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I copied the character set, merged the layers, added a fill colour & blurred the silhouette so I got something like this: 

I then set the layer mode to “dissolve” which is directly under the default setting and adjusted the opacity so I got something similar to this: 

When you zoom in, though, it looks pretty harsh, so what I like to do is copy the layer, blur the copy, and reduce the opacity of the first layer so you achieve this sort of “glow” effect. 

If you need to adjust the radius of the dissolve, then adjust the initial blurring of the layer OR just adjust the opacity of the dissolve layer itself. You can also just make the layer mode dissolve right at the start and adjust the gaussian blur after the fact! 

i..guess you could also just erase the bits you don’t want