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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." (Sir Winston Churchill)


In honor of the now closed Pacific Blue restaurant, once located in beautiful downtown Glen Ellyn, Illinois, we present the following "neon sign" type tutorial. Create a new image and fill with white. Next, Filter > Render > Clouds. Press Cntrl + U and adjust the Hue/Saturation settings as follows: Hue: 0, Saturation: 50 and Lightness: -50.



Go to Filter > Texture > Texturizer and use following settings: Texture > Brick, Scaling > 200%, Relief > 10 and Light Direction from the Top Left.



Select white as the font color and type "Pacific Blue" (or some other fine restaurant name). Layer > Rasterize Layer comes next.



Create a new layer (Layer > New Layer). Cntrl + click on the original text layer. Now, with the text selected, right click and choose Stroke at a setting of 2. Delete the text layer.



Layer Style > Outer Glow, Blend Mode > Screen, Opacity > 90%, Color > #057ffc, Spread > 15%, Size > 62 pixels.



Layer Style > Color Overlay, Blend Mode > Normal, Color > #ffffbe and Opacity at 100%.



The final result---almost back in business!