Tutorial:
Broken Text Effect
Software: Adobe Photoshop 6.0
Difficulty: Beginner

Step One - First off you need to fire up Adobe and go file + new. You will be presented with 'new file' box (see below diagram). Make the width 400 pixels, the height 100 pixels and click white as it's contents and then click OK.

You will now be presented with the following diagram - this is your work area.

White canvas area (400x100 pixels)

Step Two - Now we will begin to apply some text to the white canvas, click on the type tool like shown on the left diagram (or simply press the letter T on your keyboard) and then click inside the button and start typing. Use a strong, fat font like Arial black,

Once you have finished typing and positioning your text you will need to click the tick at the right corner of the text toolbar. You can also use the text tool bar to change font styles and sizes. Below is a diagram of the text tool bar.

Step Five - Now go to Layer + New + Layer via Cut and the click on you move tool
Next go to your keyboard and use the arrow keys to move the layer up 2 pixels (press up arrow twice) and left twice (use left arrows twice). Merge down your layers by going layers + Merge down.