Photoshop: Finding "Matrix" Text Styles

Series Summary

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing today. It is a program that allows the user to be very hands on with images and manipulate the characteristics of the picture in whatever way they feel is suitable. It gives the user the ability to add specific features only available through the program to their images. Photoshop is also now being used to create images from scratch at a design level. The impact of this is that anyone with a computer is now able to design and create as they see fit. It is no longer reserved to the established and wealthy designers. In this free video series a Photoshop expert, Robert Segundo, will show you how to create "Martix" text in Photoshop. Robert will begin by showing you various text styles that you can use or modify in order to create "Matrix" text. He'll then show you several layering tips in order to enhance the overall appearance of your textual image and background. You'll learn about layering masks, layering styles and highlighting within Photoshop. Robert will also show you a few final touch tips to help make your background and text pop. In the end you'll be able to make artist text that simulates the text used in "Matrix" the movie.

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to go ahead and start with our Matrix text - our Matrix background and text, so let's have a look at it. As you can see here, I've got a new Photoshop - I've got a cleared Photoshop document, so I'm going to open a new one up. I've got this one at 700 by 700 by 72, which seems fine for me for right now. So let's go ahead and hit Command-zero to enlarge this full-screen. There we go. Now what we're going to do is we're going to hit D to reset our palettes to black and white. And then we're going to hit Alt or Option, and hit Delete or Backspace, which will end up giving us our foreground color. And so now that we've got the background filled with the foreground color, we need those crazy texts that float out like in the Matrix movie. So to get that crazy text, what we're going to is we're going to come up here to our desktop, and we're going to find a photo. I already have a photo here, and we're going to open this with - let's see, we're going to open this with a text editor. So I'm going to have to choose "other" here, and we're going to scroll down until I get to my TextEdit. There we go, and hit "Open." As you can see, it's going to open this page in a format in the text editor for it to read. As you can see, it has all this crazy text here. So what we're going to to is we're going to select a good chunk of this. That looks like enough. And we're going to Command-copy that. Then we're going to use that and paste that right into our Photoshop document and . . . well, we'll stop here for now, we'll move on to that in a second."