Mouse, in photoshop you can outline (stroke) and glow, alot of times I use a thin 1pt stroke and then an outer glow of the same color of stroke, this gives a nice sharp edge to the type before fading. Thanks Abu for jumping in

Josiah VE - I was trying something I hadn't done before was a "Bird's Eye View" - looking straight down you see the staring point of the journey (top down, then as the BIRD looks outward it sees the journey in front of them and a more front view perspective, just trying something to see if it would work, I like it.