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Animated Neon Sign

Posted by admin under Digital Art on June 26th, 2007.

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In this tutorial I will be teaching you how to create a neon logo like this:

Animated Neon Sign

Create a new document and make the background black. To start out write out in text whatever you want you neon sign to say. I used the Font Eurose.

Now Ctrl – click your text layer. Then make your text layer invisible, by clicking the eye button in your layers palette. Now while you still have you selection going make a new layer. Then go to Edit> Stroke. Stroke: 3 Color: OfC9FF. You should have something like this now:

Okay so now go to blending options and apply these settings in the Outer Glow area:

Now you should have something like this:

So now we want to add a bright spot to give it more of a neon feel. So Ctrl – Click your Original text layer (the one we hid by pushing the eye button). Then create a new layer. Go Edit> Stroke> and Stroke with 1 px WHITE.

You should have something like this now:

Now duplicate both of your layers by dragging them over the new layer button. Then select your duplicated layers and hit Ctrl – E. This should merge them together. Now go to Hue/Saturation and insert these settings:

Then go to your blending options and insert these settings for your Outer glow area:

Now you should have something like this:

Okay so now we want to animate our neon sign. So start by opening your animation window. Then on the first layer hide the black merged layer (the layer that should be on top). Then make a new slide. Hide the blue neon sign layers (they unmerged 3 px and 1px stroke layers), and unhide the black merged layer. Set the timing on both of them to 5 seconds.

Now you should have something like this:

Congratulations! You have finished my tut on how to create a neon sign! Great job. I hope you enjoyed my tut.

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