I literally laughed out loud at the "Simply resize...and it remembers to fuckin work!" You've always been a top design role model in my mind. Keep being you because YOU are AWESOME.
A client asked for a neon logo and I had no idea how to make it. Thanks to you, the logo looks fantastic. This was easy to follow and I had a few laughs along the way. Thank you!
I've known Illustrator forever but you NEVER stop learning and your Videos are awesome but it's the "Glow Crazy" with a chuckle that made me subscribe because you're awesome 😂
dude honestly you swearing caught me off guard, first time ive ever heard you drop an f bomb. but for real though, ive been lurking around your channel watching all your tutorials, and theyre awesome, keep up the great work!
Why not just use the appearance panel instead of using symbols? I followed your example, but used the appearance panel with 5 white fills, each with a different gaussian blur, just like you did. It worked fine - it was completely editable and it was just one object. It just seems easier to use the appearance panel than to use 5 individual instances of a symbol. Just for kicks, I also did the gradient overlay as part of the text appearance in the appearance panel. I put a gradient fill as the top fill on the text, set its opacity to overlay and then gave that fill an offset effect of 150px (anything should work as long as it is greater than the largest gaussian blur used). It seems to work well. A side note - I also tried other blending modes on that fill - Color Burn, Color Dodge and Color all gave cool effects. Of course, those effects look better or worse, depending on the colors chosen for the gradient. OOPS - I just noticed that another user already suggested using the appearance panel. Oh well, I'll just leave my comment up anyway
Thanks you for this! I needed to make neon lines and I ended up using the appearance panel with 5 strokes on one object to create the effect after reading your suggestion.
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Thank you Dan, you've been an amazing instructor making complex concepts so simple to learn with hint a of fun!
Looks good 👍🏼 To keep it completely editable and save yourself time with all the copy/paste you can also have one single “Yo” Then click on the text and open the appearance panel. Duplicate the white fill layer several times and add the desired blur to each fill. That way you can also save the effect as a style and add it to anything with a click.
I'm stuck, when i go to click opacity to check the overlay option its grayed out, then i tried selecting everything including the text and the gradient the neon text don't show at all, I'm just seeing a black background
Sweating after this video you went so fast lol but it worked! Had to pause many times and Google some things because my screen didn't have certain panels pop up likes yours.
Hi, I have been making some pretty cool stuff following your tutorial. Now, how do I export it as png? Black background can be hidden, prior exporting is done, without affecting anything, but that gradient layer which elevates the whole neon glow to a new level is what I have troubles with? Also, I followed these instructions - group everything and change the blend mode to screen, but nothing happened. To be clear I click properties, after the grouping, look for appearance menu and then click opacity, from where I change from overlay to screen. Thank you and cheers!
How do I get this effect without backgrounds? For example in cyberunk theme games you need to make a lot of assets with neon effects. I want to get the action to set to make a neon effect and change colour too. Man adobe being such big industry tool makes it an unintuitive way of making things.
I try it. At first it didn't work 'cause I was in CMYK mode and now is mid working, I can see the neon effect but doesn't follow up the outline of the text. I simply see the gradient circle. Idk why
Hey Ayman, for some reason Illustrator adds clipping to raster effects like blur, so the blur effect is cut short with hard edges. Increasing the clipping to the 720px maximum, increases the area where that clipping will occur. If it still clips even with the maximum value, reduce the size of your graphic, and once you’re happy select Expand Appearance and then scale the graphic back up 👍
@@ForeverDansky So you mean that the gaussian blur does not have a well enough gradient transition? And doing a raster effect brings up a more smooth transition?
@@aymanraouf1820 Illustrator cuts off part of the Gaussian Blur effect by default for some reason, so increasing the 'clipping' means that the blur effect can extend further outwards.
Hey Chaiya, one of the first tips in the video linked here demonstrates how to copy appearance effects to other objects in Illustrator: ruclips.net/video/Q0QOqJvhRm4/видео.html
Make sure the overlay layer is on top of everything else, and try changing the colours to something vibrant and see if it works. Or you can change the colour of the letters themselves, as the overlay trick is a quick way to try out different colours 👍
Great video, many thanks! I am trying to figure out how to cut out the text with blur from the background. So that I can print the logo on glass for example. Do you know if this is possible? And how? :D
I would try adding the colour directly on to the text at the beginning (rather than using a block colour overlay), as this will retain the transparency in the design. You could also try a similar approach with Photoshop if you would like a bit more realism. If that sounds good, consider checking out this video: ruclips.net/video/K3RKDwZTqdA/видео.html
How do you make the background not adherent to the gradient? So that just the text is affected by the gradient? Having a bit of trouble (Illustrator 2020)
If you “Group” everything together, and change the blending mode to something like “Screen” the background will essentially disappear. Is that what you meant? 🙂
Group everything including the background and change the blending mode (under opacity options) to Screen. You can now add a photo behind for example, and the neon effect will appear on top 👍
The first time I did this it worked perfectly, but the second time I was editing an adobe template. I added the new text, and repeated the process but this time when I added the first 0.5 blur it blurred a lot straight away, the final result is very pixelated. Any idea what's gone wrong?
Likely different document or object sizes. On a smaller document 0.5 might be way too much, so 0.1 might be more suitable, and if the document is massive (eg. signage) you may want to go higher than 0.5 for the first blur 👍🙂
When I add a red colored rectangle and change the opacity to overlay, it just makes it a brighter white glow. I'm trying to get a red glow... What am I doing wrong?
"give it a second to load, and then it remembers to fucken work. hooray!" - def one of the funniest and more entertaining tutorials i've seen. great, btw!
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Also, to remove the black background, simply group everything together and changing the blending mode to 'Screen' 😊
this dont work for me
Doesn't work
i tryed...but if i choose screen instead overlay it does not work
The result is beautiful, but I need only the letters without the black background and this method does not work :(
In order for this to work you have to have another white layer outside and below the group.
I literally laughed out loud at the "Simply resize...and it remembers to fuckin work!" You've always been a top design role model in my mind. Keep being you because YOU are AWESOME.
egg fuckin ZACTLY - I'm sold - well played sir
A client asked for a neon logo and I had no idea how to make it. Thanks to you, the logo looks fantastic. This was easy to follow and I had a few laughs along the way. Thank you!
That’s amazing to hear Suzanne, and thank you so much for the $10! 😊
the tutorial was so entertaining I forgot that I was trying to learn! I wish all tutorials were this fun.
Aha awesome, glad you enjoyed it Stephanie!
I've known Illustrator forever but you NEVER stop learning and your Videos are awesome but it's the "Glow Crazy" with a chuckle that made me subscribe because you're awesome 😂
dude honestly you swearing caught me off guard, first time ive ever heard you drop an f bomb.
but for real though, ive been lurking around your channel watching all your tutorials, and theyre awesome, keep up the great work!
Aha yea that may be a first for me on this channel! 😋 Also, thanks for checking out my videos, hope they're helpful 👊
Thank you!! with some little adjustments I was able to apply this neon effect to my logo and it looks amazing!! I really appreciate your help 🙏🙏
Awesome! You're very welcome 😊
Why not just use the appearance panel instead of using symbols? I followed your example, but used the appearance panel with 5 white fills, each with a different gaussian blur, just like you did. It worked fine - it was completely editable and it was just one object. It just seems easier to use the appearance panel than to use 5 individual instances of a symbol.
Just for kicks, I also did the gradient overlay as part of the text appearance in the appearance panel. I put a gradient fill as the top fill on the text, set its opacity to overlay and then gave that fill an offset effect of 150px (anything should work as long as it is greater than the largest gaussian blur used). It seems to work well. A side note - I also tried other blending modes on that fill - Color Burn, Color Dodge and Color all gave cool effects. Of course, those effects look better or worse, depending on the colors chosen for the gradient.
OOPS - I just noticed that another user already suggested using the appearance panel. Oh well, I'll just leave my comment up anyway
Thanks you for this! I needed to make neon lines and I ended up using the appearance panel with 5 strokes on one object to create the effect after reading your suggestion.
Thank you Dan, you've been an amazing instructor making complex concepts so simple to learn with hint a of fun!
Hey that's amazing to hear Faiq, thank you so much! :)
GENIUS!!! Doing a happy dance right now
dude this so amazing! Your tutorial is so useful and so easy. Thanks you.
You're welcome! 👊😀
This is super refreshing, normally i'd just go with a inner/outer glow effect, time to experiment with blurs 😌
Aha yea, it's a useful technique 👍 Mixing the two techniques together could be interesting!
“..and then it remembers to fuckin’ work” - total respect for that 😆
Haha... totally off the cuff that one! 😅
@@ForeverDansky It's gold! Totally killed me 🤣👍
YES! thank you for the fit of laughter and for so eloquently putting all of our frustrations in one sentence. Thanks for the tutorial!
LOL @ 1:23… typical Adobe. Too funny, good video.
Aha thank you! 😂👊
Looks good 👍🏼 To keep it completely editable and save yourself time with all the copy/paste you can also have one single “Yo” Then click on the text and open the appearance panel. Duplicate the white fill layer several times and add the desired blur to each fill. That way you can also save the effect as a style and add it to anything with a click.
I knew there was this workaround. Thx!
@@fraicheness my pleasure 😇
For those who doesn't work, change your document colour from CMYK to RGB.
THANK YOU! This is exactly the step I needed. The last step in the video was not working and redid the glow part twice thinking I made a mistake.
Rgb ftw
I appreciate this work!
thank you very much
You're welcome 🙂
"and then it remembers to fucking work"..... every designer's dialogue with illustrator every day.
After raster effect setting. I decrease the size of text but no glow comes in my design like your come. Can you please tell me how to fix it?
Thank you
You’re welcome Ghafour ☺️
Overlay doesn't work for changing the colour for me.
I'm stuck, when i go to click opacity to check the overlay option its grayed out, then i tried selecting everything including the text and the gradient the neon text don't show at all, I'm just seeing a black background
Sweating after this video you went so fast lol but it worked! Had to pause many times and Google some things because my screen didn't have certain panels pop up likes yours.
it went smoothly until the part to increase resolution to 300 dpi.. My Illustrator crashed. I hate my PC
I am from Bangladesh. Love your work sir.
Thanks so much!
kaj hoyche bro apnr? amr rasterization por glow ta r ashena size komanur poro
@@Sultanul amr 720 pt ashe kina px ashe na??
Hi, I have been making some pretty cool stuff following your tutorial. Now, how do I export it as png? Black background can be hidden, prior exporting is done, without affecting anything, but that gradient layer which elevates the whole neon glow to a new level is what I have troubles with? Also, I followed these instructions - group everything and change the blend mode to screen, but nothing happened. To be clear I click properties, after the grouping, look for appearance menu and then click opacity, from where I change from overlay to screen. Thank you and cheers!
I hope this works for cmyk format, I need it for a poster 😢❤
how do i get only the letters to be colored so i can copy and paste them to other backgrounds?
I can't figure out how to remove the black background
Group everything, position over your image/photo, and then change the Blending Mode to something like Lighten or Screen 👍
Wasted 2 mins successfully 🤝🏻
after the rasterization process if i decrease the size it doesn't work i mean that glow dont show.
Listened this for speed 0.5 for a moment and he said "give it a second to load and then it remembers to f@cking work hooray!". 💀💀💀deceased💀💀💀
Thanks for this vidéo i havé à question that works with antihéros fonts?
Is this achievable on an iPad?
The colour doesn’t change for me? It just adds an extra layer of white blur :/
Mine doesn't work past the document raster effect settings - do you know why?
That symbol thing.... Amazing!!! 😍
Thanks Jaye! Yea they’re very useful! 👍☺️
Can we not use BLEND tool effect, that way it would be all vector, as I believe Blur effect is a raster effect
For sure! Honestly, theres a bunch of ways to do glow effects 😊
Is it good for fabric printing?
How do I get this effect without backgrounds? For example in cyberunk theme games you need to make a lot of assets with neon effects. I want to get the action to set to make a neon effect and change colour too. Man adobe being such big industry tool makes it an unintuitive way of making things.
hahahahahaha 1:21
"Then it remembers to f'n work". Best comment ever!
Aha cheers Chris 😂
I try it. At first it didn't work 'cause I was in CMYK mode and now is mid working, I can see the neon effect but doesn't follow up the outline of the text. I simply see the gradient circle. Idk why
I love you ❤❤
Can this work on things I did with the pen tool?
Have been looking for a long time on how to do this neon effect easily. You are amazing. Take love.
Awesome! Glad I could help!
Thank you sir!! Helped a bunch :)
You're welcome! 🙂
I didnt quite understand why you did the Rasterize effect?
Hey Ayman, for some reason Illustrator adds clipping to raster effects like blur, so the blur effect is cut short with hard edges. Increasing the clipping to the 720px maximum, increases the area where that clipping will occur. If it still clips even with the maximum value, reduce the size of your graphic, and once you’re happy select Expand Appearance and then scale the graphic back up 👍
@@ForeverDansky So you mean that the gaussian blur does not have a well enough gradient transition? And doing a raster effect brings up a more smooth transition?
@@aymanraouf1820 Illustrator cuts off part of the Gaussian Blur effect by default for some reason, so increasing the 'clipping' means that the blur effect can extend further outwards.
by far the best channel to learn Illustrator from!
Actually with copy and paste process, can we simply do it all making multiple fill set up in appearance along with blur effect?
Hey Chaiya, one of the first tips in the video linked here demonstrates how to copy appearance effects to other objects in Illustrator: ruclips.net/video/Q0QOqJvhRm4/видео.html
Awesome tutorial!! How do I save just the text? So, if I want a png of just the neon text in the colors (not just white) ?
copy paste and add new values to the new text box?
Mine won't change color. I have a green and purple background, but it's still glowing white.
I genuinely love you 🤣🤣🤣 This was great. Thanks!
Aha thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
when I click "overlay" it doesn´t work...what can I do?
Make sure the overlay layer is on top of everything else, and try changing the colours to something vibrant and see if it works. Or you can change the colour of the letters themselves, as the overlay trick is a quick way to try out different colours 👍
Overlay isn't changing the color. I'm intermediate at best in illustrator, so I'm probably doing something wrong.
Hey Audrey, try the 'Color' blending mode at the bottom too. Depending on your design, different blending modes can work better than others 😊
Great video, many thanks! I am trying to figure out how to cut out the text with blur from the background. So that I can print the logo on glass for example. Do you know if this is possible? And how? :D
I would try adding the colour directly on to the text at the beginning (rather than using a block colour overlay), as this will retain the transparency in the design. You could also try a similar approach with Photoshop if you would like a bit more realism.
If that sounds good, consider checking out this video: ruclips.net/video/K3RKDwZTqdA/видео.html
You're funny :)
How do you make the background not adherent to the gradient? So that just the text is affected by the gradient? Having a bit of trouble (Illustrator 2020)
If you “Group” everything together, and change the blending mode to something like “Screen” the background will essentially disappear. Is that what you meant? 🙂
@@ForeverDansky yes, exactly! Thank you so much for the help!
Note to self on Gaussian Blur:
0.5, 3, 10, 25, 50
THAT LOOKS AMAZING WHAT THE HELL
Aaaand what are we supposed to do if we dont want the black background to show up?
Group everything including the background and change the blending mode (under opacity options) to Screen. You can now add a photo behind for example, and the neon effect will appear on top 👍
I have never thought about trying it this way. Thanks for the new perspective. I'm gonna try this out tomorrow 😌👍🏾
You’re welcome 😊
"And then it remembers to fuckin' work." LOL
Haha 😜
The first time I did this it worked perfectly, but the second time I was editing an adobe template. I added the new text, and repeated the process but this time when I added the first 0.5 blur it blurred a lot straight away, the final result is very pixelated. Any idea what's gone wrong?
Likely different document or object sizes. On a smaller document 0.5 might be way too much, so 0.1 might be more suitable, and if the document is massive (eg. signage) you may want to go higher than 0.5 for the first blur 👍🙂
Awesome sauce! Miss all the Illustrator tutes you used to do --> :( token sad face….
Hey thanks! Yea me too, going back to teaching a lot more Illustrator stuff 👍😊
hey how to turn logo into neon logo effects?
For some reason when I put overlay they colour does not show up on the glow
Thanks!
Amazing...... I like it ! We R........Designer...
Hi, in the raster effects step, my illustrator only have color model of CMYK, Grayscale, Bitmap, what should i do?
When I add a red colored rectangle and change the opacity to overlay, it just makes it a brighter white glow. I'm trying to get a red glow... What am I doing wrong?
Scratch that. Solved it. It doesnt work in CMYK mode properly, but worked fine in RGB
Try the ‘Color’ blending mode, or change the colour of the lettering itself 👍
I like it💜
I manifest him to be mine in next few years
My favorite tutorial yet. Now if only I can remember how to f'n work. 🤣
Haha cheers Gary! 😂👊
1:18 “Then it remembers to fucking work” HAHAHAHAH
When following the steps my text turns into an image and I can no longer edit the text in the last step. Is there a way to avoid this?
Bro I don´t get it, it just doesn´t want to work for me. The black background from the beginning just doesn´t want to change
Will it only work if I choose the RBG color mode?
Yea should work. There's just more colours in the RGB spectrum, so the end result often looks more vibrant.
Document Raster Effect Sating
Can't find rgb color
and there are only 3 option :-CMYK, Grayscale and bitmap
Plz solve my Problem
so how would add neon effect without having a black background??
Group everything together and change the blending mode to something like 'Screen'.
@@ForeverDansky thanks for your response ✨
I followed along at the same pace and I feel great
Great
awesome ..Thank's mstr Dansky
You’re welcome! 🙌
My illustrator software crashed
youre a genius to figure out the workarounds to the damn bugs
Aha thanks! Truth be told, I do love a good problem to solve! 😁
Dan, that was an hilarious tutorial, and it made my day.
Aha awesome! That's great to hear Cricri 😂👊
@@ForeverDansky Yep. Crap evening turned into smiles and giggles. And I learned a neon glow in Illustrator: bonus.
Hello! I'e got a wuestion. by the time I want to cgange the opacity drom normal in overlay, it does not let me to select anything, what can I do?
"give it a second to load, and then it remembers to fucken work. hooray!" - def one of the funniest and more entertaining tutorials i've seen. great, btw!
idk what i did wrong but the gradient step did not effect the text it only changed the background
Hi Dan, I cant seem to get the overlay part to work but the rest of it looks good. Any idea what is wrong?
Figured it out, I was in CMYK mode but in RGB mode this works. Not sure why 😂
I am in RGB it still does not work@@lucaswoodbridge
Nice!
What's the pros and cons of doing this on illustrator rather than photoshop?
when i change opacity to overlay it moves behind the black BG what can be the issue here ?
Change the color profile to RGB instead of CMYK
I watched this on 0.5 speed to be able to keep up without pausing and it was absolutely batshit😂😂 super helpful though!!!
mines set to mm insteada of px for the raster effect setting, how do u change this?
also you state the gaussian blur for everyone of the chocies except the last one and I can make out what you choose
I did everything the same, and for some reason my overlay is not working.
I did it again thesame way. And still not working👎
🧡🧡
BRO WHEN EBER I MOVE THE LETTER THE BLUR IS LEFT BEHINDE
bro i was doing a project for school you wasted my time so hard fml
Perhaps I can still help, what are you trying to achieve?