Well this is a very popular special effect inspired the famous movie called The Matrix ofcourse .

Let’s see how to create it.
step 1:

Start a new document of size 400×400 pix make sure u select the background as white and press ‘d’ to reset the colour to the photoshop defaults i.e. black foreground and white background.

step 2:

Now let us add some falling grains to the image for that go to
Filter>Texture>Grain and add the settings as

u will get this

Step 3:

Let’s add some glow to it so what it shines more

Filter>Atristic>Neon glow

after adding u will get this

Step 4:

now it look a bit similiar isn’t it. Let’s make it a bit sharper so it looks better.

Select Filter>Sharpen>sharpen More

and our matrix effect is ready.
here is what i got.

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