How To Create A Light Painting Text Effect In Adobe Photoshop

You have seen many texts with glowing or lightning effects. Other than normally designed texts, they are the most appealing to you. Have you ever tried to develop this effect in your text?

In this blog, you will discover how lightning effects are easily created with the help of Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is known as a raster graphics editor, which is a computer program that lets users create and edit images and then save them in one of many formats.

Enter Text

In this step add any text you want here I am writing simple “Blog”. Text color White and background dark black and size is around 180px.

Don’t use simple text like arial try to use any another text like Austhina Brush Calligraphy or great day personal use font.

Here I am have Austhina Brush font.

Click on font and decrease opacity 100% to 5% and now your font looks like above image.

Path Making

Make simple text path using simple pen tool see below image to understand more blue show us a path. After making this type of path now hide our text layer. For hide click on 👁 symbol to hide text layer. You can see this symbol on side of text layer.

Now add a new layer and go to paths. If there are no any path option see on your desktop then go to windows > and click on paths.

Now here you will see layer like “WORK PATH”. Click on path option and now press “B” to open brush tool.

Now click on the brush tool see below image brush tool look like given icon.

Click upper top brush and you will see below option.

Now here you need to download one brush and import in your photoshop click on below link to download free photoshop brush and after installing brush you will see this brush in your brush list. Here we need to do some settings like brush size and another some settings.

Select below given selection brush into your photoshop and after selection of brush now click on brush settings.

Now go to brush tip shape and decrease size to 24 or 25 and spacing 1%. After click on transfer and select option Pen pressure.

Now make sure you have selected new layer if not then select your new layer and now come again to brush panel where right click on Work path and you will see “stroke path” option.

Click on stroke path and after you will see one popup there. Select brush option and don’t forget to select simulate pressure check box to check and click ok.

And you see this type of font on your screen.

With pressing Ctrl + J make duplicate of layer.

Now select your this new text layer and double click on the layer to open Layer style and do below changes.

After doing that now hold Ctrl key and go to layer panel and click on your old layer to select layer and you see dotted line on your font (Not try on new copy layer).

Now with press Shift + F5 you will see below popup.

And with pressing Ctrl + D deselect your font. Now go to the Filter panel on top and do below changes.

Filter > Blur > Gaussion Blur

Radius around 138.2px

And now last we do to create some highlights or glow on font.

So now make a new layer on all top layers in layer panel, change normal to overlay.

Select Soft Round brush and make sure your color was white and now give some highlight on your fonts corner.

But if we make perfect line with pen tool and if we give perfect glow with then your font’s look like below image.

Conclusion:

This is an easy-to-learn process with a basic introduction. Try and design some lightning text in Photoshop that can attract your users in a few seconds.