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Issue: Create Magical Glowing Text Effect using the Inner Glow function (figure no.1)

figure no.1
To create Text On Fire Effect simply follow these steps:
- Create 300 x 200 new black empty image (Click on File -> New menu or Ctrl+n).
- Choose the Text Tool -
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In order to draw a text, point the mouse on the starting point of the text, press and hold down one the mouse's button . Next, drag the mouse's pointer to the spot where you wish the text to end and release the button. After selecting the desires location, the Add Text dialog box will appear
- On the "Add Text" dialog box type in the desired text. To get a good effect choose big font size (72 or higher). Select the "Colors & Style" Tab and set the color to Dark Gray (Red=63, Green=63, Blue=63). Click "OK" to finish (figure no.2).
 figure no.2
- Click on the Effects -> Light -> Inner Glow� menu to open the Inner Glow Effect dialog box.
- Click the effect color box and set Sky Blue color (Red=88, Green=186, Blue=255).
- Set the Opacity slider value to 20, the Intensity to 80 (figure no.3) and click OK to finish (figure no.4).
 figure no.3
 figure no.3
- Click on the Effects -> More -> Inline� menu to open the Inline Effect dialog box.
- Set the Level slider value to 2, the Opacity slider value to 60, the Color to White (figure no.5) and click OK to finish (figure no.6).
 figure no.5
 figure no.6
- Click the Colors -> Brightness/Contrast� menu to open the Brightness/Contrast dialog box.
- Set the Brightness slider value to -50 and click OK.
- Right click on the text and select "Merge Object with Parent Layer" from the pop up menu in order to rasterize and merge the text with the parent layer.
- Click on the Effects -> Motion�-> Zoom Blur� menu to open the Zoom Blur dialog box.
- In the Zoom Blur dialog box click the Advance button and fill in the data as shown in figure no.7. Click ok to confirm when finished (figure no.8)
 figure no.7
 figure no.8
- Click on the Effects -> Magical�-> Star Dust� menu to open the Star Dust dialog box.
- In the Star Dust dialog box click the Advance button and fill in the data as shown in figure no.9. Click ok to confirm when finished.
 figure no.9
- Click on the Effects -> Magical�-> Stars� menu to open the Stars dialog box.
- In the Stars dialog box click the Advance button and fill in the data as shown in figure no.10. Click ok to confirm when finished.
 figure no.10
- Finally you should get the Magical Effect (figure no. 11).
 figure no.11
- [Optional] For a Orange Shade set the back color to Orange on step 3.
 figure no.12
- [Optional] For a Green Shade set the back color to Green on step 3.
 figure no.13
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