Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Matrix Shadow Effect Tutorial


Step 1: Press D on your keyboard to set the background color swatch with black. Press the letter X to swap swatches. hold down the apple key and press delete. 

Step 2: Type your text. Hold down the control key and click on your text layer. choose rasterize. 

Step 3: 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 

Step 4: 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 to 80 pixels. 


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