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Begin with a new image 150 by 150 and background set to black. Add your text, Angela used Arial, (I used Flat Brush), at 72 points, anti-alias checked, floating unchecked. Click Selections->Save to Alpha Channel, you can just accept the defaults. Click Selections-> Select None. Create a new layer, Layers->New. Now, Selections->Load from Alpha Channel, then Selections->Modify->Expand by 6. Flood fill this with bright green (RGB 0,255,0). Selections->Select None. Image->Blur->Gaussian Blur set the blur to 10.

Layers->New. Selection->Load from Alpha Channel. Selections->Modify->Expand by 2. Flood fill with yellow (RGB 255,255,0). Selections->Select None. Image->Blur->Gaussian Blur set to 3.

Layers->New. Selection->Load from Alpha Channel. Selections->Modify->Expand by 2. Flood fill with white. Selections->Select None. Image->Blur->Gaussian Blur set to 2.

Layer->New. Selections->Load from Alpha Channel. Flood fill with black. That's it!