| This Tutorial creates the popular effect known from the movie "The Matrix". |
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| 1.) Open Photoshop 7.0 and create a new file. Go to File > New. Make it 300 X 150 pixels on a white background at 72 dpi then hit OK. |
| 2.) Press the letter D on the keyboard to set the foreground color to black. Now go to Edit > Fill. Set to 100% opacity and hit OK. |
| 3.) Select color for text. In the Tool palette, click on the foreground color to activate the Color Picker. Type in #00FF00 for selection and hit OK. |
| 4.) Now select the Text tool and type something large to fill the space. |
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Next, select the Move tool to center text.
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Example of first text layer. In the Layers
palette, right-click on text layer and go to Rasterize. (This
step is necessary to run Photoshop's Filters, it turns the text
to an object).
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| 5.) Drag the text layer to the bottom of the Layers palette and drop it on the New Layer icon. (Duplicate layer will be generated). |
| 6.) Now, go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. Apply settings below and hit OK. |
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Text should now look similar to this:
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| 7.) Next, Drag the "original" text layer to the bottom of the Layers palette and drop it on the New Layer icon once again. |
| 8.) Now, go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. Apply settings below and hit OK. |
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Text is now finished. Compare work to image at
top of page.
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Thanks for reading.