Create a neon effect

Give your portraits a shot of electricity by creating glowing neon-like lines in Photoshop Elements

Some Photoshop `special effects' can look a little generic, particularly if, like filters, they're simply slapped on top of an image. One way to make effects stand out from the crowd is to have them interact with the figures or objects in your image, like these fantastic glowing lines. Curved lines aren't the easiest of shapes to make. Unfortunately, Photoshop Elements lacks the Pen tool found in its bigger brother Photoshop CC, so to get the curling, tapered line we'll need to use a combination of tools and filters, then to make the line glow we'll add a Layer Style effect. For simplicity, we'll make the lines against a plain background. Once we have a couple of different lines, we can begin adding them to the portrait. We won't need…

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