The whole idea of these two layer styles it to add a shadow so the lights will look more realistic and part of the image, and the same is for the outer glow. Again use the image below to get the right values. Select the lights layer and go to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow. After that select all lights and merge them into one layer only ( Layer>Merge Layers). You can use smaller lights if you want make them 2 colums instead of one like I did.

Paste the light spot in your design and then start filling the letters with the lights. The image I used is courtesy of Shutterstock and you can find it here. To create the light effects and give a more realistic feel I used a stock photo from where I copy just one light spot. You can save that for future projects as well. Here is the effect you will get by using the layer style values from the previous steps. Now let's add a stroke, again follow the values below and for the color, I used #6f0022. In case your text is not the sort of dark pink I'm using you can use Color Overlay to change that. Again follow the values below in order to achieve the same effect, or you can tweak them to see how that it would behave. Let's use Bevel and Emboss to add some nice 3D effect to our text. Again use the values below to get the effect. Now to add some depth to the text use Inner Shadow first. Use the values below for the Drop Shadow. With the text layer selected go to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow. The word I added is Abduzeedo and I used Arial Black for the font. After that add a text in a vertical order. Make sure that the background is in black. Open Photoshop and create a new document, the size I'm using is 1113x1440 pixels.

The whole process won't take you more than 45 minutes and the level of this tutorial is in my opinion easy, but it require some attention to the details. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a very nice light effect using basic filters, layer style, blend modes and some stock photos.

I loved that effect and thought it would be a good exercise trying to do that in Photoshop. What really caught my attention was the effect applied in the text, sort of those old signage that casinos used to have. A few weeks ago while walking on the streets of NYC, I saw this big billboard of a movie called Burlesque ( ).

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