Image Editor Tips - Glowing Text

There are several ways of making things glow using the Image Editor. Here are a couple:


Glowing Text

  1. I started with a completely black image and used the Text tool to draw white text for the glow.
  2. To make the glow bigger than the text, I then used the Erode filter to enlarge the white area.
  3. Next, I coloured the glow yellow using the Paint Bucket tool and blurred it with the Gaussian Blur filter.
  4. Finally I used the Text tool again to paint the black text.

This one is simply orange text painted on a black background, blurred, and made brighter with the Ajdust RGB filter.

To set it on fire, I just used the Distort/Marble filter.

Here's another way:

  1. I started with a completely black image and used the Text tool to draw green text in a "Pixel" font
  2. I used the Gaussian Blur filter to blur the text
  3. To make the centre brighter, I then used the Unsharp Mask filter.

Yet another way:

  1. I started with a completely black image and used the Oval tool to draw an orange oval.
  2. I then used the Gaussian Blur filter to blur the oval.
  3. Next, I created the black text with the Text tool
  4. Finally I used the Shadow filter to make the darker glow around the text