Photoshop: "Matrix" Layering Styles

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to go ahead and we're going to give a little bit more depth to our layers. So how we're going to do this is we're going to grab all of our layers here, and we're going to select all four of our layers. We're going to drag them down and copy them, like so. Now we have them all copied. Now what we're going to do is we're going to right-click in here, in all of our layers, we're going to hit "Rasterize Type." Now as you can see is this rasterized all of this, they are now actual vectors, or they are actual colors now versus what they were before. So we're going to hit - right-click onto our layer, and we're going to hit "Apply Layer Mask" on each one of these here, like so. Apply Layer Mask, and Apply Layer Mask, like so. Now what we're going to do is we're going to shift-click all of them again, and come up here to "Layer," and we're going to come down to "Merge Layers." And then we've merged them all into one and we're just - drag them down and bring them below the other type that we have already. Now what we're going to do is we're going to give this just a bit of a blur, so we're going to go - let's see - let's give them a Gaussian blur. Let's come down here and go to "Blur Effects - Gaussian Blur." Give them the 1.5 treatment. There we go. Now as you can see, this is kind of given us a little bit more of a grunge texture in here. So we'll stop right here and we'll pick it up on the next part."