Give ANYTHING a Realistic NEON GLOW in Illustrator

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[ForeverDansky]

Also, to remove the black background, simply group everything together and changing the blending mode to 'Screen' 😊

[suzannerinoldo]

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!

[AverageHomeBoy]

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.

[byAlexandraG]

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 😂

[phoebus]

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.

[kalydoscop]

This is super refreshing, normally i'd just go with a inner/outer glow effect, time to experiment with blurs 😌

[stephanie]

the tutorial was so entertaining I forgot that I was trying to learn! I wish all tutorials were this fun.

[azuremv]

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!

[flaviabarar]

GENIUS!!! Doing a happy dance right now

[amywarren]

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

[testing]

youre a genius to figure out the workarounds to the damn bugs

[enamulhaque]

Have been looking for a long time on how to do this neon effect easily. You are amazing. Take love.

[jorgequeipul]

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 🙏🙏

[lefthandstan]

I followed along at the same pace and I feel great

[siryessirnosir]

Thanks for this, works great in CMYK as well!

[Thegreatercheese]

Overlay doesn't work for changing the colour for me.

[brucekennedy]

“..and then it remembers to fuckin’ work” - total respect for that 😆

[iqrajaved]

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?

[jonathanformlyrics]

For those who doesn't work, change your document colour from CMYK to RGB.

[saveme]

"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!