Creating a glow effect on a key using PhotoShop

Hi,

I am currently working on a project of mine, where I am trying to get a glow effect like shown on the picture below. This was an old design which was done 5 years ago, and in the new design I am going to use a Mac Keyboard.

This is how the mac key looks like on their new keyboard, and this is the one I need to make a similar glow effect, but not spreaded to other key.

Can anyone tell me how to do it the easiest way? I need the key with a blue, red, yellow and green glow and I am going to use PhotoShop CS3.

Thanks in advance.

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I dont know where you stand on photoshop so heres a simple method, if you already knew this -my bad-. The best & easiest way to do glows (and a ton of shading and other effects) is with Blending Options. Whether its (inner/outer) drop shadows (to use global lighting effects, just like the preview), or just (inner/outer) glows, with a blend mode of color dodge or vivid light or even normal... Blending options are easy simple and can be copy&pasted on multiple layers so you only have to do it once.

theres a lot of good tutorials to practice for stuff like that, neon lights is probably where to start;

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/cb/neon-sign.html

hope that helps..

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Thanks, davidsword.

It definitively got me on the right path, but man - it takes a lot of practise to get a good result, so I am still working on.

Cheers

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