Glow in Paint Shop Pro

Paint Shop Pro text effect (Version 5 and above)

Most of the steps in this tip are similar to the ones used in the previous tip for creating neon sign effect.

Step 1
Start Paint Shop Pro amd open a new image 300 X 150 pixels with transparent background.

Step 2
Using the fill tool , color the background black (R=0, G=0, B=0).

Step 3
Now add a new layer by clicking on Layer - New Layer. Name this layer glow and click "OK".

Step 4
Make green as your foreground color (R=0, G=255, B=0 or #00FF00) and black as background.

Step 5
Select the text tool , and click on the image.
From the fonts selection list, pick out BankGothic or any similar font.
Set the size to 72 and style to bold. Type your text and click "OK".
Your image should look something like:

Step 6
Interchange your foreground and background colors by clicking on the small arrows (the ones I have marked with blue in the image below) in the color palette so that your foreground color turns black and background becomes green.

Step 7
Use the Chisel effect (Image - Effects - Chisel...) and in the pop up window selected "Background color" and set size to 10. Click "OK" to continue.

Step 8
The image should now resemble:

Deselect the image using the key combination Control - D. (you can alternatively click on Selections - Select none).

Step 9
Apply the Gaussian Blur filter (Image - Blur - gaussian blur...) and set the radius to 3.00. This determines the amount of glow desired.
Click on "Ok".

Step 10
Add another layer and name it top.
Change your foreground color to light black (#000000) and using the text tool , put the same text with the same style (refer step 5 above) again on the image.
Place the new text right on top of the old.
Align the text if required so that it is directly on top of the blurred text.
Deselect the image.
Here is the result:

Step 11
Your final image should have three layers. Using the layer opacity slider you can change the opacity levels of "glow" layer to adjust the glow amount.