****Need some help with neon****

diegocs

i want to add some neon style graphics, but have no experience making them on photoshop, does anybody know how to make them?

JohnPapiomitis

i think theres some sort of neon filter or effect, but a colored lower opacity shape with that same color outer glow should give you a neon effect

diegocs

yeah, i've done that actually , but i thought there would be a better and easier way to do it, with a better final outcome

floydianspiral

@diegocs Not sure EXACTLY what you mean by neon - here's my game which might/might not be what your looking for : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zeke-in-orbit/id447645400?ls=1&mt=8

If it is...it's very simple: make white lines in illustrator, then copy and paste the white line again and apply a gaussian blur of 4-8 pixels to that line, leaving the original one solid. Then when you import it into gamesalad, color it how you like and select "additive" blend under the graphics options...a trick to make it faster is to have an all black background in illustrator to work with the white lines and then click the eyeball to unsee it before exporting...hope this helps.

diegocs

@floydianspiral, i'll give it a try, thanks for the advice

JohnPapiomitis

I thought you only had photoshop sorry dont know about all the features there, but if you have illustrator you can go into the graphic styles and theres a bunch of different glows and neon effects

diegocs

Yeah sorry john , i forgot to memtioon that, i'll try both suggestions tommorow