Glowing Rings

[damian88]

Hi ive been trying to create a fluro looking rings like the ones in the pic but finding it impossible with my knowledge of photoshop.

I was wondering whether someone could help me produce the rings as cimilar as the ones in the pic

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v43/d ... SCombo.jpg

[C@L]

hmmm

what i would do it

-Select the circular marquee tool
-Make you circular selection and fill with white (#FFFFFF)
-With the selection stil up go to Select > Modify > Contract > 1px then ok, now hit th delete button.
-With a 1 px circular shape done go to layer > Layer Style > Outer Glow > choose a blue/green colour then set the outer glow style to color burn (if not color burn try some of the othrs ) and you should have the basics done

If you want to add the bits in the middle then all you will have to do is select a 1px brush and draw the rest (make sure your still on the layer with the circle as you want the same effects to happen to this aswell)

hope that helps

[damian88]

Yeah thats the way ive been trying to do it but the colours arent strong enough.

It doesnt give the same fluorescent glowing colour as the one in the pic.

Also i used a black background and it just made the rings colour a shade of black rather than the white i filed it with. EDIT: i tried fixing this by duplicating the layers but then i end up with too thick of a ring >_>

[Elder-Bunny]

Try this.

Elliptical Marquee tool set on fixed aspect ratio of 1 / 1 and select your first ring area. go to select > modify > border and set it to a thickness of 1. Paint in the ring with a color (the inner color of the ring). Then go to the layers panel (bottom right) and right click the layer with just the ring on it (it has to be transparent completely exept for the ring) and go to Blending Options. Then click the text that says outer glow. Now screw around with color, opacity, spread and size. Try a tealish color with a spread of 0 and a size of 5 with 100% opacity. Now repeat this making either a larger circle built around the original one or a smaller circle built inside the original one. I hope that helped.

[Excruciating]

If that Didn't work, I'll try this tonight. Sounds like a challenge.

[Sightless_Mystic]

Try this:

-Use the Elliptical Marquee tool to draw a circle on blank layer
-Flood Fill the selection with a color (try not to use white, that way you can colorize the ring later on)
-Go to Selection > Modify > Contract, then contract the selection by however many pixels you want
-Delete the inside of the circle to make a ring
-Colorize the ring which ever color you want (Ctrl + U)
-Duplicate the ring layer and set the blending mode of the new layer to Linear Dodge
-Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, blur the new ring layer by about 4 (or more if you need to)
-Keep duplicating the blurred ring layer until its how you need it

It should turn out something like this (remember, you can keep duplicating the blurred ring layer until the color is how you need it):


Hope that helps!!