Photoshop tutorial Matrix Text Effect

Short Description
Open a new Document, whatever size you like. Give it a black background layer. Create a new layer and select the type tool. Now we’ll get to work on creating that text with all the strange characters. How do we do it? Well, we could spend half the day typing strange keyboard combinations or call on the help of an every day text editor. Since I’m on a Mac the obvious choice is BBEdit. For PC’s, I dunno, maybe word or something will work. What you do is open up a graphic file not supported by the text editor. I found opening a TIFF file worked quite nicely.

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With the type tool selected click and drag over the entire document to create paragraph text. Next select vertical type by clicking the icon in the left corner of the tool options bar, then select top align. Then, open the Character and Paragraph Palettes. Choose a nice computer font. I used Courier New. Set the font size to 6 px. Choose a green color for the text. Now paste your text from the clipboard and accept it by clicking the checkmark in the tool options bar. Set the Tsume to 70%. This reduces the space around the characters by 70%, scrunching them together more like the matrix text.
Set the spacing to 10 px and duplicate the layer. Change the font size to 8 px and the spacing to 15
px. Set the layers blend mode to Linear Dodge.
Duplicate that layer. Change the font size to 10 px and the spacing to 30 px.
OK. Getting kinda busy isn’t it? Let’s work towards a little randomness now. Click the layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette and set your foreground/background colors to default black and white (d). Choose Filter>Render>Clouds then Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast. Slide the contrast all the way up to +100%. Give it gaussian blur of about 20 pixels. Do this with all three text layers and it should be looking better, but we’re not done yet.
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