In this lesson I'm going to show you how to add a glow effect around an object.
So I have this woman here jumping that you can find under the project's six folder in the photos.
This is actually going to be used for a project later on in the blending modes section.
But it's this jumping woman jumping file and you know how to make selections by now.
So if you want to follow along go ahead and make this selection and mask her out so to add a glow effect
just double click your layer and go down to outer glow.
Now this is going to add the default glow which is a white glow.
Let me click okay and then add a black background to our project so we can see what this glow is actually
doing.
You're starting to see a little bit of a glow.
Let me zoom in here so you can kind of get a better idea.
Let's change that glow to more of like a gold.
So we're going to change that color.
So just going into the outer glow effects you could change the blend mode opacity.
Now we haven't covered blend modes yet but this is basically how it appears in combination to the background.
So play around with those or just wait until he go over that in the blend mode sections so you can actually
understand a little bit better the size the spread.
So the size is really going to increase sort of the blurriness of this and then the spread makes it
sort of a bigger or smaller glow.
Size you can think of more of like how how far the glow kind of shines versus the spread is the actual
size of the the bulb or the or the glow behind it.
Just play around with these and hopefully you can kind of start to see what that looks like.
So you also have this option for technique which softer or precise precise is going to follow every
single edge a little bit more precisely and then softer is more of just a general glow a little bit
smoother.
And that might look a little bit better.
So there you have a pretty cool glow right there.
And then you can kind of add this style say you're creating this sort of poster for you know some sort
of sports athletic quick equipment company.
We're going to add this text jump.
Cool right.
And then we're going to copy this outer glow copy layer style from that woman jumping to our jump text
paste.
Oh yeah that's pretty cool.
So now we have this sort of matching style for this graphic.
So that's how you add an outer glow to any image or text layer.
Thanks so much for watching and we'll see in the next lesson.