Outer glow not working properly for me, please help!

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
April 18, 2025
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When I try applying outer glow, this happens... I made my logo on a different software and want to use photoshop to add additional effects. However when I use the outer glow it gets limited by this arbitrary bounding box. I'm assuming I need it to act like a normal object but I don't know how. I tried doing stuff like raterizing and converting to smart object but none of it has worked. How do I fix this issue?

Windows

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

Did you extract the letter Z from the background, or is Z imported with transparency? It may be that during masking or background extraction, there are leftovers that are difficult to spot but show up when the layer effect is applied.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

It looks like the layer has contend other than the blue Z character.

Create a new layer

Ctrl click the layer with the Outer Glow effect to load it as a selection.

And fill with foreground colour (Alt backspace)

This will show the true contents of the layer.

It would be useful if you include the Layers Styles panel in your next screenshot.

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Whispering_knight7540Author

Participant

Ok so I did not find any extra contents but when I opened layer styles and changed it to the black square now it works properly! Thanks!

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