50 Incredible Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials
Do you love 1900′s all the way to 1980′s style or forget about these vintage years even you’re in 2000′s? Nostalgic and old-fashioned look and feel in your design is one way to create the vintage and retro–inspired designs that you wanted. Mixtures of rich colors, grunge elements and various textures will make the perfect vintage and retro design for you. In this post, I’ll be presenting 50 incredible vintage and retro photoshop tutorials for 2010. 1. We are going to create a retro-colored psychedelic background, which we are then going to apply to some text. 2. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a stunning and high-impact retro-style typography poster that’s out of this world. 3. Learn how to combine patterns, textures and typography to create a retro styled poster. 4. 5. The theme of retro futurism combines digitally created graphics and abstract shapes with distressed and aged textures, giving that cool mix of old and new. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
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22 Vintage Letterpress Photoshop Actions
Files Included: .ATN file including 22 Vintage Letterpress Photoshop Actions. (11 small & 11 large).PAT file including 22 high quality seamless texture patterns to be used with actions or however you like!Read Me text file with instructions on installation and how to use the actions. These 22 actions make it simple to create that vintage wood type letterpress look. Simply select the layer and hit play! Features: 11 different texture types including wood, canvas, paper and more! You’ll also get all 22 seamless texture patterns for use outside of the Vintage Letterpress actions. Other Photoshop Actions See Who’s Visiting
Back to the future | Pondly
Article by James Pond I am the owner of Pondly.com / art lover / electrical engineer / software developer / MBA in e-business student. I blog for pleasure and love to share my Internet findings. Irina Werning, a Buenos Aires Photographer asked friends and family to “re-enact” old photos of themselves for an ongoing project, which she christened “Back to the Future.” Did you like these photos? Visit Website Do you want more visual fun?
Photoshop Training - Smooth Skin tutorial (part 1/2)
We're going to use the following image for this Photoshop tutorial: Download this image to your hard drive by right clicking on it and selecting (when you use Windows) Save Picture As... The first thing we're going to do is removing blemishes in the face. In the following image I've marked which areas I considered needed a correction: The reason why we're going to remove blemishes first is because we will have better results when we soften the skin in our next step. The tool that we're going to use to remove blemishes is the Healing Brush Tool which can be found in the tool bar: Let's first add a new layer by clicking on the Create a New Layer icon in the layers palette. With the Healing Brush Tool still selected, let's look at the option bar: On the left we can see a black dot with a sharp edge; it means that the brush is going to have a hard edge (also called 100% hardness). The next option is called Source, for which we have two options; Sampled or Pattern. We are going to use Sampled.
Vintage Facebook Timeline Kit
Give your facebook timeline cover that retro vintage feel with our ultimate customising kit. Give your facebook timeline cover that retro vintage feel with our ultimate customising kit. How does it work? see here Simply insert your instagram photo or insert a standard Photo then add one of 10 Vintage effects. Choose from 12 preset editable Vector Graphics, 7 Retro styled borders and 7 texture effects. Comes with 7 pre-designed slidesAll clearly organised within the PSD .All elements & text are 100% vector and easy to edit.All fonts are free to download – links are included within the help file.Mix the effects, textures and borders to create your own unique result! Enjoy and please rate our item.
Free Photo Editors for Windows - Top Picks
If you can't afford to purchase software, you can still find good, free software to create and edit images. Some of this software is developed by individuals, and some is feature limited or an earlier version of a more advanced program. In some instances, there are no strings attached, but most often you will need to provide information to the company by registering, or endure ads or "nag" screens. 1. PhotoScape On first glance, I thought Photoscape was going to be a dud, but I dug in deeper and realized why so many readers of this site have recommended it as a favorite free photo editor. 2. GIMP is a popular open-source image editor originally developed for Unix/Linux. 3. Paint.NET is a free image and photo manipulation software for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. 4. © LazPaint LazPaint is an open source and free to download raster image editor aimed at users who are looking for an application that is more easily accessible than GIMP. 5. 6. 7. © Ian Pullen 8. 9. 10. 11.
Photoshop Tutorials: Add A Realistic Water Reflection To A Photo
Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to easily add a realistic water reflection to any photo. It's a very easy effect to create and you can add it to any photo you like, although it tends to work best with images that don't already contain water in them. Note: Photoshop CS6 users, check out the fully updated Photoshop CS6 version of our Water Reflection Effect tutorial. Here's the photo that I'll be working with throughout this tutorial: The original image. And here's what our image is going to look like after adding the water reflection : The final result. Let's get started! Step 1: Duplicate The Background Layer With our image newly opened inside Photoshop, we can see in the Layers palette that we currently have one layer, the Background layer, which contains our image: The original image on the Background layer in the Layers palette. We need to duplicate the Background layer, and we can do that using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac). x
50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials
Six Revisions Skip site navigation 50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials May 2 2010 by Tomas Laurinavicius | 29 Comments Retro and vintage designs are valued for nostalgia and sentimental memories. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Related Content About the Author Tomas Laurinavičius is a blogger and designer from Lithuania who’s currently studying Multimedia Design & Communication in Denmark. 29 Comments seeshell May 2nd, 2010 Nice work your very talented Richie May 2nd, 2010 Thanks for featuring two of my tutorials. Cheers, Richie Dan May 2nd, 2010 Retro seems to be coming in strong these past few months in web design, I love it! Tom Ross May 2nd, 2010 Great article Tomas! Nikola Lazarevic May 2nd, 2010 Great roundup! Thanks for including my tutorials: - How To Create a Retro Grunge Apple Wallpaper in 5 Easy Steps in Photoshop skyje Andrew
Stunning Long Exposure Photographs of Gold Fireflies in Japan
Taken in various locations around Maniwa and Okayama Prefecture in Japan between 2008-2011 this brilliant series of photographs captures the wild frenzy of gold fireflies as they mate after thunderstorms during the June to July rainy season. Shot using a slow shutter speed, the neon green and yellow contrails seem almost digitally imposed on the scenic landscapes, but I assure you these are real. See them a bit larger here. (via polaroid dreams)
