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Pink Neon Text Effects

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Written by Chetankumar Akarte

Friday, 28 September 2007

Article Index
Pink Neon Text Effects
New Photoshop Document
Add outer/inner Glow Layer Style
Bevel and Emboss Layer Style
Little more finishing
Final Touch
Download PSD

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Step 1: Open A New Photoshop Document

The first thing we need to do is open a new document, so let's do that quickly using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+N (Win) / Command+N (Mac). This brings up Photoshop's New Document dialog box. Choose whichever size you like. I'm going to use the preset size of 300x100 and Used #000000(black) as a background color, as below:

Step 2: Add Your Text To The Document

Grab your Type tool from the Tools palette, or press T to quickly access it with the keyboard shortcut:

Then, with the Type tool selected, go up to the Options Bar at the top of the screen and select your font. I'm going to use Lucida Calligraphy, Italic with size 40px. You can choose whichever font you like from the ones you have installed on your system. A larger, thicker font tends to work best for this effect: