The GRADIENT BLUR Trick for Creating GLOWING Text Effects in Photoshop

This Photoshop glow effect has a cool retro vibe with its colourful gradient halos and blurry outlines, especially when combined with grainy textures to enhance the low-fi look. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make it in Photoshop and provide links to the free assets you need from my Spoon Graphics website.
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00:00 Introduction
00:17 Create a new document
00:39 Add your text
00:54 Blur effect
01:45 Adding colour
02:22 Gradient map trick
03:04 Alternative blur effects
03:26 Add textures
04:43 Editing the Smart Object
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[@GraceEvangelist]

Awesome tutorial! This is my favorite Spoon Graphics video in a long while! Thanks!

[@KevinLosani]

Babe, wake up! Another spooner tutorial

[@truesoundsofliberty]

Awesome effect! Thanks for the video

[@NikolaBrdjovic]

Thank you man! Great as always!

[@akeel_1701]

Awesome tutorial as always

[@brendangoodenough173]

As always Chris, nice one!...

[@estevamgomes8872]

Incredible tutorial

[@Bziiit.]

This kind of tutorials :o amazing

[@quacquac_quacquac]

Love it 🥰🥰

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AMAZING TUTORIAL!!! I LOVE IT

[@bensadizahra790]

man! you are my fav 💖

[@maikolverasson1735]

Okay that was amazing

[@Wellykproductions]

Oh yes looking for new Thumbnail ideas thanks .mate 😊

[@czeshrawks]

nice one...!

[@TrutherTalk]

Thank you ;-)

[@spoongraphics]

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► Download my FREE Duotone Gradient Presets - spoon.graphics/2vR5owo
► Download my FREE Dirty Surface Textures - spoon.graphics/3brJkOt
► Download my FREE Film Dust Textures - spoon.graphics/2KNkDeN

[@aepbuzz]

your account is so helpful

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GOOD

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[@haenahsgh]

Is there a way to save the text effect with transparent background?

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Hi, please the floral and botanical freebies are they vectors or jpgs

[@Ewok8080]

Will be playing about with this later.

[@spoongraphics]

Have fun!

[@narddog3717]

When I insert the surface texture and paste it on the background layer, it automatically creates a new layer with the colors inverted.

[@Alien-Row]

Next video come next month see you guys

[@raynekenzler]

Automatically all text are blur. Help me please

[@guilledevYT]

Yes bro, mee too, have you found a solution??

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long time frinds

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