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Open a new Document, whatever size you like. Give it a black background layer. Create a new layer and select the

type tool.

Now we'll get to work on creating that text with all the strange characters. How do we do it? Well, we could spend half

the day typing strange keyboard combinations or call on the help of an every day text editor. Since I'm on a Mac the

obvious choice is BBEdit. For PC's, I dunno, maybe word or something will work. What you do is open up a graphic file

not supported by the text editor. I found opening a TIFF file worked quite nicely.

Look at that! Just like Matrix text except horizontal and not so glowing. Woo, now we're cookin. Select a big ol' chunk

of text out of the middle somewhere and copy it to the clipboard. Head back into Photoshop next.

With the type tool selected click and drag over the entire document to create paragraph text. Next select vertical type

by clicking the icon in the left corner of the tool options bar, then select top align. Then, open the Character and

Paragraph Palettes. Choose a nice computer font. I used Courier New. Set the font size to 6 px. Choose a green color

for the text. Now paste your text from the clipboard and accept it by clicking the checkmark in the tool options bar.

Set the Tsume to 70%. This reduces the space around the characters by 70%, scrunching them together more like the

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matrix text.

Set the spacing to 10 px and duplicate the layer. Change the font size to 8 px and the spacing to 15 px. Set the layers

blend mode to Linear Dodge.

Duplicate that layer. Change the font size to 10 px and the spacing to 30 px.

OK. Getting kinda busy isn't it? Let's work towards a little randomness now. Click the layer mask icon at the bottom of

the layers palette and set your foreground/background colors to default black and white (d). Choose

Filter>Render>Clouds then Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast. Slide the contrast all the way up to +100%.

Give it gaussian blur of about 20 pixels. Do this with all three text layers and it should be looking better, but we're not

done yet.

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More randomness is in order. More masking is in order too. Create a new layer set by licking the folder icon at the

bottom of the layers palette then drop your 3 text layers in there. Make sure the layer set is selected and click on the

layer mask icon. This time we'll be spending a little more time with our masking. Choose the brush tool and select a 6

pixel, hard, round brush. Make sure black is your foreground color and start painting away strips of text being sure to

leave lone strips falling down by themselves. You'll want to take more from the bottom than the top and just kind of

break it up some in the middle. Remeber if goof you can always paint stuff back in with white, your text isn't really

being harmed. The beauty of layer masks.

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Now let's give the text a little glow. Duplicate each text layer. After you duplicate it right click on the layer and choose

"rasterize layer", then right click on the layer mask thumbnail and choose "apply layer mask". After you've made a

rasterized copy of all 3 text layers and applied their layer masks move them beneath the text layers and merge them

together. Give them a gaussian blur of about 1.5 pixels. Click the layer mask button again and choose render clouds. I

just thought it looked lonely down there all by itself without a mask to keep it company. Almost done.

Create a new layer above the layer set. Select the transparency of all 3 text layers by command clicking on the first

layer and then shift-command clicking on the last 2. Press command-h to hide the selection so you can see what your

doing. Set white as your foreground color and paint in highlights for the text. Deselect and give it a gaussian blur of

about 1.5 pixels, set the blending mode to Color Dodge and drop the opacity to about 80%.

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This one's optional. If your color seems a little bit off like mine did just add a hue/saturation adjustment layer and

slide the hue around until you're happy.

Now we'll do the big text. Create a new layer on top. Select the type tool and a font that looks good for the job in

capitals. I used Palatino at 48 pixels. You could probably find a better Matrix font at one of the download sites if you

wanted to. You should also reset your tsume and spacing back to normal in the character palette. Type your text in

white and duplicate the layer twice. Rasterize all 3 layers. Go to the bottom text layer and tick the preserve

transparency box in the layers palette. Fill the layer with the color you used for the background text and uncheck the

preserve transparency box. Do this for the middle text layer as well. On the bottom text layer choose

Filter>Blur>Motion Blur, set the angle to 0 and blur it until it looks about right. On the middle text layer make sure

preserve transparency is off and choose Filter>Other>Minimum and enter a setting of 2 pixels or so depending on the

size of your type. Now give it a small gaussian blur, maybe 2 or 3 pixels. On the top (white) text layer select the

rectangular marquee tool and select a piece of text on one of your letters. Then select the move tool and nudge the

selection any direction you want by 1 or 2 pixels. Repeat as necessary until you're done. Link the three text layers

together and position them wherever you want. That's it, you're done.

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In hindsight I think this effect could probably be improved by using more text layers, especially the smaller ones, and

varying the spacing more but at the moment I don't really care to go back and rewrite the tut for it. The best advice I

can give for achieving any effect is to look at an example and try to recreate that. Just play around trying different

things until you get it right.. you'll learn so much in the process and won't need tutorials for everything anymore.

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That's exactly what I did here, I just took the time to type it out as I fiddled.

-peace

There are so many ways to convert a color picture into black & white, and here I'll show you a few ways to do this.

Ok - here we go.

Start with opening up your picture.

I chose a picture of my daughter in a little wooden tree house we found

one day we were out walking.

Since her face is basically framed by wood with lots of great texture I

wanted to get a rough appearance with great contrast.

I'll start with showing you the 2 easiest ways of converting to b&w -

and by some the most common methods: Grayscale and Desaturation.

I rarely use these 2 methods though because they usually produce a

flat image with low contrast.

Let me show you:

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Grayscale

Image - Mode - Grayscale

Simple as that - but as you can see it loose some dept. Didn't turn out

really bad on this particular image though...

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Desaturate

Image - Adjustments - Desaturate

Quick and easy - but the image has very low contrast, and it appears

"pale" and flat. Not what I had in mind at all.

What I really love about old fashion B&W photography is the great dept

and contrast they can provide.

Ok - it's time to get serious;

I'll show you my 2 favorite ways of turning my pictures into b&w where

you have total control of the end result.

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Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer

The next method I'm gonna show is by simply using several

Hue/saturation adjustment layers.

This means that you can go back and alter the effect at anytime + you

never make any change to the original image.

At your original picture layer go to Layer - New Adjustment layer -

Hue/Saturation. Then just click OK without altering any of the

settings - and then change the layer mode from Normal to Color.

Then add a new Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer - but this time

turn down the Saturation to -100 before you click OK.

You can see how my picture looked like so far in the picture to the left.

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