Inner Glows

[GaryK]

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

[GaryK]

NEVERMIND

I guess Glow means Glow

[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.

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.

[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

[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 !