p=76
They submitted it to Good-Tutorials, but I rated it as Terrible/0 so I don’t think it will make it to the front page.
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Mao October 21st

wow garcias por este tutorial me servira de mucho en mi vida laboral, un saludo desde colombia
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Julio AcuÃ±a R. October 21st

I am really lost later steps 6 and 7……………….the “stroke path” it is not lighted ! on my PSC3…..I can not to use this tool………………..HELP ME PLEASE !!!!
Also I try with PS7………and I can not.

Julio.
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powrslave October 22nd

Cool!
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6913/powrslaveavr247kk1.th.jpg
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manish October 22nd

very good
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Robert October 22nd

Great Tutorial! I didn’t know about the Simulate Pressure feature.. Thanks for sharing it. It is Supe cool…
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Vance October 23rd

This is great and all…buuuuuut one problem.
I’m trying to get the stroke to work, and all it’s doing is making the blunt ends. I mean to say that it’s not tapering at all. So uh, yeah….help??!
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Damien October 24th

Wooahhhh thanks for the PEN to BRUSH effect ! It really helps me since I’m looking for this effet for a while ! Now I’ll be able to do those beloved Abstract wallpaper ! YEEEPEEE ! ! !
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Vance October 24th

Ok, fixed it
Another question though.
How did yuo get that lovely text of yours to kind of mesh with the rest of the lines? i noticed that on my version of this thingy, it didn’t let me do that. I’ve tried a couple things, but anything that would help me out is greatly appreciated. Tanks
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virtualvinay October 24th

Thats cool dude,
Thanks for sharing this awesome tutorial. I was like searching for this kind of tutorial for months.
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Adrianoff October 25th

Amazing!!!
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James Armstrong October 26th

Amazingly good tutorial.
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Foxinni October 26th

Very Cool!
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jason October 27th

i was just stumbling around the internet and found this:
http://online.sccnn.com/desk2/1161/jy_004.jpg
i don’t which came first but it’s pretty odd nonetheless.
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Sheryl October 27th

Love your tutorials! But I’m having trouble with this one. I’m sorry, but I can’t get past step 4. When I go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome, my sketch option is grayed out. Unless I have a bitmap image, I can’t get Sketch enabled. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong? TIA
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China8119 October 27th

wow~!!! very very nice!!!
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Mark October 27th

Nice tutorial! I was looking for these effects!
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Dung Nguyen October 28th

It’s so great, thanks so much
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KilloMaster October 29th

Here is what I made with it : http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4691/killoshinecopymo6.jpg
Nice job
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rayden October 30th

AWESOMEEEEEEEEEE.
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Erica October 31st

Woow, awesome effects and tutorial! Keep up the good work!
Â¤ KilloMaster; your Glow-effects are so cool!
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Christian October 31st

wow, excellent tutorial! thanks.
christian
from outback australia
wwww.6701.sunpixs.com
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mike luciani November 1st

great stuff. any reason why i cant access my filter gallery or the “sketch” option in the filter box? i have Ps CS2… weird!!
Thanks
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Ronit November 1st

nice tutorial. thanks
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pai November 2nd

amazing!
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cindy November 2nd

i’ve done your tutorial before and really enjoyed it. i tried to do the swish lines for another piece i’m working on but i’m not getting the same effect as i did before. any clue why that might be happening?
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Smumdax November 3rd

Liked the tutorial very mucho…. thanks for taking the time.
Here’s the result of following (almost!)… Kinda looks like some disney thing…
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/382/glowinlk0.jpg
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owen November 3rd

Wow! pretty cool!
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Lionrob November 3rd

Hi!
I’m Roberto, administrator of Tutorialing (italian forum about photoshop’s tutorials).
Compliments for this tutorial is awesome.
Well, Can I translate this tutorial in italian for my forum (link in nickname)?
Obviously the translation will contain link back to your site and your copyright!
It’ll a simple translation only.
I hope to receive a positive response
Have a nice day!
Roberto
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MPJM November 3rd

iâ€™ve done your tutorial before and really enjoyed it. i tried to do the swish lines for another piece iâ€™m working on but iâ€™m not getting the same effect as i did before. any clue why that might be happening?
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ahmed murtaza November 4th

badass… nice work man
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Nori November 4th

Filter effects are grayed out -> you might check your color mode and make sure to have it on RGB. Goto “Image” menu, then mode. When prompted to flatten all layers, click “don’t flatten.”
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LubomirG. November 5th

Very nice tutorial but i cant make the curve like you. It doesn`t have nice sharp edges.It looks like a simple curve.Can you tell me where is my mistake please write one e-mail.Thank you
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Cebido November 5th

Astig!….nice…..More!
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mamjed November 6th

When I did the strokes it wouldn’t taper for me. WHY????
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DiOn November 6th

Outstanding…………..!!!! Very Impressive…!!!
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jessica November 7th

awesome… thanks a lot
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LoRe November 8th

Good job!… thanks you =)
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Nazeem November 8th

wow what a good tutorial. i like it.
thanks for this tutorial,.
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FayeD November 8th

Thanks alot, I really like this.
I created a sig with the effect:
http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/8466/fayedfsig6ho9.png
Thanks again,
~FayeD
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Jouke November 9th

Nice effect, badly explained.
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Kukuh November 9th

Elegant, and glowwwwwing…………
love it ^~^
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Alaina Antone November 10th

this is so cool
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Stephanie November 10th

GREAT!!!!
thankx a lot!!!!
very nice tut….!!!!!

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Shahbaz November 11th

yh nice tutorial buh soz 2 b a noob buh how did u make on step 8 how to did u make it fade at de endz wen i stroke de path it comes out as a solid path and urz is much more of a fade plz reply
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rile November 11th

coolllllllll, keren abissssss
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aryu November 11th

arigatou gozaimashita!! .. Thx very much…
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brandon November 11th

i get stuck at step 7, i right click but the option “stroke path” is grey and i vant select it.
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Sean November 12th

Great tut, love the outcome !
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Icer Icer November 13th

Realy cool i had some problems with the pen but then i got it realy nice results it came out nice
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Joseph November 13th

Yeah i cant get the tails/fades on my lines at the end, it doesnt seem to work for me, help please?
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Jennifer November 13th

You made my night.
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Jennifer November 13th

My creation:
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1985/sweetqn3.png
Tweaked it a little. Thanks much!
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vladkij November 13th

I have been trying to get the tapered ends but it wont work. I followed everything you said to. Can anyone help with that part?
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7ussam November 13th

thank you you have
been very helpful
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Dominik S.{Domi26} November 13th

Realy nice tutorial..!
If i had cash on Paypal u would have a coffee of me :p
here my 2 outcomes:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4236/glow1lm0.png
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/1299/glow3mh9.png
Go on making good stuff like these..!
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Yorsol! November 15th

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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loay November 15th

it’s marvelous
amazing
thank you for this amazing tut.
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Robert J Salazar Jr November 15th

Thank you so much. Knowledge is power and hopefully somebody will create some nice usable templates with these
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mangesh November 15th

excellent
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jennifer mcerlean November 15th

hiya i really want to learn this technique for my college work.. but i cant quite get the hand of how to use the pen tool and i can not make the s shape.. if some one could help me how to.. or know any good tutorials on how to get that shape i would so appreciate it.. thanks.. jennifer
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komal November 15th

xcellent fx….thanx
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night~angle November 17th

Awesome tut man. I like your style, clearing the basics yet having areas to explore.
here is something I got…
http://i5.tinypic.com/6ol3ic2.jpg

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Moyez Khan November 18th

It’s simple and great…..
thanks bud…
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Fernanda November 19th

Please, i cant make the stroke path…when i select the option, just spots appears in my work =/
somebody could help me?
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Buddy Nandika November 19th

It’s a very professional tutorial. I know it’s not for the basic user, but everybody can do it, if they practice…practice and practice…
Good works
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Blaze November 19th

Very….very…..VERY!!! nice tutorial!!! I enjoyed the whole thing. It took a while but it was worth it. By taking tutorials you learn a lot and can improve your graphic skills in photo shop. I appreciate you taking the time and effort into making this WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL tutorial!
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Diamonds & Girls November 20th

@#353 Fernanda
Make sure you have the correct brush selected prior to applying a stroke to your path.
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ashu November 20th

thnx for tuto…………….i like so much
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tricker November 20th

great work…………… keep rocking.
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Chaitanya November 20th

Wohaa!!
It looks stunning!!!
Will look superb with a nice curvy calligraphy font!
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ezsky November 20th

thanks,so cool. i like this.
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Ã‰lis L. November 21st

Very nice!…… thanks!….. Gracias, es justo lo que necesitaba y estaba buscando!………
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Sean November 21st

I can’t get the swish to work. I do everything right, but it just ends up putting dots where I put the differnet points. Anyone got any help? Pelease?
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Madhavi Yob November 22nd

EXCELLENT ! Loved it, thanx a lot
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Delly November 24th

It’s really nice and by no doubt, its very useful.
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saru November 24th

w00t! Last Post! Yeey…
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fatman November 26th

GREATNESS
this tut helped so much
thanks man
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Seiji Manoan Seo November 26th

It’s all
I like this image
Very good*
Tnx
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sai November 26th

simply awesome, i am really glad that i found this site !! all professionals are here !!
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Harish Reddy V November 26th

The overall effect, very nice. Very simple and effective. Though I wouldnâ€™t say it is â€œHardâ€ to figure out how to do this effect, The only part I strongly dislike is that background Nice work though
wow its nice ya!!!
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exinco November 27th

wow this is cool man, i like you work, fantastic
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Topper007 November 28th

Simply amazing !!!
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siva November 28th

Sir,
Very great, i like very much. i kiss your hands.
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omnichelle November 29th

This is a great tutorial and I’ve learned so much just in the first few steps!
I know this is about to be a real dummy question, but I can’t find the Pen tool!! I’m using Photoshop Elements 4.0. Does this program not have the pen tool? I have a pencil and brush, but no pen! Any advice is much, much appreciated.
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Bucky November 29th

thank you dude, great job!
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Niko December 2nd

Hello great tutorials thank you but I can’t download the PSD file to see the parameters of layers styles I’m trying for a long time and I can’t download it again. bye
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Guy Who Needs Help December 2nd

what program is thst photoshop cs, cs2, or cs3
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Dont Read This December 2nd

this
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z100/weeman_photobucket/newsig2.png
ohh yaa
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haley December 2nd

I cant get the stroke path to work… anyone who can help me.. PLEASE email me at haley_nashea@yahoo.com
thanxx
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AMadi December 3rd

what can i said, this is amazing and excellent work
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Shawn December 3rd

please help!! i really want to do this, it looks really amazing!!! but im stuck at the pen part! i try to make a “S” but it keeps cutting threw my layers! please help! thank you
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Rajnikant December 4th

Wow Its really a Cool effect..
Thanks,
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Juan December 4th

How come at step 4 the Sketch option is disabled?
What am I doing wrong?
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1. Jai August 12th
  
  Same for me
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javier December 4th

good tut!
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Mr. Willy7 December 5th

HEY MAN!!! Incrible tutorial eh!!! Es el primero que hago y en un idioma extranjero!!! Esta genial…abrazos!!
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junny December 5th

maybe i’m the dumbest person on this website…but i can’t hit “stroke path” with or without an extra layer , i really think i’m missing something verry important . Can please somebody help me out? )
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Rajnikant December 6th

Cool Effect….!
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Studio 2 December 7th

This is a very simple, but effective tutorial and produces excellent results if followed correctly. I have linked to you on my forum.
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mouna December 8th

i like it waw
( Reply )
john connor December 8th

hey! why do I have the sketch filter off?
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john connor December 8th

great! I finally did it! great thanks!
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JD December 9th

You have NO idea how much this helped! I can’t thank you enough.
Lovely tutorial, one of the most useful I’ve ever come across.
( Reply )
Firmalar December 10th

Very Clear ..
Thank you
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Zach December 10th

So on stage 5 the pen tool, when ever i click pen tool,a nd do it, it feels the whole thing up with black.. how do i just make it so it doesnt fill in?
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shubhra December 11th

its amazing, thanks a lot!
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Ali K December 12th

thx for great sharing ..i love it …
trying something it is below that link
http://swordali.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html
hope see more like this sharing …this cool effect…
and hope to share with us some ps brush…
All my best estambul
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regan December 12th

really nice… i was wonder how to do this kinna stuff..thanx…
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Noody December 12th

I love these designs
We have worked quite like him and became very beautiful (;
Thank you very much
I am Waiting you for their new designs
( Reply )
Pieter December 12th

Really great tutorial ! Thanks
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andy stewart December 12th

this tutorial ha sfinaly brought my love of photoshop back to life!!! cheers for sharing!!
check out the results: http://andystewart-design.com/index.php?/project/the-union—new-flyers-/
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Victor December 13th

In step 4 it doesn’t let me use the sketch filter …why?
the image looks awesome by the way! very good!
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Soup December 13th

Excelent tut mate!!. 5 Stars.
For those who got stucked in the “stroke path”, step 7-8, (like me), i tried using the “warp” tool (edit>transform>warp)after stroking and deleting the path, to get the ends of the curve more soft. Just warp the left and right corners of the box till you get the edges like you want.
Anyway, if someone knows a better way to do this part, i’d like to know it, because i did all the “pen/brush/pen” steps and my line allways results with the same width.
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Nitasch December 14th

Junny,
I was banging my head on the keyboard trying to figure out the “stroke path” also…. turns out, the layer i had it in was not the top layer. Don’t ask my how I got it messed up, but I did. Make sure the layer you use the pen tool is the top most layer, and try it again just as stated, it works perfectly.
Thank you so much for this tutorial / Idea, I have already put a great add logo together!!
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Cybre December 15th

That was awesome! What a fun tutorial, thanks! =)
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gaurav ruhella December 15th

I also liked it
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Talang December 18th

Great tutorial. But I have a problem to do this, After I make step 5 I get some black shadow and it mess up the whole thing, need some help.
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Juan Cochina La Paz,Mexico December 18th

I have done this before, and liked it so much I wrote it down in my ‘hints’ book. It’s a stunning effect. I do many planetary drawings and I used some of your effects in them. Great stuff.
The most respectful thing I saw on this site was no stupid or boastful comments. I get so tired of reading things like ‘U Suck, that was shit, man’ from the low end jerk with the same name or the ‘I kin do a bunch better’ from the braggarts. Congrats to all who left comments too. You are a mature and interesting group.
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Emma Lee December 18th

arg… i got lost after step 4 with the overlay -_-
but thanks!
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Mustafa December 18th

nice lesson good thanxs
my sign:
i waiting you):
take care
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Fredde December 19th

awesome tutorial!
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RonaiR December 19th

Dude…Gr8 work indeed…the fine touches as the shading and the outer glow makes it mesmerizing!!! Wat a talent….looking out for more fun stuff…
Tanx 4 sharing!!!!
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Matematik Ã–zel Ders December 20th

great, thx for sharing
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leslie December 20th

thanks f0r sharinG.i luv yah.=]
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Triple-H December 22nd

thanx for this awesome tutorial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i always thought about photoshop as a program with no much abilities
your tutorial openned my eyes to the real 2d world
deserve 10 / 10
Final touches most awesome
thank u for sharing
thanx
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senthil December 24th

Great tutorial, nice effect. the colour is Rich.thanks for sharing.
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Lara December 24th

Hi! I can’t do the step 7, the stroke path is not available.. why?
Lara
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Lara December 24th

Please show me some screenshots showing how you do that. thank’s =)
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Mohammed December 25th

Great stuff. to be honest the colored background deserves to be in a separate tutorial. wonderful.
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Michael December 27th

Thanks, I’ve been looking for a tutorial like this for ages.
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Kristin December 28th

I am a noob at this so forgive me but um, on step five, I get lost. After doing the chrome affect. What do I do next to achieve that look before using the pen? Very sorry. Again, I’m a noob. Eh heh.
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cathy December 29th

If you end up with dots when you stroke path, instead of a nice line:
when setting up your brush, open Windows>Brushes and ensure Spacing is ticked and set to 1%
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manuel December 29th

thank you so much. Thanks to you I have added another visual “weapon” to my Photoshop armory. You rule dude.
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Mangesh December 29th

amazing there is no words to tell.
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sha December 29th

wow nice tutorial i applied it on one of my work and here’s what i’ve got….
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a357/choijiwoojodi/jennlyn8.jpg
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Fredrik December 30th

ah, sorry guys. I nailed it
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kung January 3rd

Thanks so much for the tutorial, such a great one. But there is one point I get stuck. It’s the “smokie” layer. I definitely follow along the steps, but mine does not seem like smoke, but like the liquid surface. I use CS2 version. How can I manage on this?
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carolina January 3rd

does this works for photoshop 7? because i can’t do the step 7!
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Cheney January 3rd

thank you.i’ve never seen it!
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Farhod January 4th

wow, never seen such a beautiful tutorials. i wonder how can one do that. please teach me too.
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stickman January 5th

awesome tutorial, had always wanted to get this exact effect but never found a tutorial so informative.cheers for taking the time to do it.
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Markus January 6th

I had a lot of fun with this!
Cheers!
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Mort January 6th

Its beautiful! Tanks!
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Alberto January 7th

very nice
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Martin January 8th

Thanks for the tutorial.
To the people who are having trouble with the filters: it’s because some filters only work in RGB mode. Switch from CMYK and you should be golden.
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Braintrove.com January 9th

Great stuff! Thanks!
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veronica January 9th

hey….thanks 4 the tutorial…..it has been great…… good look
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James January 10th

reminds me of the house md, tv show introduction
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sora January 10th

wow…. very nice tutorial.thx
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hell-world January 14th

Owww Nice Effect and tutorial !!
Tx… 4 you…
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Jon Web Design January 14th

awesome glow effects
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a2za January 14th

Hey Check my work!
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9549/glowcopygq3.png

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Kareem January 15th

Hey, Im Just Wondering, I’m Having Trouble Getting The Tapered Edges, I Did Everything It Says But It Doesn’t Come Out Tapered, Can You Help Please?
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Pradip January 16th

Its amazing…….. n ultimateeeeeeee
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Christ January 17th

Woo~~~~ That’s cool!
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mehmet January 17th

you have to right click on the line which will open you the menu you can make stroke path.. i hope this will help you good luck to you with step 7, which drive me crazy with a different problem
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jack January 17th

iâ€™ve done your tutorial before and really enjoyed it. i tried to do the swish lines for another piece iâ€™m working on but iâ€™m not getting the same effect as i did before. any clue why that might be happening?
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Mei January 18th

Kareem – make sure the Simulate Pressure box is ticked (step 7).
Collis – once again you hit the jackpot. Great tutorial!
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noob04 January 18th

At step 8 i have this:
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/7894/shitvr7.png
It doesnâ€™t Come Out Tapered but i ticket the simulate pressure……I don’t know where’s the problem?
And another guy has problems with this here you can see:
http://www.ekhoury.com/2008/01/08/abstract-shine-animation-with-photoshop-and-imageready/
(at comment 12)
:S
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designerjt January 18th

the particles are a bit too much.
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heta January 19th

I m thrilled by the this thing…. i am the beginner to the photoshop and i just do it as my hobby… and i m really greatful to u for this tutorial… thanks alot for the tutorial…
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Sgt. Fish January 19th

Heh, I don’t know if you guys realized this or no about it, or even care, but the “WikiUPLOAD” image in the top left corner is this exact same image but with different font:
http://www.jumbofilehost.com/Telescopic_Nature_of_Evolution_Waking_Life_Excerpt.html
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Elie El Khoury January 20th

hey noob04, I updated the tutorial and got a solution for your problem:
http://www.ekhoury.com/2008/01/08/abstract-shine-animation-with-photoshop-and-imageready/
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Jordan January 20th

Great tutorial!
I think this guy liked it a lot, too!
http://www.jumbofilehost.com/
Straight rip off!
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Nodster January 22nd

Hi there, as a newbie to photoshop i’m having a bit of trouble following this tutorial. The effect looks great but if only i could get past stage 3!
I’ve tried everything i know to get the filter gallery to be able to use the cloud filter. When i click new layer and select it (either by using the rectangular marque tool / filling it with color), the cloud filter is grey’d out.
Could somebody point me to the error in my technique pls.
thanks
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W January 22nd

Ok….no Stroke Path option once I have the pen tool selected, and new layer created.
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brianna January 22nd

This is awesome! Thanks! the best glow effect tutorial I’ve come across!
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akinser January 23rd

I don’t know if it has been mentioned before, but I had the same problem with the simulate pressure not working. I found that going to the drop down menu in the brushes and selecting ‘reset brushes’ worked pretty well. hope that helps some people.
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vicky January 23rd

i cannot seem to get past the chrome filtering stage, the sketch filter is unabled on the clouds layer. am i doing somthing wrong???
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Jake January 23rd

Very nice!
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Rachel January 24th

Step 7:
Now switch back to the PEN tool. You must switch tools in order to do this next bit.
Then right click and select “Stroke Path”. You will get a little dialog box appear as in the screenshot. Choose “Brush” and make sure there is a tick next to “Simulate Pressure”. This is important as it will give your curve tapered ends which will make it rock!
Next right click again and select “Delete Path”.
Having problems with this. when i right click i cant click on the stroke path button, its gray.
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handsome January 24th

realy nice
great designer
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Nodster January 24th

OK found my problem with the cloud filter not working. The color mode was set to 16bit, changed this to 8bit and it enabled the filter gallery.
hope this helps others who come across the same problem.
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1. Jai August 12th
  
  Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss … thank you!
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Phillip January 25th

@cathy – You da bomb! Thanks!
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Dave January 25th

it is really one of the best out there, and it helped me alot
thanks alot and keep up the good work!
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sepulchrate January 27th

brilliant.
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Kri January 28th

That was AWSOME!!!! I love it !!!
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rolly_darkhand January 28th

great one..,i could not harldy think how this people do such things.
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Greg January 29th

I’ve found the font: GeometricSlab712BT LightA on a few sites from google, all available for _purchase_
I don’t think you can rip the font from the psd, so if anyone finds this font for free, give me a shout: greglewis67@gmail.com
Love the tutorial, very versatile. The effect is amazing, and it forced me to learn how to use paths properly. Thanks for this.
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guigui January 29th

Awesome !!! thx a lot !!
the link to file to download is broken could you fix it!!? it will be very nice !!
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Obstgemuese January 30th

I love this one. great tutorial.
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Nikos January 30th

I dont know what to say… Thats the best tutorial webpage I have seen ever. Congratulations…
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Joseph January 31st

thanks a lot
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denuim January 31st

great! very nice but your tutorial is like for advance users only how about for beginners.you did not actually tell the step by step. just a comment! once again great job MATE!
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Anonymous February 1st

Nice tutorial its a pretty impressive effect. The only problem I have is that your tutorial doesn’t go into much depth when it comes to specifics and you want us to download the .psd file to figure it out but the link is broken making it hard to follow.
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Arup sen February 2nd

Yahhh …
very wonderfull and helpful also.
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Slackers February 2nd

broken link with the psd file, thanks in advanced, thanks for this tuto looks amazing, cant wait for put those kida effects into my work, thanks again!
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Tony February 2nd

I love it.
Will use it for a customer.
Thanks a lot for sharing.
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douthinkimcrazay February 5th

awesome work!! i just cant get the glow to work i can do the pen and the stroke but when i fix the layers with the drop shadow and all that it just comes out all dull and not glowing like in the picture is cuz im using cs2 and not cs3 jus wondering! cuz i would really love to make them glow!!
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tebu February 5th

thanks a lot it was really useful.
please teach us more………
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Rohit Pratap Singh February 6th

Very great tutorial buddy, you are taking all the graphic designers to the right way. You are enhancing the skills of all graphic designers.
Me too a graphic designer and I found this tutorial really cool.
THANKS
ROHIT
+91-9818716836
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Rohit Pratap Singh February 6th

really cool
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Vanish_l2 February 6th

I tried this=)
Too Cool!!!!!!!!!!
thanks friend!!!
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garcinga February 7th

hi, i like very much your tuts… i rss you and digg your work… visit my blog and live feedback…
good works…. (“,)
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ramu February 8th

Wonderful tutorial more tutorials form your web site
thanks this tutorial
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Mark February 8th

Hey, I really enjoyed this tutorial! I am forever fascinated by the evolution of this glowing lines concept, people have done some great stuff with it. Here’s what I made following your clear steps. http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/8049/glowtutii2.jpg
The only part that confounded me for a second was the pen tool, which defaults to shapes instead of paths in CS3
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ali February 8th

excellent! easy, straight forawrd, great results!
thanks!
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Mario February 13th

Great tutorial!
I have a small problem tho… i can’t seem to get that “simulate pressure” effect on my curves; I’m using PS CS3… do you maybe have any idea what could be the problem?
Thnx!
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Rob February 13th

Thanks for the tutorial, I was always trying for this effect but always had the blending modes wrong.
here is what i used it on. Gives the logo more character.
http://par4pro.com/maruman/
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thomas February 13th

you might want to cut down theamount of comments on every age it slows down my comp alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Criztaztrophe February 14th

I am using Paint Shop Pro 7 … And Im not really that good, hince Im looking at all these tutorials and this one I REALLY LIKE… but I cant find Color dodge …. Please help. Thanks alot.
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Hanne February 17th

Great! Thank you! xx
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Sam February 19th

Fan-freakin-tastic.
I’ve experiemented and discovered a few of these techniques on my own, but seeing a step by step process here is really nice and gave me some new ideas.
Kudos!
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kenneth February 20th

Wow, the PSD is actually free! That’s awesome… I would’ve even paid for it ($10ish)… really neat stuff!
Keep up the good stuff!
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Mo February 20th

wow amazing.
thank you so much for sharing! Learned about coloring, and creating those awesome lines with the pen tool.
Once again, Thanks!
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thekosherguy February 21st

Dude this is freakin dope!
Its’ awesome!
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ryan February 21st

Yeah the whole “simulate pressure” does not work on my copy of photoshop at all. I get standard lines for some reason. Pretty much kills this entire tutorial. Running CS3.
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a dude February 22nd

oh man your the best for lettin us downlaod the psd for free
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Giya February 26th

I also had some difficulty getting the brush effects to work properly. If you can’t get it to work try clearing all of your brush settings and then turning on brush dynamics. That’s it!
Here’s my attempt plus some chromakey action.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2005/2285991575_6764a17cb1.jpg
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ozz February 26th

thanks A LOT !!
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Melissa February 27th

Im running CS3 as well and when I create a new layer for the glow effect my lines stay Grey( or what ever colour I have selected).
Also when I click “simulate pressure” it basically looks the same through out the line ( doesnt seem like it works)
Wish I could get this to work, becuase this effect is amazing!
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Mark Abucayon February 29th

Two thumbs up!- great job and very creative.
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Saad March 1st

Well its a Preety Nice Work a Real Some Firing Blowing Effect But Unfortunately i Cant Give it Real Look Like it Seems My Pen tool Curves not So Good .but i really Happy to do this Tutorials .^__^. nice Work….
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Terry March 2nd

cool stuff guys. remember people, you have to switch back to the pen tool, right+click (win) and then select stroke path.
love this stuff…
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Josh March 4th

Thats some great tips! Good work!
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Bruce March 4th

Fantastic tutorial – easy to follow and one where the results actually turn out like they look on the example!
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NeroLupo March 4th

YOU ARE THE MAN!! This guide is just AMAZING!!! Now i learned how to do glows for my works, and i will always THANK YOU!!!! BRAVO (yeah, I’m Italian) Ciao!!!
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Scott GM March 6th

Great tutorial for modern and stylish design. i’ve often used a similar glow effect when creating headers or signatures websites . I often use CS3 at college but i had trouble getting the tapered ends of the glow when i was using CS2 at home but the problem was soon sorted after i changed the brush tip shape to “Shape Dynamics” , which can be found under , Window > Brushes .
hope this helps anyone having trouble with the Tapered ends of the glow stroke.
“ScottGM”
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Zombie Kangaroo March 9th

pretty awesome tutorial, best glow effects one ive seen yet.
the only thing i did differently wen i tried it is instead of going blue to white when ur applying the extra colors, i did blue to transparent so it wouldnt dull the red
great tut tho, keep’m up
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djolebest March 10th

here is my outcome I know it not really good but im a begginer so…
http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/4/3/9/f_gloweffectm_57fe105.jpg
ps:very nice tutorial dude and thanks for sharing
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hugo March 11th

great tutorial! very lots of thanks, I did a corporative’s wallpaper sample for my job.
http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nationtrafficglowcj7.jpg
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HamBoneZ March 11th

Nice tutorial! I did it automn when the tutorial was made but I kinda los my entry so far and I finally got it back.
My entry is like if I was a DJ and a made a Mixed album ( nothing true in this )
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5323/maquetteenpanoramiquezi5.jpg
- BoneZ
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shayan March 13th

so pro .. its so cooool !!!!!!
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PSNX March 14th

I followed this as you said but i cant go any further than “step 7″
i made the pen line
created a new layer
set the brush
went back to the pen layer
right clicked
and it would allow the option for “stroke path”
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Bill March 15th

EXCELLENT!
Thanks!
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IkRAM March 17th

i cant do the end bit with the colors mine goes black and whitr
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Clarisse March 18th

I too have been having problems with the step 7… =( The botton remains Grey
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g-o March 20th

Thanks PSDTUTs for sharing this great tutorial. I’ve been looking for this tutorial so bad. Thanks again and God bless.
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Bob March 21st

after step 7 it doenst let me pick Stroke Path…..Why?
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Seppe March 22nd

wow. I did it Thank you very much for this tutorial!!
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Seppe March 22nd

btw : Those who has a problem with step 7, please try and refer to this link : http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Photoshop-1028/Pen-Tool-Stimulate-Pressure.htm
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Chozunn March 23rd

Its not letting me click “stroke Path”
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sheshtaway March 24th

wooooooooooooooooooow
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sbs March 24th

I did it. Thank you. Regards..
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teknolojik icatlar March 24th

wonderful..
thanks…
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Masood March 25th

I love this tutorial. It is Awesome!!!!!!!!!
Thank You…..
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Javinavas March 27th

I can’t make this thing works!!! it’s letting me select STROKE PATH but nothing happen!!!
I followed next steps:
1) create curve
2) create new layer and select brush tool
3) rigth click, select STROKE PATH and select simulate pressure.
and then step 8 is totally nothing!!!!!
please help!!! javi.anp@hotmail.com my msn!!!!
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harish March 27th

excellent tutorial man…thaankq
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Kakumei March 29th

Haha! This is my 2nd attempt at doing these glow effects.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i99/hitomikanzaki88/NubGlowFX.jpg
I really really think the glow effect looks awesome! Thanks for the wonderful tutorial!
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laala March 30th

hey, i really like the result what you have and i’d like to do it too, but i can’t understand how did you do those lines or smth, [ those glowing ] ?! :S
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zdzz March 31st

hi, I cant seem to do the stoke path bit when I right click its blank. Thanks
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Mr. Plekedix March 31st

Hebat… banged imajinasinya… sangat menginspirasi saya.
DOUBLE TWO THUMBS UP
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Springston April 1st

Great Job Keep workin’
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bee April 1st

Wow, really cool effekt – just tried it out and it simply looks great. Thank you!
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michael April 3rd

WOW. That’s great.
Thank you very much…
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MasterT April 3rd

A week looking for the right effect/tutorial. Found it in yours Cheers.
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Aleksandar Ruzicic April 3rd

Simply amazing!
tnx for sharing!
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newbie April 4th

dam_n this tutorial is the bomb, THANKS ALOT MATE. but for some reason i DO NOT get those whishy ends on PART 8. i made the tick on simulate pressure but it doesnÂ´t give me this nice touch.
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Steven April 5th

great tutorial! Very helpful!
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trademark registration April 6th

It’s really quite beautiful. Great work! =)
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Krayg :) April 9th

this is a SICK tutorial mate
you really know how to please me
i feel as if i have been touched by an angel with this tutorial
thanx for the pleasure of that
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Henri April 10th

nice tutorial thx for that
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Henri April 10th

dunno if anybody here already sad that, but in step 7-8 when you use the pen tool you have to select this option [look at the screenshot:9] http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7477/neubitmap5kq3.png ! after i tried that it worked;)
greetz, hope i could help, Henr!
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Mark April 14th

well pointed out by henri, I had problems with this thanks.
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Arun April 15th

Wow Great Coll You Have Done A Great Job
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Wyzrd April 16th

Thanks for this tutorial it was really good and clear. It also taught me more about the pen tool because I’ve never really messed with it before.
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Hart April 16th

Woah nice tutorial…BUT! i cant do it cause when i put the mark on the Simulate Preassure on my photoshop following this tutorial it wont make the ends like that…i get the same result as if i didnt mark the Simulate Preassure. Any taughts on that?
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Native_Son April 19th

I’ve been trying to capture this effect for a while but fell way short of your design and spent crazy hours tweaking my poor results. The colored gradients are a remarkable accent. Well, I guess that’s why I’m here… GREAT TUT!!!
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PrinceOfTears April 21st

thanks for this tutorials
really Great
hope u can give us more and more like this great one
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Tanie Projektowanie April 21st

Looks easy, I will try do this. thx
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walidad April 23rd

it’s too awesome bro.i have been looking for this tutorial.thank
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Carlo Veltri April 24th

BELLOOOOOO…. It’s a very good tutoria!
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S@k@lIk April 25th

For CS3 users. For normal Pen tool Stroke Path doesn’t work (for me) – that option was still grey. But if I make shape, than do curves and so on, it goes. Nice work!
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setamym April 25th

GIMP was very practical. Thanks for your tutorial.
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alan April 26th

were can i get the font for it
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luis April 28th

i don’t know why but the “stroke path” option is there but doesn’t work when i right click, anybody knows what could be wrong?
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han April 29th

It’s great
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Pierre April 30th

I also had the stroke path-problem, but here’s a solution that, at least, worked for me:
Draw a path using the Pen tool.
Create a new layer and pick a brush and color.
Use the Path selection tool to mark the path you did before.
Go the the “Paths”-tab (usually next to the layers-tab). If you don’t have it, go to “Window” at the top-navigation of your screen and add it.
Do a copy of of the path. (this option will be greyed out, but you can double-click it to make one)
Go back to the “Layers”-tab and mark the path, and the layer you want the path to go in, and then right-click and use your Stroke Path.
Remove the paths and layers you don’t want anymore, and you’re all done!
Maybe this solution is a bit messy, but it works
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sudam May 1st

Thanks for your help
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Danny May 1st

This is truely one of my favorites here on PSDTUTS. Had to come back and bookmark this page
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BMD-Media.com May 1st

Yeah, Ill be using this!! Great Job!
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Ajit Prakash May 1st

It’s Awesome Mate!!!
Thanx for such a nice tutorial
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Brendan May 3rd

Hey is anyone having problems when adding the coloring layers at the end? After I add just one of them, and pull the opacity down, the whole image starts to kind of gray out and get muddy. Any tips? Thanks!
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Brendan May 3rd

I found a solution to my previously mentioned problem. To avoid having the whole image become more and more washy when adding the color layers at the end, I found it helps to have each of the gradients go from your desired colors to transparency, rather than white. Hope that helps. Cheers.
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.... May 5th

I get up to step 8 but it doesn’t look anything like the picture, it looks just like the background & you can hardly see it, I’ve tried to try different things to make it look like the picture but it’s not working. Anybody have any solutions?
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echo May 5th

Im sorry but everytime i do the lines with the pen tool and then add the stoke all that comes out are 3 dots 2 at the ends and one in the middle. Am i using the wrong PS version?
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Dangle May 8th

One thing I’ve noticed that doesn’t seem to be mentioned. Seems this was created using 72dpi. When I attempted this tutorial at 300dpi, the ‘grain’ in the clouds appeared much smaller, thus affecting the chrome filter when applied to the cloud effect, making the smoke appear smaller as well. Enlarged the cloud layer a few 100% and looked more like the tut.
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Rajesh May 14th

Great Tutorial! I didnâ€™t know about the Simulate Pressure feature.. Thanks for sharing it. It is Supe coolâ€¦
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locjan May 16th

its cool man! ok, thanks for the tips i will try it right now. i plan to put a great logo on my video and i will made it
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aalanwar May 17th

Awesome, simple, effective.
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Diesel May 23rd

Brilliant. Here is what I did with help from this tutorial. Its an earlier version of our webpage intro pic.
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/4658/fixdwebsimplisitc2th3.jpg
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Mike May 27th

I found the font! =D
http://rapidshare.com/files/99797646/Geo_Slab_712.rar.html
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Tutzor May 27th

Great technique, I’ve used it in my work quite a few times already.
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Rafa May 30th

Excelente !!! Muchas gracias !
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oh thanks is my name for you June 1st

thanks you very much dont give up go on
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gaurav June 3rd

thnx….
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whelderwheels613 June 3rd

This is really nice. I have 1 question: what was the font you used and how did you get it so thin. I used Rockwell (I think its the same) but its too fat. how do i make the thickness of the text less? Great job!!
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YEO June 5th

AMAZING!
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Mitch June 7th

So I played with the glow effects on this after working out the tutorial. I didn’t like how the glow was a set color. I would have liked them to be reactive of whatever was below. Here’s how I tweaked them (everything is the same as the tutorial except what is specified):
Outer Glow: Color is set to white (FFFFFF), blending mode to “Linear Dodge (Add)”, Opacity is 60
Drop Shadow: Color is set to white (FFFFFF), Opacity is 60
Now the streaks are on top, and react to the colors below. This is more flexible for me.
I also used gradient layers instead of the gradient tool. Just my thoughts. Thanks to the Church Marketing Lab for pointing me to this site.
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Ramesh Soni June 7th

Great post.. thanks..
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chix++ June 9th

great tutorial..thx for sharing.
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Kashish0711 June 10th

Thanks a lot, I was able to made something Great with this.
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shan arakkal June 12th

Thanku.. Adios…………
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waycool June 20th

Really well explained and delieved, nice use of simple paths gradients. Thank’s for putting the time in for us all. keep it up!
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Nimpsy June 21st

Thanks for the pen tool tip. I hardly ever use the pen in PS. Now I have a good reason to.
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erik June 21st

looks easy but hard to control the color-_-#;
http://clip2net.com/clip/m3651/1214028888-clip-237kb.jpg
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pica June 22nd

hi there
just wanted to drop by and give you a link to what i’ve done with this tutorial/ layer style
http://pica-ae.deviantart.com/art/Need-Some-More-89346104
had a lot of fun to work with
cheers!
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DannyJ June 24th

great mines did not come out as nice
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jorge M June 25th

this is very great.but im having a problme with the whole 5th part..help please!!
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NazarDesign June 25th

Woooow!! is amazing!!!
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mattk37 June 26th

great tutorial!
check it out- now my sig for many forums:
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4139/sigglowcw4.png
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/3749/avatarglowmi4.png
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sachin kumar June 26th

i have lot of design in Photoshop but this graphic is so beautiful and really heart touches
graphic plz give me suggestion too because i am also graphic designer
and i want be a great designer
thanks
sachin
sun_sachin07@yahoo.com
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Joe Hikawa June 27th

Beauty great graphic. Thanks.
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J_syk June 28th

Here’s a link to a desktop background I created:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y160/j_syk/Johnglow.jpg
Same basic steps, but I added a grunge texture over the whole thing as well as some glowing halftones behind the text.
The font is Porcelain. It was used in another tut on this site. I forgot the orginal site, but can be found on Dafont.com. Used some ribbon and ink type brushes to add some flair.
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Aviator June 28th

I’ve found that if you put the glowing layers above the colour gradients then you get a much brighter and ‘glowier’ result.
Great tutorial
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Bikram raj June 28th

So use full tutorials now i feel i m deferent photoshop
thanx of your
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Affordable Web Design June 29th

Great stuff you have here, I’ll be looking forward to using this tutorial in the future.
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SSG June 29th

You’ve just saved my bacon. I was trying to figure out have to do something cool with the word Shine and I think I found the perfect thing. I love your tutorial and have you bookmarked now. I’m off to try this and then I’ll probably browse through your other tutorials. Thanks so much!
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ja June 30th

gr8 article 10x
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dropx June 30th

Guys,
Can you please add paging system to comments! I know it is good that you have many reader and they comment but it crashes my browser to list all comments. Please?
Thanks.
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Fara7 June 30th

Thanks alot for this tutorial. It is really interesting and helpful.
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nubster July 1st

it’s rather for people who have had quite a bit of experience with photoshop because the explanation is at some points hard to find what you mean. ive spend an hour searching the radiant layer for instance on everything else this tut is great tho i didnt get quite the glow u got from it
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Josso July 2nd

Awesome tutorial!
And @Mike: Thanks for the font. ;D
Greetings from Denmark,
- Johan aka Josso
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nat July 2nd

Great tutorial.Love it.Thanks
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Melody July 3rd

Thanx so much this like just saved my life i was trying to do glow lines but could not get it right and then i saw this tut and omg its like awesome
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Abin V Paul July 4th

Very Nice Tutorial
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Death July 5th

When i try use the pen tool, the stimulate function doesn’t make a change to mine….
It was working perfectly last night, i haven’t changed any settings.
Everything comes out as a thick line and doesn’t fade at the ends anymore
And help on how to fix this?
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tsenee July 5th

wow cool yeeeeeeeeeeh
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Emily July 7th

This was an amazing tut!
Thanks so much, i made my LapTop wall paper and this is how it turned out .. haha i LOVE how you ended the photo with sort of a mysterical colorfull backround .. perfect touch!
I changed my words, for my desktop.
Haha but it turned out perfect.
http://i29.tinypic.com/160ppvp.jpg
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Serhan Uygur Chosen July 7th

OMG I am SOOOO trying this tut! Great job m8 looks Spectacular!!!
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Justin July 8th

Really good thanks!! To add a good “milky way” effect squiggle with a largish white brush, and do a radial blur, and set to overlay, behind the curves. It sort off helps blend in the stars
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danial July 9th

tanx so much
very good effect to me
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mario323 July 9th

I’m having a little trouble with this tut. My glowing lines aren’t turning out as bright as yours, but I think I did everything right. Any help?
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mario323 July 9th

oh, i think the problem might be that you duplicated your curves a few times without telling us…?
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HELP ME July 9th

i cant get the smoke effect it jus looks like chrome ive done 30% opacity and overlay but it dont look like the 1 in the tut
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a tip July 15th

if you change the gradient from (color-white) to (color-transparent) on the last step of the tutorial the colors get less faded.
also I had problems with the path setting on the pen. just click on the pen in a square near the top then you should have no problem.
good job on the tutorial.
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Ali July 17th

Amazing
Absolutely great work
I was looking for this kind of tutorial from a long period of time.
Thank you so much for your help
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chufaxy July 20th

thanks for showing me how to be creative in glow effects
it’s beautifull
May God almighty increase your in wisdom
hope to see you all the time in the site
thaaaaaanks
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Mohager July 20th

thanx alot
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Hugo July 23rd

I can way to radically transform my site using this tuts… thanks.
hugo: http://www.sitioi.com
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Mansoor July 24th

Excellent Tutorial
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TheBulldog July 27th

SWEET REALLY SWEET man i was looking for a tut like this… thank u vm
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Dharmendar pal July 28th

very nice your work
Thanks for This
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Daniel July 31st

Very nice tutorial, ilove it, very useful, thanks a lot!
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Jay R July 31st

Very nice tutorial, I would appreciate it if you could share anymore other effects. Thanks
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Eddie July 31st

made this http://safeinaroom.co.uk/dudeking.gif following the tutorial
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M August 4th

Anyone know how to do this in paint shop pro? I have been trying to figure it out for some time and I didn’t know if you could even, please help if you can
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Mobde3 August 4th

nice tutorial!
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iRFAN sAIT August 6th

A well structured lucid tutorial with dynamic output. The author deserves a “Huge round of applause for this great job!!
keep it up buddy.
Hope for similar great work from you i the near future!
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photoshop 6.0 HELP! August 7th

okay. this works for me until the pen tool comes into action, on photoshop elements 6.0 it has NO pen tool.
if you would please help me with this!
-photoshop 6.0 HELP!
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Mike August 7th

Excellent tutorials, Collis. Borrowed this one for the splash on my nearly entirely inactive blog.
Wrote a quick post about your stuff: http://www.moodge.net/blog.html
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Asuk_Aki August 7th

Wow, your tutorials are awesome! I’ve always wanted to know how to make glowing lines like that…Cheers.
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Josh August 8th

Fantastic tut man!
here’s my result!
http://creativetactics.deviantart.com/art/InfinityDrive-94111711
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josh August 14th

I was just curious… I followed the tutorial all the way through, but I can’ seem to mimic the effect you have placed on the “tips” or “ends” of each line… How did you get the tapered effect? I made sure the tic mark was checked next to “simulate pressure”, but no avail. It looks great, but without the sharp pointy ends it just looks a little too “in your face”.
Thanks,
Josh
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GlobalNet August 15th

Nice Tutorial phoshop
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Daniel Gonzalez August 16th

wooow!!
killer tut!!
this is the first real tutorial that i make and i’m totally surprised by the results!…didn’t know how to use pen when i started xD!….but that fading end looks great
thanks!!
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Calgary Web Design August 19th

Great tutorial, I love this effect!
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Fabolous August 20th

Thanks a lot man helped me lots
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nana yaw August 20th

its simply fantastic
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John K August 21st

This is amazing… I’ve found that it can look really cool and outer space-esque if you add in a subtle lens flare at the most intense spot.
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Lumino August 22nd

Wow ! Very nice one man ! Thanks a lot
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Seraphim Collective August 24th

Great tut, thumbs up!
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Tony August 25th

The stimulate pressure won’t work for me…
If you’ve got MSN, please add mine, tonywhite2259@live.com
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Faraz August 25th

Great work………… !!
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Sanjeev Rawat August 26th

Its awesome!. Now I am your fan. For sure…
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Paulo Toureiro August 26th

this is amazing, i never thought i’d ever be able to achieve a result like this, great tutorial, thank you so much!
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Davitamon August 27th

Thanx, it’s a very cool effect! Thanx again!
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Abhi August 28th

Super cool,Luv it,hoping to learn more.
Thanks a lot for the tut.
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elmasry September 1st

so nice, thanks
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john September 1st

That’s awesome! Thanks…
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AÐ½mÑ”Ñ‚ September 1st

Wow 600+ comments , affective !
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oli September 1st

hey great tutorial but i cant get the cloud effect to work
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Matt September 2nd

Awesome. Great tutorial. Thanks.
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Sheikh September 3rd

Cool Effect, Nice
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AJ September 7th

Alright, so I found this tutorial to be pretty straightforward all the way to step 6. After stroking the paths in step 7, however, I was not able to get a smooth, almost opaque looking line; in fact, my line looks blunt and monotone. Any ideas on how to make this line smoother?
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damonmx September 8th

Cool efect abd great tuto’ a lot of thanks!
@AJ you select “Simulate Pressure” at the stroke path dialog box?
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Ozz September 8th

thank u very very much . now i know how to use Pen Tool !
here’s my artworks http://ozz88.deviantart.com/art/Heretic-Anthem-97346887 http://ozz88.deviantart.com/art/Lights-Of-The-Shadow-97346620
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Olivier September 15th

Thanks for making such a detailed tutorial.
So simple it can’t be true
I made it into this:
http://i38.tinypic.com/29mu8hg.jpg
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David September 18th

Thanks for an easy to follow tutorial!
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Sanny September 22nd

This is a great tutorial indeed! Though I do not understand how to do the glow effect on the text, I couldnt select “Stroke path” or anything like that when I’d written something. Help, please?
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HoÃ ng September 23rd

Hey this is cool!
This is my first try:
http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nhglowsvr2.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nhglowsuc9.jpg
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123 September 24th

Alright, I got to step five. I’m trying to create a path. Done. Three points. I create a new layer. I select the brush tool and select white as my color. I switch back to the pen tool, right click and select “stroke Path”. Brush, simulate pressure… The only thing that lights up are my points in the path, the actual path isn’t filled in. I’m a beginner, but I can’t get past this step. Any ideas? Thanks a million!
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123 September 24th

Also, with the same steps as above, I choose “stroke Path” and choose pencil. This creates a nice thick line along the path, but I can’t get the brush to do the same. Helppp? This is an awesome tut, I really need to learn this process right here.
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123 September 24th

Ahha!! The beautiful answer! Ok, beginning users. At step five you’re instructed to define a path on the same layer as the cloud layer. Then, you must create a new layer and choose your brush size with 100% hardness. You may only get circles at the paths points after you “stroke path” to get your glowing line. To FIx:: Go to your brushes palette that is either docked in the top right corner, or floating on your screen and make sure shape dynamics is checked on. Then go up to “brush tip shape” and go to the bottom and check “spacing” on. You’ll notice the tip now makes a line instead of the two dots. Very obvious to some, but I’ve had no prior learning experience and I started using photoshop last week So for those of you who are just beginning, I’ve hoped to help! Wonderful TuT!!
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123 September 24th

Now for my real question lol anyone know how to check “spacing” on in the brushes window as default? Hope this answer is much quicker
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123 September 24th

oHhhhhHH the possibilities here!!! I’m enthralled, I hope to have a tut on here one day
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saurabh September 27th

Very Good Examples
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Raymond September 29th

Really enjoyed this glowing tutorial! It was worth the time and effort! Keep the inspiration flowing Collis! Thank you!
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Ernie September 30th

Hey great stuff!!!!
One question, how do you do the gradient layers?? I tried using the rectangle tool but it just colors the entire image, some specifics would be awesome!!
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lily September 30th

hey dude,
i really love your generosity, sincerity in teaching and talent!! keep it up!!! thanks v much!! )
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George Campos October 3rd

Fantastic! I love it.
Thanks
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Alaa October 5th

cooooooooooooooooooool
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robert October 7th

really great work… i like it very much
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mrt October 7th

wow awesome tutorial but i think most ppl struggle w/ the cloud thingy
i did it thex
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Lalla October 9th

Fantastic!!!! I’ve try and this is my work: http://i38.tinypic.com/rvg86r.png *Ã§*
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Lexx October 14th

Great tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing.
I didn’t read through every comment but I was having issues with “stimulate pressure” option after trying to stroke the pen path and the solution I found was to select the Brush tool , the Pencil tool , or other painting tool in the toolbox.
Click the Brushes tab to bring the Brushes palette to the front or, if the palette isn’t open, choose Window > Brushes.
To make the tool tip size change with pressure, select Shape Dynamics (be sure to click the word, not just the check box) in the Brushes palette. Then choose Pen Pressure from the Controls menu under the Size Jitter slider control. This completely fixed the issue )
I got this from http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Photoshop-1028/Pen-Tool-Stimulate-Pressure.htm
I don’t use a wacom tablet or any other type but this fixed my problem even with just using my mouse. I hope it’s helpful. I copied and pasted from the site just in case it ever happened to disappear as sites tend to do on occasion.
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renderkid October 16th

outstanding performance
can’t wait to try it
very great thanks pal
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dailymobilegames.com
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Angry Cornflakes October 18th

I really hated Photoshop till JUST THAT MOMENT when the glow effect took place and i dont really leave comments and i really appreciated your tutorial till the point i find myself leaving a comment so i plead with you to continue to do them perhaps you should consider talking to ADOBE (hint hint @ adobe) cuz it really inspired me to continue to use photoshop (i’m a flash user myself ) and to learn more i love the glowing thing
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Jacob October 20th

Thank you so much, This is a great tutorial, keep em; coming.
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Rommel October 21st

amazing tuts, the efffects its very beauty
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Raid K October 21st

incase your stroke path is inactive disabled grayed out, simply make a new layer, and and click the path you made on the layers panel, and drag it and drop it on the new blank layer. this fixed it for me.
i feel like a hero
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James October 28th

with the pen tool i cant seem to get the lines to look like a “S”
When it like colours in white!! please some 1 help
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janey.b October 29th

tooo cool dude!!!
thnx sooo much for sharing your knowledge & experience!!
highly appreciated!!
happy to finaly learned how to make super-cool glowie stuff!!
it’s gonna pour in some life into my future work..
love it!!
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ddanielle November 3rd

that was a great tutorial, thanks for sharing…
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insomniac November 5th

to all those with the sketch problem :
set your Image Mode to 8bit/Channel.
Image > Mode > 8bit/Channel.
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Vruj Patel November 6th

I can’t seem to get the tapered edges. I’ve hit brush, and simulate pressure…
Can someone email me a solution please?
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Dav Kay November 6th

I wish i hard more hands so i can give it more thumbs down…
joking one of the best tuts ive followed
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Takumi86 November 8th

OUTSTANDING DUDE! Thank you so much!!
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LordBug November 10th

This is a fantastic tut! Very easy to follow, with stunning results. Finally, a good confidence builder to start trying some of the other tuts
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abhisek November 12th

ZOMG!
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Kyle November 14th

Great tutorial. Very well explained, thanks for sharing.
x
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deli dana November 20th

I can’t “stroke path” why ?
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harshvardan sharma November 29th

hey dude, tried your step-by-step methods and it really worked uptill the step where you added diff color gradient schemes to it.
I did as you said, but after adding the color schemes, the glow in the picture seems to have vanished and i have a very dull looking picture. Kindly help as to how do i get that reddish yellow glow back
kindly reply back me at harshvardan@aol.in
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Rizwan November 29th

liked it…just wanted to put in a comment as my token of appreciation
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Saro December 1st

Great tutorial! Lot’s of comments Oo
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sticker December 1st

this is very useful thx a lot
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Revenue Robot December 2nd

amazing effect.. i’ve been looking for a tutorial on how to do just this.. Thanks!
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Babatunde Adeyemi December 2nd

Thanks for sharing!
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Honour Chick December 4th

wow… this has got to be the longest comment thread in the cyber world…. great tutorial thought
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wallpapers December 4th

woah – this is somehting special thanks
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Kaka Khan December 5th

Awesome, this one tutorial has teach me lot of things. Many thanks for writing such great tutorial
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macias December 5th

finallly i’ve decided to do this great tut. it was waitin & waitin
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reader December 6th

wow awesome, very detailed and helpful write-up
thank you!!!
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seo December 9th

That was awesome! I have been playing with photoshop for years and have never got over the glow effect! Thanks for the post!
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Web Design Company December 10th

It’s very good article!
Web Design Company: Web Art Sense
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Me, Myself, nor I December 11th

To create some nice additional effects, you can select the both background gradients (the color-dodged one and the original). Then click right>Merge Layers. After this, select the merged layers, click right>blending options>pattern overlay. Select some nice pattern, change the blending mode to overlay, and see what happens (for example, pick the Color Paper>Graph Paper pattern)
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Me, Myself, nor I December 11th

Oh and for the people who can’t get the fading effect: read Gnelfelf’s post! Your brush settings should look like this:
NOTHING SELECTED EXCEPT FOR:
-Smoothing (optional)
-Shape Dynamics: All sliders should be 0%, and control should be set to pen pressure
[maybe you could add this to the tutorial]
[this post can be merged with my previous post xD]
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EZ Computers December 13th

Thats a really awesome and helpful tutorial.
Much appreciated
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ash December 15th

the best site I’ve seen …great stuff …..Great job team
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Reid December 16th

When its time to go to “sketch” I can’t select sketch.. I don’t know what to do. It’s really odd because I’ve done this tutorial before when I had another computer.. I really wish I could figure this out. What do I have to do to make all the filters selectable?
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dorek December 19th

brilliant effect. you really made it easy . thank you!
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Arun Shivaram December 21st

Wonderful Tutorial.. Going to try it out right now
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sandy December 23rd

Thanks for the tuts…Its Really a great work.. I am trying to find out different kind of styles and layouts like this..can u give me an idea..
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REDIENz unstap December 25th

when i use the pen tool. this cames up :S
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=27xo19s&s=5
pls help me, this is a great tot. but i cant understand :/
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Erik Jenkins December 31st

@REDIENz
unstap
You have the pen tool set to “Fill”. At the top left, you should see three little boxes. Click one the middle box to set the Pen tool to paths. You can then manipulate the Paths in the path palette. Good luck!
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cyndy December 31st

great tutorial!
thanks for sharing..
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kevin January 8th

wooow i was looking for a site like this one for a long time.
thanks
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reagan January 8th

in step 7 : “Choose Brush and make sure there is a tick next to Simulate Pressure”, but my curve (final result) is not tapered. Help Me!!!
thx for sharing great tutorial…
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Isa January 10th

nice tut
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P3rikl3s January 10th

Great tutorial, very nice. Thanks!
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Walky January 13th

fantastic, good work, thank for sharing…. God bless you
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MikeM January 14th

@reagan make sure that “simulate pressure” is checked on and that will give you the tapered look with various pressure through out the line. if the “simulate pressure” check box is not there you might be using an older version of photoshop. -chicago website design
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iMPRESSiVE January 15th

THANKS SOOO MUCH!
i did everything ya said n dis is wat i got
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x250/Misz_Moss/advancedglowfx.png
i was quite amazed wit myself lol
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Lulu January 15th

I’m using CS2 on a mac (not sure if it makes a difference) but I can’t see anything but 3 dots, one at each anchor i made, after clicking done for “Simulate Pressure” and changing it to “Brush”. I don’t see “Step 8″ and I don’t believe I’ve done anything wrong
help?
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Steve DiFabio January 15th

I really like hte glow effects. Ill have to try it.
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Gajanand Sharma January 16th

Thanks
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Ben January 19th

great tutorial man thanks
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JW January 24th

Thank You.
Much Appreicated.
JW
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Daria January 25th

Great effect, very clear and beautify!
Thanks so much!
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Mark January 27th

you should explain how the hell you get the end of the line to fade away, as in the thinkness and how to make them disapear into the backgroun
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Eli January 28th

Thank you for sharing.
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kaviraj January 29th

ooh! what a job it is , how u made this man.
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kaviraj January 29th

no words to say. nice man*
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kaviraj January 29th

nice good great super then ,no words to say ya .nice job man
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annie January 29th

To create fading ends – put ALL your Controls to Pen Pressure in Shape Dynamics section of Brush Presents .
Will work 100%.
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CLS January 30th

Cheers mate, excellent tutorial, was kind a searching for the taper effectt but indeed needed to tick “shape dynamics” in the brushes window.
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M32aTa January 31st

Thanks a lot for sharing
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wendy February 1st

great,and you a good sense of humor~!
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Paweł February 1st

Really nice tutorial!!! Thanks a lot!
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aidil February 3rd

very nice
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Steve DiFabio February 3rd

I like these affects. Great tutorial.
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John February 3rd

absolutely sweet tutorial. thanks.
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Gio February 4th

GREAT tutorial really sweet i blown away that I just did this sick, thanks alot i really appreciate all these tutorials. I’m learning awesome tricks and overall improving
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Hany Naeem February 5th

it’s a very nice one, thxx mate, but i face a proplem. it’s each time when i keep pressing the option called ’simulate pressure’ in the stroke path option the line doesn’t get the tapered ends … any suggestions ??
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henk February 5th

a verry nice pic and tut if you know somthing of photohop.
but I am new on photoshop and I dont under stand it.
But I keep trying:P
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Yael February 10th

Such a great and easy to understand tutorial!
Thank you very much!
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porshi February 11th

hey, i’ve linked this tutorial to my artwork at deviant. thanks so much! I’ve enjoyed making this!
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Mustafa February 11th

Awesome..
very creative..
this is site is too awesome..!!!!
thnxx 4 da amazing share..!!!
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hotel centrum szczecin February 11th

nice work
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Steven Noordhof February 13th

I was frustrated with this tutorial initially at just step 8, as some steps were skipped and/or vague, but since there was a sample PSD file, I then downloaded it, looked it over and easily figured it out myself without even having to read any further.
This is has been most helpful, thanks so much and please keep stapling a PSD on the bottom of all your Tutorials as some of us learn best by tearing things open to see how they work.
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Gullu February 15th

good one
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ronald _ perù February 16th

hola me llamo ronald peru grasias por tus of tutorials that are good porfa I like to learn more about you I let you my mail if there is something new in web design and … grasias …
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reagan February 18th

@MikeM, i’m already use Photoshop CS3 with “simulate pressure” and checked… ( please help me…
i’ve been try it for many times, but still with same result…but the line isn’t tapered.
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reagan February 18th

@ Seppe & Lexx
ok, thx bro for the allexperts.com & Shape Dynamics B-)
nice dream…
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alaudin February 18th

very very very execelent.
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Ryan February 21st

love it, thanks!
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NV February 24th

For everyone having PROBLEMS WITH STEP 7 check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJJ9cdpykpU
It points out how you have to actually use the direct selection toll (white arrow) to select the line before you can select the stroke path option
Very useful point if you’re getting stuck
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NV February 24th

And the pen tool HAS to be on the paths option up at the top left bar
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nathan February 25th

woow very nice i put a planet on background
it worked very well
http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss195/n_lfr/SRPOTATOEHEADWORLDcopy.jpg
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Yesir February 26th

What a nice such damn work ,in cantonese:强人.
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alex February 26th

One of the few tutorials that give very clear step by step directions.
Thank you so much!!
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ADil February 28th

when i select new layer and select brush and then switch back to the pen and right click the option stroke path is not selected????
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PhotoshopInstructions February 28th

Very nice tutorial, thanks for sharing the PSD! Will make sure to try this out.
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angys March 2nd

Sketch wont open on step 4
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frustrated March 3rd

Can’t reproduce it.
I created a new canvas, Canvas2.psd, with a black background layer.
A new layer is made and any random brush painted on it.
Then I copy the layer style from the sample.psd and paste into my brush layer on the Canvas2.psd.
The glow effect is not there.
Why?
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1. Mee July 4th
  
  I have the same problemm!!
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Shaani March 5th

Fabulous!!!
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Seto March 6th

Wow… I have never written a comment but this tutorial was so good, it forced me to comment. Awesome Tutorial!
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Arothi March 7th

great!! took some time and multiple efforts… but im done and its amazin! thanks alot
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Matt March 7th

the guy who needs help with the stroke path, just move the shape onto another layer and youll be able to use the stroke path tool then.
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Alexander March 13th

This is awesome, it’s helped me with my graphics alot
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Anon March 16th

Thanks for sharing but I really wish the authors of the tutorials would include more details regarding the settings. I played around for 10 minutes trying to get the glowing lines to look like yours and still couldn’t get it right. Whatever.
Planet Photoshop gives you all kinds of details and shows you differences between settings.
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1. Hitesh December 30th
  
  you have to duplicate the layer, if you can above all comments there is also the .PSD file where you can download the actual picture and see settings in your photoshop.
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FEZ March 16th

WISHE i GOTTEN MORE DETAILS ON MAKING THE GLOW LINES JUST LIKE THE USER ABOVE ME.. I NEVER GOT IT…KINDA OFA WASTE OF TIME THANKS THOUGH
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1. Hitesh December 30th
  
  Read my reply above
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RajG March 17th

Fab job dude……….
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1. JoeB March 24th
  
  Nice work. Gave me nice idea. Thx.
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Faded March 19th

I made one:
[img]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q312/vince77/AdvancedGlow.jpg[/img]
Added my own touch. I kinda suck with the pen tool, and I have no idea how to use gradiant… loool.
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Kriffin March 24th

Very nice ! Thank you
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volc March 25th

awesome,man,sample but execelent
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Aarthi March 26th

Hey Collis! Hats off dude!! I just flaunted my advanced glow effects psd to my colleagues….:P lol
Tremendous work indeed, though I did a bit of tweaking n turned on the outer glow effects for the sparkle dots around d text n it is really cool now.
Great work n keep it coming!!
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Garry March 27th

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uwdgzCbuFgs/ScynY1cg0XI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/G08-2hu4uFo/s1600-h/noviceglow.png
this is mine!
didn’t know what to add for text so just wrote novice glow fx.
had a hard time doing the stimulate brush part before resetting my brushes.
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Sokobanja March 31st

I like it
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Sokobanja Apartmani March 31st

It is very good
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Gatty April 1st

it’s really awesome
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rick April 1st

its great! thanks a lot
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Sereni-T April 6th

Thx for the tut
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TmaxX April 7th

here is mine , i love it
http://stor.thetmyster.com//files/1/TXAM.png
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phongvan00 April 7th

Won!!! Great ^^ tutorial ^^
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atom April 19th

thank you
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Junjun April 19th

Thanks!!this is very helpful fo me
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Junjun April 19th

Tnx for this tutorial. its very useful
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Jason April 19th

Thank you so much! I work for a non-profit. Even I don’t get paid to put together the publicity. But lessons like these allow groups like ours to go beyond run of the mill/boring publicity. This is a wonderful service. Despite my lack of familiarity with Photoshop your site and Google help me get the job done and done in style! Thanks for your work. Obrigado!
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John Brekman April 21st

Hi
the line with the pen tool doesnt work for me
Im not sure why but it just comes up as dots of each part of the pen tool outline.
Whys that ?
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sheen wells April 25th

cool
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Gyrel Dagooc April 26th

Glow effect is one of elements I want to learn. Thanks!
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dexzone April 28th

NIce tutorial
Huge thanks.
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oleGey April 29th

Thank you !!!
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susan May 2nd

Thank you so much I’ve been looking for this,as for the first attempt i consider myself “not bad” and i used the same caption in my work,lol..
Once again thank you so much,Good job,God Bless YOU.
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Yisrael May 5th

Is it at all possible if u can do this on an video tutorial here on Psd? I am new to this and some of the things that have been spoken of to use within Photoshop I am not familiar with using and I really like this effect
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zeldir May 15th

nice, but i couldn make the clouds :S photoshop didnt let me :S
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DJ NATUREAL May 19th

simply amazing! I love it! ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE! haha
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web design leeds May 20th

Very nice indeed!.. thanks alot for this.
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andrhella May 25th

Amazing!!! Awesome!!!! Tks
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amtitude May 25th

thank you!!!
this is kinda save my life xD
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flashfs May 27th

I like your explanations. I’d appreciate if you provide more insight about what the styles are doing. But great effect and tutorial
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diens May 27th

there are some missing tutorial from Step 4 to step 5
i don’t know how to make the layer could be like step 5 image
please help me
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Laughtr May 29th

I really need help on step 5. i dont know how to make it into a “S”. Plus when i do it, it deletes little parts of my picture…
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shah June 2nd

i try this v gud tutorials gr8 work man thx a lott thx thx so much
god bless u
any one can hep me how can i make perfect design in photoshop
thx so much
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ranjith June 4th

amazingwork!!!!!!!!!!!!
thakuuuuuuuuu 4 sharing.
i done tis work
thakuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Tavis Glover June 8th

Cool Tut, I’ve never really used the pen tool to create strokes like that. I like the glow effects too.
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GIVISION | Jiri Mocicka June 10th

Supper Easy!
Nice technique
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Sokobanja June 14th

Very Good Examples
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Sokobanja Smestaj June 14th

Really great tutorial ! Thanks
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ev149 June 14th

Awesome. It may be an old tutorial, but it looks great in new projects! This is something that I’ll definitely use often, and it might even replace my fractal renderer!
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surendar June 16th

thanks sir…………..
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tiff June 18th

very good tutorial
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Soko Banja June 21st

I like these tutorials! great! great! great!
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shaft June 21st

very beneficial, thank you so much!
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Tod June 26th

Good Stuff Thanks a lot
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Samson Paul July 1st

I had gone through your tutorials. It was fantastic a have no words to describe it.Thanks very much for the this tutorials page.I think people who cannot afford to to join classes can do so in this tutorial.
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Mee July 4th

I can’t undestand step 9!!!
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yamin July 14th

Nice post.
I like Design…
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1. shamseer July 15th
  
  ok
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Theo July 15th

Wow i m so excited!!! I cant wait to make it
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Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing July 20th

Very informative post indeed!! Glow effects are no-doubt popular these days. But I believe that you should be very careful with the color blending and shades. The texture of your background is equally important. Though professional can try these glow and faded effects, the layman should go easy with it. Nevertheless, designing is all about creativity and it is always worth taking a risk!
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vozER July 21st

Guys with the “sketch-problem”: Image -> Mode -> RGB . When it asks should it be flattened, press: “Don’t flatten” Tha-da
-vozER
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vozER July 21st

Here’s what I got
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3307/underpressure.jpg
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Naeem July 24th

great job thanks for sharing.
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MadMetroid July 25th

Awesome O.o
Thanks for the tutorial, was very useful…
Cya!!
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venaketesh July 28th

THANKS…
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Jai August 12th

Another top tut, I’m never 100% happy with my own versions but I’m learning all the time, so thank you.
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VROD August 13th

I LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS
I CANT SEEM TO BE ABLE TO MAKE MY GLOW LINES. I MAKE THE PATH WITH MY PEN TOOL AND Y SELECT BRUSH FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS AND WHEN I SWITCH TO PEN TOOL AGAIN AND RIGHT CLICK THE DISPLAY BOX THAT COMES UP IS GRAYED OUT SO I CANT SELECT STROKE PATH. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG
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Jon August 15th

For those HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE STROKE, SEE STEP 4 ON HERE: http://www.ekhoury.com/2008/01/08/abstract-shine-animation-with-photoshop-and-imageready/
I had the wrong one clicked and is why it wouldnt workfor me.
Someone posted that link earlier in this thread and its how i figured out what i was doing wrong. Thanks personthatposted it!!!
those havin problems with the tapered ends, did u make sure you clicked “simulate pressure”when thestroke option box cameup?
Sorry bout typing badly sprained hand!
great tutorial!!
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1. ansm November 11th
  
  How do i put the pen tool in path mode, and i got stuck in step 7, after creating the carve line in step 5( with fill 0) when I create a new layer in step 6 the shape just becomes invisible, was that supposed to happen? Anyway, and then I follow the step 7 and the Stroke Path is unclick able. What did I do wrong? I am using cs2.
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Banja Vrujci August 18th

Thank you very much for this
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kammu August 24th

thank you..this is madness..thanks again
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Luca August 28th

gr8 tut xD
10x
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ariston servisi August 28th

nice movement i think i like ariston service
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Deran September 4th

Thanks a lot for this.. I just installed PS and did this tutorial.. being a writer, have never touched PS but after doing this, I feel like I can do anything.. and the way you have explained things is so easy and detailed so even a newbie like me could do it..thanks a lot and keep up the good work!!
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InT September 6th

Very nice tutorial ! Congrats for it !
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spidey September 7th

hi! i would like to try this out. but i dont know how to make the first step! hehe can someone please assist me?? tnx =’)
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Web Design Mumbai September 8th

Very nice tutorial – Best wishes to all designers who visited this … hope you learn something from this tutorial.
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rbts September 8th

Nice guidence provided for all the designers . Great post.
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vaibhav September 8th

great tutorial . I am definitely going to try this.
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Internet Tomorrow September 9th

This guy seems to be a gem!! Thanks for sharing mate.
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Privatni smestaj Sokobanja September 9th

great glow effects. i love them
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Tesa Jewell September 12th

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us and doing it so clearly. This is a fun technique and I can see so many possibilities of what you can do with it. Thank You!
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Zajecar September 22nd

Auuuuu, great effects, thanks
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Fionnasparkles September 23rd

Thank you so much!
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alex September 24th

why my photoshop can’t use sketch effect???
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sigharbi September 24th

thank you collis
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robins September 29th

awesome…thank u collis
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Smestaj Sokobanja September 30th

To conclude. Do you have copies of photos or not, in general I like the show because it was something special!!!!
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Drew October 2nd

Just got around to this… didn’t know about the pen -> stroke technique. thanks a bunch.
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Rancid. October 3rd

Fantastic Tutorial, worked out fine
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deWeb October 8th

i just used this tut to make this. very useful. thanks!
adam
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Colin October 10th

Great Tutorial! Easy to follow!
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monty October 12th

i got some problems after step 6 as soon as i chose hard brush then switch back to pen tool then right click and stroke path i cant get that option its just inactive can some 1 help me wuth this
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xosel October 13th

good tutorial!!!!
but.. I have any problems
and.. I can’t extract the sample..
I have downlodaded it and say “CRC Error ” when I try to extract it..
COuld you give me an example please?? o.o
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kithsiri lokuge October 14th

i am Kithsiri Lokuge
very nice tutorials. very useful. thanks!
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srikanth October 19th

excellent,awesome no words to describe
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musc October 19th

mmmmmmmmm i love this tut
very nice
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Get your mind Right October 21st

I want to be as great as this soon
And your tutorials on your site is definately getting me there
Thanks so very much
WOW
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Julie October 22nd

Thank you! I learned!
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Soko Banja October 22nd

Great tutorial
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ben October 22nd

great tips
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Titolambada October 29th

Thanks so much. Very detail tutor and clearly defined. It is not just what you are giving to us. It also opens other possibility that we all can based on your tut.
Thanks again
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Jesal November 5th

very cool … nice useful tips
thanks for sharing
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gosha November 5th

Really enjoyed this one
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JRH November 14th

Love your work!
This has come in very handy!!
Much appreciated
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Me November 14th

When you add the glows, what settings did you use for the outer glow? You give the settings for the drop shadow and say that the inner glow (I think) is white. If I just add an outer glow without messing with the settings, it doesn’t turn out right. I messed with them for a while but can’t get it to look right.
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Me November 14th

In the above comment i meant color overlay instead of inner glow, sorry ^_^
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Ninja November 18th

Very nice!!
Great to see it being used on iTunes too! (Look at the compilations page)
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psd to xhtml November 19th

While searching on the net, i found this great tutorial, its is very helpfull
Thanks
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Joanna November 20th

thank you very much for this tutorial. very useful
Thanks again
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BuyungR November 29th

this is im looking for….thanks for sharing:)
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pinky December 4th

awesome!!!!!! love it!!! great work there!!! thankzzz!!! looking for more!!!!
cheers!!!
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s December 8th

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and Art.
Great work !!
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Sachin Barman December 8th

Hi,,
I am so thankful of yours. it’s amazing.
Thanks for sharing to people.
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MooNu December 9th

i hope it’s ok if I am translating this tutorial on the site i put on URL. I am linking to your site. (At the Tutoriale Photoshop Category, the Tutoriale Incepatori Forum topic named [Trandus]Glow Efect )
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Logo Police December 11th

Do you think this logo’s designer read this tutorial?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2809801&id=154607648732
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Krusevac December 12th

Very useful post, thanks for the things we helped
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Jimmy Grippo December 16th

Great tutorial! The only issue I had with was getting the “stroke path” option to stop being greyed out. My end result turned out great! Thank you for all the screenshots. That made all the difference. Please keep the tutorials coming!
This will make all the difference for the custom wordpress theme I am workong on.
Thanks,
~Jimmy Grippo~
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Oliver December 28th

This was much fun, thank you!
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Hitesh December 29th

Hi, I can’t get text underneath the glows, can u tell me how, the layer is under but text still on top, also is it usual I can’t edit the glows again with pen tool?
thanks
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Imran December 31st

if any body have this GeometricSlab fonts than please share with me as well my email address is imransherwany@hotmail.com
very nice and superb efforts…
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Jonel January 4th

Woah that was incredible!!!!!! nice i wanna learn this. Do you need to down load the program to do this or can u make one like this off the photoshop.com? if need to download can i get link?
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1. Emilio407tv January 7th
  
  You need to download Photoshop CS4 which current cost is in the 300-700 IDK exact. There are ways to get it for free but that is Google and YouTubes’ job to help you. USE YOUR RESOURCES!!! Unfortunately I cannot guide you one where to get it because it is illegal.
  **You are at your own risk**I am not responsible for your actions and or consequences**
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ivafuji January 18th

oh my god! oh man?? thanx.
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Mattias January 24th

Really sweet stuff.. thanx 4 sharing!
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David January 24th

Thanks so much that is one of the best glows I’ve done!
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1. Guest February 4th
  
  Thank you very much for the great work and the share. Thank you!
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Joost Bedet February 1st

The bit with the ‘Chrome’ filter did not work out too well for me… how do you apply this? do you make a new layer?
for the rest: the tutorial still came out great, and i love how you can easily tranfer this process onto different illustrations!
thank you!
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Michael February 4th

I am having a problem with the drop shadow. I created a test case illustrating the following. When i set the drop-shadow setting manually using the same settings in the sample psd it come out much lighter than if i copy and paste the layer style done by Collis.
See here:
Sample.psd
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Leah February 5th

loved the tutorial, but i couldn’t figure out how to make steps 14-16 the same as yours.
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Fraz February 6th

Very nice tutorial. I am very admired and I learn many things psd.tutsplus your awesome!!!!!! l
Thanks
Fraz
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