This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to recreate
the Matrix screen and place yourself into it. Enter the Matrix.
Before we begin, if you want to know as soon as I upload new Photoshop tutorials,
smash that Subscribe button and please remember to click “Like” if you like this video! Open a
close-up photo of yourself or someone else that you'd like to use for this project. I
downloaded this one from Shutterstock. We'll get back to it in a few minutes. Minimize Photoshop
and open a simple text editor such as “Notepad” in Windows or "TextEdit" in Macs.
Drag the photo inside the text editor. Because simple text editors aren't meant to accept images,
they'll end up populating themselves with a wide variety of characters and symbols. Scroll to an
area that has a good variety of characters and click to the left of the first character. If your
text is approximately this size, scroll down just a bit and Shift-click to the right of the last
character and highlight all the characters between your first and last clicks. Press
Ctrl or Cmd + C to copy the highlighted text. Minimize the text editor and maximize Photoshop.
Click the foreground color to open the Color Picker. Pick a bright green.
Notice your foreground color is now the color you just picked. Open the Vertical Type Tool and go
to File and New. Make its width: 1920 pixels, its height: 1080 pixels and its resolution:
72 pixels per inch. The Color Mode is RGB and 8 bits per channel. If the background color box
isn't black, click it and pick black. Then, click "Create" or "Open". Place your cursor to the top,
left corner and drag it to the bottom, right corner. Press Ctrl or Cmd + "v" to paste your text
into the text box. We’ll take care of the spacing in a minute. Open your Type Picker
and pick a font. I'm using "Chiller", which you can download from "Fontzone.com". I provided its
link in my video's description. Make its size 20 points. Its aliasing is irrelevant in this case.
Choose this icon, which makes our text flush at the top and ragged at the bottom. Go to Window
and Character. Make the Leading: 20 points and the "Tracking: 0. Leading controls the amount of space
between lines of type, while Tracking controls the amount of space between the characters. Click the
checkmark at the top. Name the text layer, “Text”. Make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Make the Leading: 10 and the Tracking: 10. Make a copy of this layer and make the Leading: 20
and the Tracking: 25. We can close the Character panel now. Name the other text layers, "Text".
Click the layer Mask icon to make a layer mask next to the active layer. Go to Filter,
Render and Clouds.
This creates subtle variances of opacity in this layer. We'll repeat it for the top layer.
Go back to Filter, Render, and Clouds. Notice the clouds effect in this layer mask has the
same tonality, but the clouds image is different. We'll further give our text more tonal variances
by brushing black over areas in the layer masks. To do this, open your Brush Tool
and Brush Picker. Pick a soft, round brush. Make its size 400 pixels and its hardness:
0%. Make its Opacity approximately 50% and the Flow: 100%. Randomly brush over your image.
Make the layer mask under it active and again, randomly brush over the image. Next, we'll copy
these three text layers by clicking the top layer to make it active and Shift-clicking the bottom
text layer to make all the text active. Press Ctrl or Cmd + J. We’ll merge these copies into one
layer by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E. Name it “Motion Blur”. Drag it below the other text layers.
Go to Filter, Blur, and Motion Blur. Make the Angle 90 degrees and the Distance: 30 pixels.
If you like your Matrix image as it looks, we can flatten our entire
image by clicking the icon at the upper right again and clicking "Flatten Image".
Open your subject. The first step is to separate it from its background. If you're using version
CC 2020, unlock it and open the Properties panel. If you don’t see it, go to Window and Properties.
Scroll down the panel and click "Remove Background". It automatically analyzed our image
and did its best to create a layer mask of our subject's shape. It does a pretty good job overall
and for this project, the layer mask doesn't have to be perfect, since it'll be blended in with our
matrix text. If you're using an earlier version of Photoshop, open your Quick Selection Tool
and drag it over your subject to select it. To remove areas of the selection, press and hold
Alt or Option as you drag over those areas. Then, click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of
the selection. Press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag the subject onto the tab of your Matrix
image. Without releasing your mouse or pen, drag it down and then, release. To resize it,
open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. At the top, make sure the chain-link icon is
active between the Transform's width and height. Drag the scrubby slider next to either of them to
the left or right to reduce or enlarge your subject's size. To reposition it, go inside the
Transform's bounding box and drag it. Then, press Enter or Return. Next, we'll make our subject into
a displacement map, which will make our text look as if it’s wrapping itself around the contours of
our subject. For it to work properly, our subject must be cropped to the same size of our Matrix
image. To do this, press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select the dimensions of your visible document
and go to Image and Crop. Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. Click the icon at the upper,
right of the Layers panel and click "Convert to Smart Object". Doing this allows us to modify our
subject non-destructively. Open back the fly-out list and this time, click "Duplicate Layer".
Open the Destination Document list and click "New". Name it, "Displacement".
Notice, it created a new document, named "Displacement". Displacement maps look best when
they're black and white and slightly blurred, so we'll do that to ours. Click the Adjustment Layer
icon and click "Black & White". Make the subject active and go to Filter, Blur, and Gaussian Blur.
Blur it 3 pixels. Go to File and "Save As". Save it to your desktop as a Photoshop PSD file
and click "Save". If you see this message, just click OK. Now that we saved it,
we can close the displacement document. Make the background active and make a copy of it.
Ctrl or Cmd-click the thumbnail of your subject to select its shape. Temporarily hide the subject
and convert the copy of the background into a Smart Object. Go to Filter, Distort, and Displace.
Make the Horizontal and Vertical Scales 20 each, "Stretch to Fit" and "Repeat Edge Pixels".
Click the Displacement file you saved earlier and click "Open". Notice our Matrix text that was
inside the selection is wrapping itself over the contours of our subject. Make your subject visible
and active and change its Blend Mode to "Soft Light". To strengthen the effect, make a copy of
it. To make our subject a bit more discernible, make the background copy active and make a layer
mask next to it. Go to Filter, Render, and Clouds. Enter the Matrix. Thanks for watching!