I took it upon myself to make visual instructions, its alot easier to understand.


ok start out with a clean WHITE background
you foreground color should be black.
and background color should be a dark green
(I use #14B908, but u can use any NEON GREEN looking color, you want something bright)


go to FILTER>Texture>GRAIN
make sure grain type is VERTICAL
intensity=100
contrast=48


next step we go to FILTER>artistic>NEON GLOW
the GLOW COLOR should be something darker (I use #185403)
glow size= -11
glow brightness=34

hit OK and
SUPRISE...the matrix reveals its secrets before your very monitor
then you just throw in some flashy letters a picture of Neo or something...and there you go.

remember kids...when in doubt
THINK WITH A BOSS MIND
lol

   Thu Aug 18, 2005    Reply         

Great Tutorial man, the back ground looks real MATRIX.
Here are my results

Using a portrait gives a makes it more attractive (like in your case).
I give the tutorial 8.5/10

Thanks for sharing man
Speedy

   Wed Oct 26, 2005    Reply         

Boy ... looks like speedy is devouring every photoshop tutorial he can find .

"Think with a boss mind" ... hmmm... let me meditate for a while on that .

Great tutorial man, keep 'em coming .

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   Wed Oct 26, 2005    Reply         

Actually, the matrix numbers aren't numbers either. From what I can tell, they are Japanese characters with some of them misoriented and whatnot.

The is a slight posibility that chinese characters were used but to the best of my recolection, Japanese katakana was used. There may have been a few hirogana characters used as well. Additionally, the writting moved in an up and down motion further suggesting an asian language.

I might be able to guide someone through the process of using Japanese fonts on their windows systems if they are interested.



Hope this helps.

vujsa

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   Sat Nov 5, 2005    Reply         

QUOTE (vujsa)

Actually, the matrix numbers aren't numbers either. From what I can tell, they are Japanese characters with some of them misoriented and whatnot.

The is a slight posibility that chinese characters were used but to the best of my recolection, Japanese katakana was used. There may have been a few hirogana characters used as well. Additionally, the writting moved in an up and down motion further suggesting an asian language.

I might be able to guide someone through the process of using Japanese fonts on their windows systems if they are interested.

Link: view Post: 58936

Well, I just got a related PM about this post so I thought I should update the topic. I did write a tutorial on the installation of East Asian Fonts on your Windows System.

http://www.astahost.com/adding-east-asian-...stem-t8934.html

In order to use Japanese in PhotoShop, open a new text layer in PS and then follow the instructions in the following tutorial.

http://www.astahost.com/using-japanese-cha...ows-t12556.html

Hope this helps.

vujsa

   Thu Jun 29, 2006    Reply         

lol. i created this effect before, and i was too lazy to get japanese fonts. =P
So instead, i went into notepad, opened a picture file (i used .jpg). There will be a huge chunk of weird words. Just extract a part of them and paste it and rearrange the fonts so that they are vertical.
Doesn't exactly look like the matrix's words, but hey, improvisation is fine.

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