How to Add a Glow - Part 1 | Layer Styles

Glow effect is another option that we can see among Layer Styles. There are two Glow options called Inner Glow and Outer Glow. We'll see the both glow effects one by one. I will tell you about the Inner Glow from this post. Before that if you did not read the first tutorial of  Layer Styles (How to Add a Drop Shadow) click here to read it. It will help you to understand basic things about Layer Styles. Now we'll move on to the Inner Glow.

Inner Glow
Open a new document using your appropriate settings.
Go to the type tool and type anything you like.

Select the layer that you need to apply Inner Glow.
Click the Layer Styles icon and select Inner Glow option.

Then you will come up with a page like below

Set the Blend Mode as "Normal".
Now try to change the color, Distance and Size of the inner Glow.
You can add a dotted effect by increasing the Noise value.

Try to add a Gradient Instead of a single color.

Now click on the Gradient color bar to change colors.

If you like you can use a preset or you can make your own.
You can adjust the Glow colors by clicking the No. 2 color boxes and the opacity by clicking the No.1 color boxes.
Click on the area which I have marked yellow to add new color boxes.
That's all! now try to add a Inner Glow for different objects like images..etc.
Hit the Save button if you need to save it as a preset.

That's all. Now try different blend modes and add an Inner Glow to different objects like images.. etc.

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