tikz beamer pgf add tag
Dr. Manuel Kuehner
 - This is a "fun" project.
 - I want to create a `beamer` presentation with a fancy title frame.
 - The goal is to have a black title frame with "bight colorful" text on it that looks like **neon** text (**glowing**).
 - It's a bit inspired by the intro of the TV show "Stranger Things".
 - Ideally, I want to stick to beamer's `beamercolorbox` approach to build the title frame template.
 - I found some (partly older) related questions but I was hoping that by now there is a simple solution available. There seems to be solutions available to generate this effect for boxes but not for text.
 - Question: Any idea how to generate a "neon glow" for normal text on the title frame with `tikz` and friends?
 
**Disclaimer:** Crosspost to https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/587372.

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    \documentclass{beamer}
    
    \usepackage{tikz}
    % Potentially Useful Libraries
    \usetikzlibrary{
        shadows.blur, % "pgf-blur" package
        }
    
    % Title of Presentation
    \title{Presentation Title}
    
    % Definition of Title Frame
    \setbeamertemplate{title page}
        {
        \begin{beamercolorbox}[center]{title}
            \usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle
        \end{beamercolorbox}
        }
    
    % Definition of Font Color of Title (Used in "\setbeamertemplate{title page}")    
    \setbeamercolor{title}{fg=pink} 
    
    % Related
    % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315989
    % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401032
    % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/493401
    % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315989
    % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/446841
    
    \begin{document}
    
    % Title Frame
    \setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black}
    \begin{frame}
    \maketitle
    \end{frame}
    \setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=}
    
    % Normal Frame
    \begin{frame}{Frame Title}
    Text
    \end{frame}
    
    \end{document}

[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[![enter image description here][2]][2]

Related
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 - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315989 
 - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401032 
 - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/493401
 - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315989
 - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/446841

  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/zgCZf.png
  [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pe92r.jpg
Top Answer
user 3.14159
Maybe this goes in the right direction.
```
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{environ}
\usepackage{contour}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings}
\NewEnviron{NeonTikZ}[2][]{\begin{tikzfadingfrompicture}[name=temp]%
\begin{scope}[transparent!0,#1] 
\BODY
\end{scope}
\end{tikzfadingfrompicture}%
\tikz[#1]{\begin{scope}[local bounding box=X,opacity=0]%
\BODY
\end{scope}
\shade[inner color=red,outer color=red!50!black,
	path fading=temp,fit fading=false]
 (X.south west) rectangle (X.north east);
 }%
}

\newsavebox\WhatEver
\begin{document}
\savebox\WhatEver{\begin{NeonTikZ}[baseline={(txt.base)}]{GoldLeaf.jpg}
\node[align=center,font=\bfseries\Large] (txt) 
{\contourlength{0.6pt}\contour{white}{\textcolor{black}{Some Text}}};
\end{NeonTikZ}}

\begin{tikzpicture}
 \fill (0,0) rectangle (6,3) node[midway,scale=2]{\usebox\WhatEver};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
```
![Screen Shot 2021-03-15 at 9.18.56 PM.png](/image?hash=e271f825d577b58410fb7a513b0b28771cd60b76699bcb7aa57f7d2d002837c1)

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