How do I achieve this glow effect?

[Rusty Fox]

I've attached a picture. How would I achieve the effect of the border on that image i.e. the outer and inner glow but multicoloured>

[loukash]

This nice old tutorial may give you a couple of ideas: 

 

[Ldina]

@Rusty Fox The attached Designer v2.6.2 file comes fairly close, but it took a bit of playing around to get it this close.

There are probably better, easier ways to do this. I decided to create four separate layers, plus a black background. I had to play with gradients, some clipping layers, blur FX, etc, but I was trying to come close to replicating what you posted. Hope this offers some possibilities and ideas for experimentation. The video @loukash posted also has some excellent tips. I think James Ritson may have a video on this too. There is no shortage of videos on YouTube that will also be helpful.

The Layers, top to bottom in the layer stack, are as follows:

• Inside glow layer at top of the stack
• Brilliant white glow immediately behind
• More diffuse white glow.
• Outer colored glow.
• Black rectangle background.

Glow Effect.afdesign

[Rusty Fox]

2 minutes ago, Ldina said:

@Rusty Fox The attached Designer v2.6.2 file comes fairly close, but it took a bit of playing around to get it this close.

There are probably better, easier ways to do this. I decided to create four separate layers, plus a black background. I had to play with gradients, some clipping layers, blur FX, etc, but I was trying to come close to replicating what you posted. Hope this offers some possibilities and ideas for experimentation. The video @loukash posted also has some excellent tips. I think James Ritson may have a video on this too. There is no shortage or videos on YouTube that will also be helpful.

The Layers, top to bottom in the layer stack, are as follows:

• Inside glow layer at top of the stack
• Brilliant white glow immediately behind
• More diffuse white glow.
• Outer colored glow.
• Black rectangle background.

Glow Effect.afdesign 75.18 kB · 0 downloads

Wow, didn't expect someone to do it for me! That's very kind thank you.

[Ldina]

@Rusty Fox You're welcome. 

Sometimes, sharing an actual file is much easier and better than trying to explain something, plus you get to play around with it, see the layer structure, effects, etc. I wanted to see how to replicate that effect myself, so I was 90% of the way there already. Hope it is instructive and helpful. I had fun figuring it out. 

[Ldina]

@Rusty Fox...BTW, my avatar is a "Rusty Fox". 😆 

[Rusty Fox]

16 hours ago, Ldina said:

@Rusty Fox...BTW, my avatar is a "Rusty Fox". 😆 

Haha true!!