Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Matrix Shadow Effect Tutorial





Step1: Press "D" on your keyboard to set the background swatch with black. Press the letter "X" to swap swatches. Hold down the apple key and press delete.

Step2: Type your text. Hold down the control key and click on the text layer. Choose rasterize.

Step3: Make a duplicate of your rasterized layer.
Go under the filter menu, under blur, choose motion blur. When the dialog box appears set the angle to 0º, and increase the distance of the blur to 39 pixels. Click OK.

Step4: Make a duplicate of your original rasterized layer. Go under the filter menu, under blur, and choose Motion Blur. When the dialog box appears, set the Angle to 90º and the distance of blur to 80 pixels Click OK.

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