Preserved Topic: neon glow...

i would appreciate it if someone helped me with a tiny problem:
i need to draw a neon that glows, and i haven't succedeed in creating a realistic one yet
help...

arlechinu

Draw something. Copy the layer and Gauss it. Play with blending modes, maybe copy and Gauss some more.

Umm... something like that.

Like Neon lamps? Or just glowing gas?

Lights are easy enough if you know a good glass tut start there and intensify the light towards the middle sections. The glow comes from there too. Dodge layers for the highlights and gradients might be your best bet. Gaussian blur a layer or more of single lines in a hue close to, but brighter than the one you're using

thought i'd have a go as well

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well not to good - but cool!



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shii, that reminds me of the lightsabers, i think from the sig forum.

A quick way is to stroke a path repeatedly, starting with a wide, diffused, low opacity air brush, and progressively lightening the foreground color, reducing brush diameter and increasng brush opacity. You don't get the sense of the glass "envelope" or tube, but it gives a pretty okay sense of the glow, without too much work:

~Vp~

A major part of doing neon thingies is the choice of font -
pick something that's kind of "tubular", or lends itself
via PS smoothing to looking so... this is a prototype I did
last month -



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look at tutorial sites - lots of neon tutorials out there.

My eyes!

The 'Radial Blur : Zoom, 100' combined with some 'Render : Clouds' and many different layers and blanding modes can produce a nice effect too

my sig for example

This is done kinda like Steve`s except, I used a soft brush and the dodge tool.

Mr.Max - I was half expecting a "'s Diner" stuck on the end of that

geez, you'd think y'all have used this PS program thingie more than once..

nice display

It happens. I think it's a lot of fun to see what people do with various techniques. How they apply them, ideas, variations and such. Well, not just a given technique, but different techinques to achieve the same/similiar effect. For example, Steve was the extreme blacksheep by using Paths (that rebel).


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I, Warjournal, Techincal-Slop Author Extraordinaire.

i tried some of your tips, and i came up with this... www.chez.com/arlechinu
see 4 yourselves
and tell me your comments regarding everything you see on my site (at least what's on it now)

ps: how do i get to post my sig in here?
God, i'm such a newbie!

[This message has been edited by arlechinu (edited 06-04-2001).]

arlechinu: regarding sigs, click the UBB phrase in the message reply page to see the differences between UBB and html. To post an image you would use brackets [ and ], and use img and /img.

So you started off this thread calling it a "tiny little problem" and look at where it took us! No problem is too tiny around here. Interesting stuff going on on your page, and the neon glow is pretty effective.

WJ: baaaaa

thanx everyone 4 the help!
steve, I checked out you site and it's really cool...




http://www.chez.com/arlechinu/mysig.jpg

As usual, I was thinking today.

Do a circular grad, Curve it, Define Brush, stroke Path. I'll see about playing with this later.


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I, Warjournal, Techincal-Slop Author Extraordinaire.

Took a few minutes of playing, but I finally got going in the right direction.

I started a new doc 50x50 and did a circular grad with black in the center (black = opaque ; white = trans). Then I ran Curves -- grabbed the middle and moved it up so there was a tiny black dot in the middle and lots of white on the outside. Select all, define brush. Time to paint.

Neon Strokes

The spacing took a bit of tweaking. Across the top the spacing is set to 10%. The doodle along the bottom was without spacing and draggin the mouse at various speeds.

So, once you get a brush you are happy with, paint and path stroke all you want. Prolly not greatest for neon, but might have uses somewhere. Could still use some tweaking here and there, but I'm happy.

play.fiddle.learn


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Sweet! I like the rounded beginnings and ending - feels right for the technology of glass tubing bent in a heat process. Nice solution!

Thanks.

Looking to be another long night. Daughter's cousin is spending the night and I'm sure some of you folks know how it goes when the girls get together for a slumber party. No rest for the wicked. So, I thought I would take a break from that situation and comment on an observation while I was playing earlier.

I didn't exactly run curves on the circular grad -- I used an adjustment layer. Go back, tweak, define, etc. Just plain easier that way. Thing is, after tweaking adjustment layer, it's active and can't define brush. I actually panicked the first time. I thought that if I made the underlying circular grad layer active, define brush would work on just that layer -- which would mean copy merged or flatten or something long-winded. Got lucky. Define works on merged. whew. But, the layer with the circular grad has to be the active layer.

Did you catch all that?

Well, back to the melee. Hopefully everybody here survives the night.