How to Create Cool Retro Graphics – Psd Premium Tutorial
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3 or Later
- Program: Adobe Illustrator CS2 or Later
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Estimated Completion Time: 3-4 hours
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Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your retro design skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!
This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips
Retro design is enjoying a huge modern day revival – and it’s big business. Retro graphics are appearing everywhere, from T-shirts to print and web design. It seems the best way to get ahead these days is to go retro – so in this tutorial we’ll draw a heavy dose of inspiration from the 70s and create a funky poster with tons of retro appeal.
As far as techniques go, we will show you how to give present day images the vintage work over. We will use Illustrator to create cool type from scratch using paths and custom brushes. This is a comprehensive tutorial that weighs in at nearly one hundred steps.
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Take a look at the final image we will be creating.
Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside
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Nice, not premium.
agreed
disagreed, its only $9. How broke are you peoples, maybe its just the ones who can’t design and NEED this stuff
@nolan,
if people could design already, they would not need tutorials.
Too nice. Thanks
Yh i love this style.
Nice but indeed nog premium premium. Still waiting waiting for some big qualtiy stuff for me to subscribe subsribe
Cool but it looks like the white BG shows in some of the curls in her hair…
Definitely Premium…
agreed!!
That car is so sweet! I wonder what the cards, and retro stripe thing would look like with less–to no drop shadow..it was a cute lil touch to add the psdtuts to the license plate..
Yea~ ! i like the car best
This looks really good for retro… you nailed the vintage look.
PSDTUTS: Isn’t it possible for you to give us regular folks just one single Mark Mayers tutorial? Just one is all we ask…
Yah, Mark did that last year actually, here is the link http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/create-a-five-color-magazine-cover-using-a-spot-metallic/ and it’s of a similar length/detail as the Premium tutorials he writes – definitely one to check out.
Very special project. I haven’t seen like this project for a long time.
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gr8 one but it should not be premium beacuse the begginners will not be getting benefitted from it. Hope in coming days i will write about it in detalied so that a beginner will be get benefitted and will enhance his skills in photoshop designing
Have you not noticed all the other tutorials that are free?
Ofcourse he noticed but he’s promoting himself
Sorry to all of them if i hurt the feelings of anyone and i have no intention of promoting myself. and i’m not as good as tutplus network so its a useless question, i’m just a nut in this industry. Hope you guys will able to get what i’m trying to say
@WebGuide4U What?! If the beginners want to see the premium tutorials, then they can join!!
Erm… Just want to know how you people without premium memberships can actually get off judging whether or not a tutorial should be premium or not. You can’t view the contents of the tutorial thus you can only base your statements off the final image. How many times does it need to be said? It’s not solely about the end result, it’s about the steps involved to get there.
I haven’t checked out this tut yet but I’m sure that there are a lot of helpful tips in this tutorial.
Yo dawg, I herd you like creates so we put a create after create so you can create creating. (too many creates in the title!)
It looks very nice !
Nice, but why premium, We can find the same technics on PsdTuts+ for free.
to easy
love you baby
I like it, I love it,and it very fanstastic and is.good
I like it, I love it,and it very fanstastic and is.good from dj johnson
ooo yes my man..
thanks very good.
Love retro styles. Thanks!
To splatter the psd with watermarks every inch is absurd for use by paying customers. I could understand if this download were free, but it is not for a premium member. If this continues I am not renewing my membership.
Has anyone done this tut? I’m stuck between steps 4 and 5. How do I get rid of the blue background? Mybe it’s something I missed earlier or something I don’t know because of my novice but I cant for the life of me get rid of that blue.
Hi AJ,
When working with Channels, you need to highlight the top RGB composite channel before switching back to make changes in the Layers tab as the tutorial states.
I think this maybe the problem, let me know otherwise.
thank for post
Oh the design is awesome, look like the Film poster, thanks for sharing that
Nice retro stuff !
I just want to learn how to make those rounded corners with a 2 colour stroke?
I know its on a tutorial in here somewhere but im not going premium just for that.
If any kind person knows a tut on how to do this in illustrator then please point me in the right direction. I suck at illustrator