A client asked for a neon logo and I had no idea how to make it. Thanks to you, the logo looks fantastic. This was easy to follow and I had a few laughs along the way. Thank you!
I literally laughed out loud at the "Simply resize...and it remembers to fuckin work!" You've always been a top design role model in my mind. Keep being you because YOU are AWESOME.
I've known Illustrator forever but you NEVER stop learning and your Videos are awesome but it's the "Glow Crazy" with a chuckle that made me subscribe because you're awesome 😂
Looks good 👍🏼 To keep it completely editable and save yourself time with all the copy/paste you can also have one single “Yo” Then click on the text and open the appearance panel. Duplicate the white fill layer several times and add the desired blur to each fill. That way you can also save the effect as a style and add it to anything with a click.
dude honestly you swearing caught me off guard, first time ive ever heard you drop an f bomb. but for real though, ive been lurking around your channel watching all your tutorials, and theyre awesome, keep up the great work!
Why not just use the appearance panel instead of using symbols? I followed your example, but used the appearance panel with 5 white fills, each with a different gaussian blur, just like you did. It worked fine - it was completely editable and it was just one object. It just seems easier to use the appearance panel than to use 5 individual instances of a symbol. Just for kicks, I also did the gradient overlay as part of the text appearance in the appearance panel. I put a gradient fill as the top fill on the text, set its opacity to overlay and then gave that fill an offset effect of 150px (anything should work as long as it is greater than the largest gaussian blur used). It seems to work well. A side note - I also tried other blending modes on that fill - Color Burn, Color Dodge and Color all gave cool effects. Of course, those effects look better or worse, depending on the colors chosen for the gradient. OOPS - I just noticed that another user already suggested using the appearance panel. Oh well, I'll just leave my comment up anyway
Thanks you for this! I needed to make neon lines and I ended up using the appearance panel with 5 strokes on one object to create the effect after reading your suggestion.
"give it a second to load, and then it remembers to fucken work. hooray!" - def one of the funniest and more entertaining tutorials i've seen. great, btw!
I'm stuck, when i go to click opacity to check the overlay option its grayed out, then i tried selecting everything including the text and the gradient the neon text don't show at all, I'm just seeing a black background
you got me at "And it remembered to fuckin work" LOL that definatly made me chuckle today thank you for that i attest we can all appreciate Adobe and its many frustrating flaws specially when we use it for work on a daily basis Cheers brother!!!!
Sweating after this video you went so fast lol but it worked! Had to pause many times and Google some things because my screen didn't have certain panels pop up likes yours.
Hi, I have been making some pretty cool stuff following your tutorial. Now, how do I export it as png? Black background can be hidden, prior exporting is done, without affecting anything, but that gradient layer which elevates the whole neon glow to a new level is what I have troubles with? Also, I followed these instructions - group everything and change the blend mode to screen, but nothing happened. To be clear I click properties, after the grouping, look for appearance menu and then click opacity, from where I change from overlay to screen. Thank you and cheers!
Hey Chaiya, one of the first tips in the video linked here demonstrates how to copy appearance effects to other objects in Illustrator: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q0QOqJvhRm4.html
Great video, many thanks! I am trying to figure out how to cut out the text with blur from the background. So that I can print the logo on glass for example. Do you know if this is possible? And how? :D
I would try adding the colour directly on to the text at the beginning (rather than using a block colour overlay), as this will retain the transparency in the design. You could also try a similar approach with Photoshop if you would like a bit more realism. If that sounds good, consider checking out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K3RKDwZTqdA.html
Group everything including the background and change the blending mode (under opacity options) to Screen. You can now add a photo behind for example, and the neon effect will appear on top 👍
How do you make the background not adherent to the gradient? So that just the text is affected by the gradient? Having a bit of trouble (Illustrator 2020)
If you “Group” everything together, and change the blending mode to something like “Screen” the background will essentially disappear. Is that what you meant? 🙂
The first time I did this it worked perfectly, but the second time I was editing an adobe template. I added the new text, and repeated the process but this time when I added the first 0.5 blur it blurred a lot straight away, the final result is very pixelated. Any idea what's gone wrong?
Likely different document or object sizes. On a smaller document 0.5 might be way too much, so 0.1 might be more suitable, and if the document is massive (eg. signage) you may want to go higher than 0.5 for the first blur 👍🙂
When I add a red colored rectangle and change the opacity to overlay, it just makes it a brighter white glow. I'm trying to get a red glow... What am I doing wrong?
Make sure the overlay layer is on top of everything else, and try changing the colours to something vibrant and see if it works. Or you can change the colour of the letters themselves, as the overlay trick is a quick way to try out different colours 👍
How do I get this effect without backgrounds? For example in cyberunk theme games you need to make a lot of assets with neon effects. I want to get the action to set to make a neon effect and change colour too. Man adobe being such big industry tool makes it an unintuitive way of making things.
