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Colorful Glow Text Effects

Apply Bevel and Emboss:

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Settings for Bevel and Emboss>Contour:

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Add Satin:

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Apply Gradient Overlay:

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Add Stroke:

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
We’ve got the next result:
Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color (Opacity – 50%).

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Use this brush to represent many dots.
Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.
Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Make a copy of the last made layer:
Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Make one more copy of the last made layer and choose again Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to turn around its axe the copy’s layer. Set the Blending mode for this layer to Normal.
Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Make a copy of the last made layer, selecting here the next filter: Filter>Blur>Radial blur

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
We’ve got the next result:
Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.
Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Next we need to represent a highlight on the text, choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shape as shown.

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Now press Ctrl button and click on the text’s layer in Laters panel. In this case we’ll get the next selection.

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Select the highlight’s layer and click on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask.

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and change the Blending mode for this layer to Linear Light.

Create a glowing text effects form a scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3
The final result!

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Download free Layered PSD file.

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