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http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-10157.html
In Photoshop 4-8 there is a coloured box on the glow filter dialogue that you can click on, I would have thought they would have left it there.
I found another page on the net referring to the glow being taken from the background colour (but that doesn't seem right to me).
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/photoeletmm/#top
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-10157.html
In Photoshop 4-8 there is a coloured box on the glow filter dialogue that you can click on, I would have thought they would have left it there.
I found another page on the net referring to the glow being taken from the background colour (but that doesn't seem right to me).
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/photoeletmm/#top