1 New file: 500×200px.

- Fill the background with black color.

- Take the text-tool and write any text you want onto a new layer. Use a font size of 60 for this at least.

- Layer / Layer to picture size. Now your text-layer should be renderend and have the same size as the whole picture.

2 The next step is to create a strong outer glow. - Click the layer with your right mouse button in the layers dialog menu. Choose “Selection from Alpha”.

- Select / Grow: 3px

- Add a new layer, name it “schein nach aussen” (which measn outer glow in German ;)).

- Fill the selection on this layer with #007eff

- In the layers dialog move the layer behind the text-layer

3 - Select / None (CTRL SHIFT A)

- Filter / Blur / Gaussian: 45px.

- Duplicate the layer and apply a gaussian blur again: 30px.

4 My layers look like this now:

5 Click the glowing text-layer in the layers dialog to activate it.

- duplicate it

- on the duplicate apply another gaussian blur. Take a value of 15.

- Set the layers mode (found in the layers dialog at the very top above the opacity) to “Dodge”.