1.
you could spend a couple of days on typing all those weird symbols
that you see in the matrix movies, but here's a faster and easier
way
take a random image, preferable a jpg or tiff, don't open it with
photoshop, but open it with microsoft word, i wouldn't suggest
that you open it with notepad, cause your pc will probably freeze,
ms word does the trick for me, staroffice or some other editor will
do just fine, check it out
2.
select a big bunch of the text and copy it, go to photoshop, create
a new document with a black background, select the vertical type tool
and paste your symbols, give your symbols a small size (5-7 points)
and a clean font such as courier, all it needs now is a green color
such as #1db266. duplicate the layer and nudge it a few pixels.
looks familiar?
3.
looks a bit messy huh? lets add a mask to both layers. select one of
the text layers and hit the add vector mask button in the layers
palette.
Go to filter > render > clouds and then go to image > adjustments >
brightness/contrast
(don't forget that the mask and not the text has to be selected!)
move both sliders untill you get something you like. repeat this
for the second text layer as well.
type your name in white, duplicate the layer, give it a green color
and add a motion blur to it, move the green layer underneath the white one
you are ready neo.
