How to Make a Neon Glow Effect in Illustrator

Learn how to make a neon text effect in this Illustrator tutorial. We use gaussian blur and multiple fills to create a neon glow effect that you can apply to any text or object in Adobe Illustrator!

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[primaldiscoft.djmichaelv]

I have watched 300 videos like this for 10 years and this is THE BEST NEON GLOW TUTORIAL there is. All of the other ones have you overlapping layer after layer and you can never make it into one thing that adjusts. This is remarkable training. Bless you for sharing this. wow.

[DarrenHigginbottom]

Absolutely magic tutorial. Very well delivered, and PRACTICAL for commercial designers producing proper artwork under time constratints.

Saves all that hideous and unnecessary pissing about in Photoshop, which you shouldn't actually ever consider for type related projects anyway.
Its incredible how many people actually will do though.

Thank you, and well done. Keep fighting the good fight.

[danivicario]

This is really beautiful, full of possibilities, and your voice is super clear for non-natives. Thank you very much.

[westvandal]

Very happy to come across this tutorial . It was concise and well presented!! Thank you very much!!!!

[SoheilFalahi]

That was awesome, quick helpful, direct, and the best way to mak the Neon effect which is editable. Thanks men

[hassaantariq]

Brother Bless you this is the best.. I am a champion of NEON thanks to you 😀

[mariadasilva]

Amazing! Thank you so much for making this tutorial!

[connorkearns]

Glad I looked this up, I was putting my graphics into Photoshop and making pseudo glowing effects with brushes. It helped me conceptualize me designs but it didn’t look very crisp.

[FiveXDS]

Great tutorial. Love to see artists sharing their techniques, especially when they're efficient. Graphics artists of the future are going to be insane. BTW **To retain editability to the path. Just drag the fill color into the stroke color slot after you apply the graphic style or drag the graphic style into the stroke color slot. You can also duplicate any layers in the Appearance panel by clicking the [+] button ('Duplicate Selected Item') in the bottom right of the panel or by dragging the layer down to the [+] button in the bottom right of the Appearance panel. Cheers :D

[wavebomb]

You saved my LIFE!! I was having a hard time with 300ppi. And also awesome way to use it multiple times. Thank tou SO much!! ❤

[AmjadAli-wfwh]

Amazing skill to make people learn there are few people like you make people to understand as clear as people understand thanks a lot deat

[ashimzuhdan]

Thank you so much bro! This is life-saving! I subscribed. :)

[gabrielarosa]

Thank you for sharing this. It was very helpful!

[brunoalexlopes]

very useful, the best tutorial I found on YOUTUBE

[whispersofacrazymother]

thank you SO this is an awesome tutorial

[busyman]

amazing detailed tutorial...saved for latter time.... already your subscriber

[nekogaming]

works absolutely well, just i don't understand that i dont have the rgb in raster effect?

[nastyboyfps]

Great video! I was curious how to add a drop shadow to the neon afterwards, thank you.

[csenge]

Is there a way to create ombre colours? 😊

[adamborresen]

I can't add effects to fills in CS5. Is it not available in that edition? I can work around using layers instead but then of course the text isn't editable whitout headache.