Canvas renders the text according to your specification. By selecting a visibility mask, Canvas renders the pixels with a transparent back- ground. Now, you’ll blur the rendered object. You can do this by using another popular filter, Gaussian Blur. 8 Double-click the image to put it in image edit mode. 9 Choose Image > Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. 10   In the Gaussian Blur dialog box, type 2 in the Radius text field. You can select the Preview option to see the effect. 11   Click OK to apply the filter. You now have a blurry highlight in front of the original text object. 12   Press Esc to exit edit mode and leave the paint object selected. 13   Choose Object > Arrange > Shuffle Down to move the high- light object behind the text object. Of course, you could choose to use different ink colors, and even sep- arate ink colors for the text and “glow.” The creative avenues are endless. And because you used separate objects to achieve this effect, you could remove the effect from the text by selecting the glow object and then deleting it. If you want to save your work, use the Save As command to save a copy of the document. Otherwise, you can close the document with- out saving changes. Text with a glowing highlight
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