Photoshop: Layering "Matrix" Text Background

Video Transcript

"So now we're going to move on and add an extra layer to our Matrix background here. So what we've got here is we have our layer already done that we did previously. So what we're going to do is we're going to come down here and we're just going to - oops, not get out of our program - we're going to come down here and just grab this layer and pull it down and copy it, just copy a layer over the top. There we go. Now that that's done, we want to make sure we're in our Move tool, which is "V." Going to bring it down. Let's bring our - oops, let's not do that. Let's bring our text up a little bit. Let's bring this up to a, let's bring this up to a 10 point, like so. There we go. We've enlarged this a little bit. Now let's shrink - stop doing that first - let's shrink that down a bit. Let's do it to a negative 8 point, like so, and this will shrink our characters together just a little bit. Now what we're going to do is we're going to set this into a layer blending mode. So we're going to go up here and we're going to hit Layer. We're going to go to, let's see, where is it? Layer Style. We're going to go into Blending Options. And we're going to come down here and we're going to turn this into a Linear Dodge. I'm going to hit OK there. And there you have it. As you can see, where the text lays, it's going to give it that extra brightness, like the text is in the Matrix. So we'll just - let's move this and set this somewhere, like so. Like that. There we go. Now we've added depth to our file. Let's actually lay it over like this. There we go. Now we've got a little more depth with the two layers that we've put on here. So the next thing that we're going to do is, actually, we're just going to kind of grab this, and let's expand this out of it. It's going to keep - it's going to add the text style up a little bit. Let's see, let's grab the background layer and let's move it up just a bit, too. Grab it here. Anyway, that's what we're going to do, is we're just going to grab these layers. Let's hit Enter to get out of that one. Go ahead and grab that one. Let's move it up a bit. There we go. Now we've gotten all of our crazy text here and a couple of nice layers here. So we're going to stop here for now and we'll pick it up on the next part."