outer glow blending?

[Deadparrot]

I've been looking at a lot of tutorials that have glowing elements in them, and in a lot of them they mention an outer glow blending mode. I can't seem to find one, just the outer glow layer style. Is this a cs only mode? If so, does anyone know how to replicate the effect?

[mattyboy]

Hi there,
Photoshop CS doesn't come equipped with an outer glow blending mode, but it does allow you to add an outer glow layer style (with way more control than Elements) and then blend the effect into the image. So effectively, you could have some text set to the multiply blending mode, and then an outer glow attached to the text set to a blend mode of, say, exclusion.

Photoshop Elements doesn't allow you to blend layer effects in the same way as CS does, in fact it doesn't allow you seperate an effect from the layer, so I'm not sure if blending just the effect is possible!

Feel free to post a link with the step included and I'll take a closer look?

Hope that makes things a little clearer?

[Deadparrot]

Thank you. I was playing around with drop shadows yesterday and happened to doubl-click on the little fx icon on the layers pallett, and up popped a menu. Never knew this existed...

Might be able to get the effect I want by duplicating the image. Use outer glow on one and adjust the colour and size of the glow from that fx-menu, and use blur on the other layer. I'll play around with it and see what I get. :)

[riversidema]

In the subscribers section, videos, there is a tutorial dated June 20, 2008 where Dave Cross does a pretty neat effect that produces an outter glow. If you are a member check it out. If not, let me know and I'll try to sum it up.

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