Inner Glows

[GaryK]

Is anybody else having trouble with inner glows???
The only one that will work for me is "fire"

[GaryK]

NEVERMIND:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I guess Glow means Glow:D :D

[AngelicKim]

Gary, too funny. I tried all mine and they worked. They just gave different effects to the inner edge of the photos except the fire one. It covered the whole photo.

[GaryK]

Kim

I was trying to get a black inner glow on a white square.:rolleyes:

So live and learn.. I could only go so dark with a coloured square before it would not show.

I did manage to get Jodis black inner glow to work so it solved my dilemma.

This should make partially up for the lack of the Global Light button being missing.

[AngelicKim]

I have been reading the different post on PSE5 and when someone ask about something I haven't used yet I try it out so I know where it is and how to use it. It is really helping me learn it.:D

[GaryK]

Kim

Kind of strange. I've been messing with the glows.

What I have done is made a white background and copied a selection onto another layer. (white on white)

If you apply any glow to the smaller box layer except "fire" it doesn't show even if you go in and change the colour in the layer styles fiddle box.

But if I use Jodis Black inner glow or her dark blue outer glow I can change the colour to anything I want.

Of course I have no idea on how she created these. so to me this is just one of those things:D

[Wendy]

Hi Gary ...

Jodi's are layer styles created in Photoshop ... :)

Wendy

[Pauline]

Hmmmmmmmm, Gary this is interesting because just yesterday I was helping my daughter and chose inner glow and changed the colour to black because what I really wanted was a shadow. It didn't work. I tried something else because I thought I was doing something wrong and THAT didn't work either. She is on their old slow computer and I figured it was just the computer causing the problems! So......maybe there is a problem. If I have time later I guess I will have to investigate on my own computer. I really haven't had much time to look at pse 5.

[Jodi Frye]

Ya it's because the inner glows are created with ' screen' blend mode so black or darker color will not show up....the reasons why my inner glows...the dark ones work is because I used 'normal' blend mode for those.


The workaround to create dark inner glows...or any other color for that matter;

Ctrl-click the object layer you wish to put an inner glow in so that it puts a marching ants selection around your object. Create a new blank layer above the object layer and go to edit>stroke(outline). Choose a color and set it to ' Center ', normal blend mode...the pixel amount totally depends on image size and resolution so you'll have to experiment with this a bit. I'll give you a starting point of ' 20 ' pixels. Click OK.

Deselect...then go to filter>blur>gaussian blur> eyeball this ...move slider to desired blur...only pay attention to what's going on ' inside ' the object below.

Then reselect so that the marching ants are showing the original stroke selection then ' select inverse ' and ' delete'....this will delete the blur outside the original stroke selection so that all that's left is an inner blur ( glow ;) )

[Jodi Frye]

...I meant to add...you can also go through the blend modes on this new glow layer for more options ...try ' multiply ' on darker colors and try ' color ' blend mode...or screen :) on others..heck, try them all !

[Pauline]

Jodi, so glad you popped in to answer. I never even thought about the blending mode when I did this. DUH!

Using a stroke and blurring is an excellent idea! Why didn't I think of that? :confused: Ah well live and learn!

[Jodi Frye]

Pauline, ya there isn't too much you can't do with Elements when it comes to ' workarounds '. By the way...for ' Outer Glows ' do the same thing except delete the inside instead of outside :) ...but of course that is probably an obvious statement at this point ;)

PS, tell Sam that she is amazing !

[Pauline]

Jodi, I just passed on the praise and the tip to her. It's getting to the point where when I tell her something she just nods her head and doesn't look at me confused. :D I tend to solve these kinds of problems by just painting with the brush. Your way is a lot easier and less time consuming.

[GaryK]

Pauline

As I mentioned you can just use Jodis Black inner glow. The nice thing about that is, once that style is applied you can change the settings in the dialogue box.

[Pauline]

Gary, I don't have Jodi's styles installed on their computer. There is just too much on there as it is. After we get them a new one I will for sure put them on though. I think Sam has enough to play with now! (she's making ribbon)

[GaryK]

Ok.. nevermind:) just a thought.

[ndmpatriot]

I'm sorry. I'm confused. How do I delete the 'inside' or the 'outside'? I went through all the steps they all take place on the new layer correct? I did 'delete' and it did nothing.

[GaryK]

Hi

Welcome .. I missed it in the other thread.:)

You can either click on the little flower/sunburst on the layer pallet beside the thumbnail and make changes in the popup box that opens, or just drag the sunburst to the trashcan to delete the layer style or just left click the layer that the sunburst is on and choose claer layer style from there.

Hope this helps.:)

[Inspeqtor]

Gary... have you noticed how close you are to hitting the 5,000 mark in postings? :D :eek: :D

EDIT: You are at 4,992 as of this posting!

[Wendy]

Gary ...

Hey ... won't be long now :) :)

Wendy

[GaryK]

I'm going to hide out until Christmas. :D

I knew I was getting close, but hadn't payed particular attention.

[SenorSlick]

Jodi. Wow your gallery is so pretty. Where did you obtain the matting and those excellent frames. The combined effects are just wonderful.

[Jodi Frye]

Hey Senor..thanks for looking at my 'old ' gallery...yes, it has not been updated in a year <my bad>...where I got the frames ? Found them under my pillow and forced them through my zip drive and then jambed them into the program with a wire coat hanger . ;) Elements choked a bit but after I reset the prefs it worked fine and I was able to use the frames. Sorry, ...sometimes I don't know when to stop...I made them in Elements.:D

[Wendy]

Hi Jodi ...

I love it when you do that .... I get the vision of you with a coat hanger :)

Any news on the new disk yet ????

Wendy

[Jodi Frye]

Wendy, ya, cut myself trying as well... disc is getting near but you know how X_Mas stuff kind of slowed creative time down a bit here...among the usual other things but the team is working on it. This team does have an ' i ' in it ;)

[Bayla]

forced them through my zip drive and then jambed them into the program with a wire coat hanger


My, those hangers do come in useful:D

For a long time I kept a thin wire coat hanger next to my old computer for the CD drive which kept getting stuck - the only to open it was to wiggle the coat hanger in the little hole at the front!

Bayla

[Wendy]

Jodi ...

Oh my ... guess you are the one man team :eek: :D :D

Wendy

[Jodi Frye]

hum, no, that would be a one ' woman ' team. ;)

[Wendy]

Jodi ....


:o :D :D :D

Wendy