Sometimes we can just sit there and gaze at a finished project but the pizazz just isn’t there. You can liven up that project by intensifying the image or text with a glowing effect. It may just be the right thing for you. As you can imagine there are many different methods to make your text and illustrations glow.  So we would like to share with you 10 tutorials that will walk you through their own steps to achieve some amazing effects that will give that ‘wow’ factor to your own design.

If you are in the mood to experiment, you should check out a few if you like.  You will be using techniques that include gradients, textures, some photo manipulation and more. You can mix and match steps from different tutorials listed below to come up with something totally unique and amazing.

Advanced Glowing Effect

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Colorful Glowing Text Effects

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Colorful Glowing Text Effects

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Create Cool Neon Effects

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Create an Amazing Ad with Glowing Effects in Photoshop

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Glowing Lines

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