Adding Backlight Effect to Marquees

[kingb33]

Does anyone know how you add a "backlight" or "backlit" type effect to a marquee image? Kinda like if you were in a old dark 80's style arcade and it's really dark but the marquees light up? Maybe a technique? Or a Photoshop action? Any tips would be greatly appreciated...

thx

[Adultery]

Fluorescent paint? Or fluorescent stickers with a blacklight bulb behind them? It could work, no?

[kingb33]

Fluorescent paint? Or fluorescent stickers with a blacklight bulb behind them? It could work, no?

I mean an image marquee....the .png files we use in GameEx.

[bkenobi]

He want's a filter or lighting effect to modify the image on the computer. I don't know of one that anyone else has created, but you could play with different filters in Photoshop to see if a combination can do what you want. I would guess you would want to adjust the white balance and maybe apply an offset of some kind (depending on the color of light you would have had behind it). It may require some kind of a fuzzy boarder on lighter areas since you would have a bit of bleed through. Interesting idea, but you may find it easier to just D/L a set of marquees that are lit in the first place.

[kingb33]

He want's a filter or lighting effect to modify the image on the computer. I don't know of one that anyone else has created, but you could play with different filters in Photoshop to see if a combination can do what you want. I would guess you would want to adjust the white balance and maybe apply an offset of some kind (depending on the color of light you would have had behind it). It may require some kind of a fuzzy boarder on lighter areas since you would have a bit of bleed through. Interesting idea, but you may find it easier to just D/L a set of marquees that are lit in the first place.

hi thx for the response....yeah i actually looked but there are only a VERY few that actually look like this. unless you know a website that has some?

[bkenobi]

I don't, but then I've never looked. I can see how it would be cool to do this, but I don't know how many other people have thought about it. It's hard enough to take a good picture of a marquee so you get accurate color and no flash spotting, so taking an accurate picture of a backlit marquee (and having a set look consistent) might be a pretty big challenge.

Sorry, I'm not really providing any help though

[Endaar]

I think the biggest problem is that to do this properly you really need to adjust the transparency of various parts of the marquee. It's a lot of work.