Adding neon/faded lines | Creating wallpapers

[theSIX]

Hello everyone!

I was curious if anyone could tell me how to effectively add a sort of "neon" effect to some lines. I've located the filter for "neon" but it's not quite right (or I can't figure out how to get it right). To go along with the neon lines, I'd like to be able to make them fade. Like, to blend into the background/be transparent? The image I have posted with this comment has both of these elements that I'm talking about.

To be honest, I'm trying to make it into a wallpaper but when I extend the size of the image, there's all this blank space, even if I just color it black. If anyone could help me achieve my goal of finishing the neon lines and polishing it up to make it a wallpaper, that would be fantastic. I'd like to be able to do it myself, though, so please show me how to do these sorts of things so I can learn.

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Hi theSIX Welcome

in order To create the neon lines effect this tut may help
Photoshop Tutorial- Glowing Light Strokes

and to make the lines fade into the background just create a selection on the neon line, create a layer mask and then aply a gradient over the layer mask from white to black same direction as your lines "straight lines"

Or instead of the white to black gradient over the layer mask just use a big soft brush whit a low opacity start painting over the line parts that should disappear or blend into the background.

Hope this helps.

 

[theSIX]

Ah, thank you for the reply.

Spent a while googling tutorials and fiddling with all the tools and I stumbled across one called "Patch tool"? Or something? Found it pretty useful and I removed all the lines...except the parts that touch the character. When I use it there, I get a really weird result. Found another called the "Clone Stamp tool" and that fixed that problem but is a painstaking process... Wonder if there's an easier way?

Thanks for the link. That's a pretty neat effect and I will probably end up using it. Originally, I was thinking of using rectangles to make copies of the 'lines' in the image but that tutorial might be better to use, considering I removed the lines, anyways.

I tried the gradient bit and wasn't too keen on it. Getting it perfect was a kind of difficult, haha! The brush was rather useful, thank you! It took me a while to figure out what you meant but "with a low opacity".

Just need to figure out how to get the glow from the hair (near the corners) to bleed into the nearly added bit when I expand it.