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Outer Glow color not showing up

Community Beginner ,
Apr 12, 2021 Apr 12, 2021

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Hey friends, long time fan - first time poster.

 

I am using Adobe PS 2021 to create a watermark and I am attempting to put an Outer Glow on an object. The object rests on a black background and was filled with white prior to attempting to put on the Outer Glow. When I add the desired color that I want to use (RED) the glow turns grey Grey. If I move to another color, it stays Grey - when I change the Saturation, it just lightens and darkens the Grey.

  • (see photo 1) I have the opacity on the object set to 100% and the layer is not a smart object (though I did try to see if that would work but it rendered the same result).
  • I have tried this on all of the objects in the watermark and it still will not change color.

 

Not sure what I am doing wrong because I did this last night to a rendering with Black text (see photo 2) and it turned out fine, only difference is the lowered opacity on the objects & it is on a white background instead of black.

 

Photo 1:

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Photo 2:

Cursive_logo_transparent.pngexpand image

 

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Community Expert , Apr 12, 2021 Apr 12, 2021

If you look at the tab with the filename it says Gray. That means it's a grayscale file and cannot show color.

To fix it, go to Image > Mode > RGB Color (or CMYK Color if needed) to make it a color file.

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If you look at the tab with the filename it says Gray. That means it's a grayscale file and cannot show color.

To fix it, go to Image > Mode > RGB Color (or CMYK Color if needed) to make it a color file.


— Adobe Certified Expert & Instructor at Noble Desktop | Web Developer, Designer, InDesign Scriptor

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