How To Create A Vintage Text Effect In Photoshop For Retro Designs

How To Create A Vintage Text Effect In Photoshop For Retro Designs – One of the best ways to stay fresh, relevant and relevant as a designer or illustrator is to learn from other talented creatives.

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, it’s important to constantly hone your skills — so we’ve scoured the web to bring you the best retro and vintage Photoshop tutorials.

How To Create A Vintage Text Effect In Photoshop For Retro Designs

For easy navigation, we have divided the tutorials into the following categories: retro and vintage techniques; retro and vintage style; typography tutorials; posters; photography; and Photoshop and Illustrator.

2 Ways To Add Vintage Texture + How To Draw A Sunburst

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01. Create Seamless Textures in Photoshop A particularly useful technique for designers to master is how to create seamless patterns in Photoshop. In this short video tutorial, you will learn how to quickly and easily create a smooth texture in Photoshop using the Clone tool, which you can use to age your images and add a vintage effect to your logos, posters and other designs.

Find out how quickly and easily rough up the edges of your work in Photoshop with this short video tutorial. The pro techniques covered here allow you to age your design to create a tactile, natural effect – and the tutorial comes with a pack of 12 free Photoshop brushes (The Edge & Fold Distressor Brush Pack, which can also be downloaded here for free) that is well.

Learn how to transform images using Threshold adjustments to make vintage art out of any image with this 12-minute video tutorial. You will know how to use masks and adjustment layers to lighten and darken parts of the image for great results. You’ll also see how to create reusable noise layers – and why using fill layers is better than filling layers with color.

How To Create A Retro Vintage Text Effect In Photoshop

Marty from Blue Lightening TV shares some best practice techniques for creating retro logo designs in this brilliant, bite-sized video (less than seven minutes long).

You’ll need a concrete texture to follow the steps – we’ve got 10 free ones to choose from on our Freebies page.

05. How to Create Golden Book Style Textured Images in Photoshop Designer, Illustrator and founder of Brave the Woods, Brad Woodard explains how to quickly create a highly textured aesthetic in Photoshop using the Woodland Wonderland brush set – perfect for anyone who wants to recreate. old golden book style illustration.

One more from Marty from Blue Lightening TV – this time he shares some best practice techniques for turning photos into classic pop art comic book pages in this amazing 10 minute video tutorial. He uses Photoshop CC 2014 – if you use Photoshop CC 2015, try his Warhol-style portrait tutorial.

How To Create An 80’s Style Chrome Logo Text Effect In Photoshop

Quickly create retro shapes and patterns with designer Luke O’Neill’s top tips for working with vector shape layers in Photoshop CS6.

Add depth to flat digital artwork by combining textures with subtle shadows and highlights. This tutorial will show you the Photoshop techniques you need.


Peter O’Toole reveals how to add depth to your vintage illustrations using handmade brush strokes in Photoshop.

Team Green walks through how to use photos to create surreal montages that have an authentic washed-out vintage look.

Vintage Letterpress Poster Design Photoshop Tutorial

Ollie Munden and Harriet Seed cover several techniques for creating tattoo-style art, based on 50s rockabilly and navy motifs, in this Photoshop tutorial, which shows you how to create a vintage-style poster.

Tom Kemp Starley reveals how to create surreal, 1940s-inspired compositions using a mix of photos and graphics, the Warp tool, curves and brushes.

What is the difference between a brush preset and a tool preset? And how do you install them? Suzanne Sarver explains why tool presets are great and walks you through how to get started with them in this handy step-by-step tutorial.

Match blocks and match boxes became popular as advertising vehicles in the 1950s. Find out how to quickly recreate a vintage matching letterpress effect with just a few Photoshop textures and filters (and grab some quality free resources at the same time) with this 10 minute tutorial.

Vintage Retro Design Font

Add an organic, handmade feel to your designs with this video tutorial, which walks you through how to create wood effects in Photoshop.

Learn how to turn a person’s photo into pixel art like a fictional arcade character from the early 90s.

New York-based illustrator Kervin Brisseaux shares techniques for creating sports illustrations with a retro-futuristic sci-fi look.

Damien Vignaux (aka Elroy) explains how to use fake 3D models and Photoshop textures to create vintage-style low-poly artwork.

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Top illustrator Peter O’Toole shows you how to create a vintage aesthetic using textures, a limited color palette and Photoshop’s Channel Mixer.

Learn how to create a retro futuristic Outrun style text effect from scratch in this Photoshop tutorial. You’ll walk through how to use a mixture of gradients, textures, colors, fonts, grains, shadows and more to create cool retro-futuristic effects.

Nail the basics and create stunning vintage hand lettering with this easy-to-use tutorial. Comes with a pack of six free Photoshop brushes to help you get started…

Design Cuts walks you through how to use input design elements to create ads for school garages and repair shops in this helpful Photoshop tutorial. In addition to working with textures, fonts, and other design elements, you’ll learn some very practical Photoshop tips and tricks that you can apply to your own projects.

Vintage Retro Text Effect Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

(If you need some retro design elements to follow this tutorial, be sure to check out our collection.)

Recreate the line gradient effect you sometimes see in woodblock prints and sign letters with this 10-step vintage text tutorial. You can apply the effect to any type you want for an authentic retro feel.

Chris Spooner goes back to the 1980s to show you how to create an 80s-style chrome text effect, mixing layer styles and color overlays to achieve the final result.

Luke O’Neill explains how to use the new Match Font feature in Photoshop and how to get the best results.

Vintage Text Effect Vector Art, Icons, And Graphics For Free Download

3D artist Craig Minchington looks at how to design elegant 3D type using the new tools in Photoshop CS6.

Thomas Burden explains how to add texture to lifelike renderings of 3D elements to create a Tom Waits-inspired piece, with the old New York aesthetic of a dirty coffee house.

Embrace the abstract theme of old album art by following this step-by-step Photoshop tutorial to manipulate landscape photos with various color adjustments in Photoshop and incorporate typography.

Use the format attribute in Photoshop CC, along with several layer styles, to quickly and easily create retro 3D text effects, such as skin.

Retro 3d Text Effect

Learn how to mask an image so that it is only visible through editable text, making it more friendly for later changes, in this tutorial create a retro color psychedelic text effect.

In this advanced tutorial, João Oliveira explains how to create a 3D typography illustration using Cinema 4D to build 3D and Photoshop for post-production.

Recreate a 1960s-style boxing poster and brush up on some basic graphic design principles in this 21-step Photoshop tutorial.

Dig out your grungiest brushes and textures to design an old school, low-fi horror movie poster this Halloween.

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Combine stock photos, textures and brushes with blending mode techniques and filters to create a fun vintage style poster design.

Give your illustrations a retro-futuristic style with this Photoshop tutorial, which walks you through how to create a space-themed poster design with powerful lighting effects and awkward textures.

Andrea Austoni walks through how to create an atmospheric, textured poster for a rave in this Photoshop video tutorial.

Designer and illustrator James White walks you through how to add a bold pop culture retro style to photos using Photoshop filters and layer styles.

Design Retro Groovy Rainbow Gradient Vintage 3d Text Effect

Add depth to your photos while keeping them neutral with this handy Photoshop tutorial for creating pastel photo effects.

Learn how to turn digital photos into imperfect analog photos with light leaks, dark vignettes and blurred focus before creating patterns, mixing images, textures and blending modes to get a vintage Swiss poster design.

Luke O’Neil shows you how to quickly create attractive graphic backgrounds that will make your design stand out using Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

Combine photography and typography to create a vintage-style dark motorcycle poster design in this step-by-step Photoshop and Illustrator tutorial.

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Transform clean and crisp vector art into a vintage typography poster design with a screen printing style with distressed textures and a muted color scheme.

Recreate the vintage postcard style with image-based 3D text – each letter has a different image – with this retro postcard creation tutorial.

Design a classic 40’s and 50’s style logo with this step-by-step retro Photoshop tutorial – which comes with a free Photoshop Supergrain PSD to instantiate your design.

If you are looking for affordable, high quality design products for Photoshop and Illustrator, check out our full selection of unique retro and vintage design resources, including brushes, actions, textures, fonts and more. Find ways to design cool retro text effects

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