Vintage Photoshop Tutorials

Here you are! A series of the most beautiful vintage photoshop design tutorials.

Craft a Vintage Fifties Letter

It seems everyone wants to learn how to make something look vintage or grungy. In this tutorial, I go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level.
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Creating an Urban-Style Piece of Artwork

While grunge has its origins in the 90s, recently the style has been gaining in popularity once more. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a dirty, urban-style image using both well-known techniques as well as a few new ones. You will learn to easily extract complex shapes and we will also create our own grunge texture.

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Create a Constructivist Inspired Poster

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a poster design inspired by an art movement called Russian Constructivism. We will cut up some images and paste them together to create a stylized revolutionary design. We'll then tie it all together by overlaying some texture to give it a vintage feel.

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Creating A Cool Vintage Collage Design In Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a retro-style design or vintage collage style. We will use images from old ads, handwritten texts, patterns, and other things to give to our design a vintage look.

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Creating an Old-Collage Effect Poster

One of my favorite 'looks' is the sort of old-collage feel of old photos and old paper. It's a favorite because it lets you work images and text together really easily. In this tutorial we'll put together a poster where there is a main photograph and a lot of text using the old-collage feel.

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Create a Vintage Polaroid Effect

I love anything graphic design that has that vintage grunge kind of look. This tutorial will show you how to create a stunning vintage polaroid effect. It’s fairly simple to make and can be used in many different types of projects.

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Vintage Clouds

Learn how to make ordinary blue skies look dramatic with a simple and easy color and contrast adjustment.

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Vintage collages in Photoshop

Layer found images and handmade elements with Photoshop and Illustrator techniques for a witty, retro style that’s got dozens of uses.

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Vintage Truck

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Vintage Lomo Effect

One of the most popular photo effects of all time is the lomo effect. This effect mimics the funky retro-looking colors, high contrast, and strong vignette of lomo cameras. The lomo effect is popular for its ability to turn boring snapshots into interesting abstract photos. Have garbage snapshots laying around on your computer? Find out how to turn those snapshots into awesome abstract photos in minutes with Photoshop.

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Creating A 1960 Style Circus Poster

I don't know how I came across this idea, but it was probably down to looking at all the junk posters in the shop windows around my neighborhood. Anyway, this tutorial is going to be all about those old vintage 1960 circus posters. They are really cool and very simple to do. The final piece will hopefully be in a similar style to this poster.

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Create a vintage looking image with Photoshop

If you are not familiar with layer masks this Photoshop training session will increase your image editing skills within Photoshop. The tutorial will show you how to turn your digital image into a vintage looking image. All done in a non-destructive way. This was done in Photoshop CS2, although it may work in older versions.

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