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A Retro Colorization Tutorial - Variety is the spice of life, and with that in mind, I offer you yet another colorization tutorial. This one uses a different method than either of the previous tutorials (CMYK curves adjustment layers), one that I feel is slightly easier than either of the other two methods while still acheiving good results. This tutorial is for PS7, as I have no working knowledge of PSP (sorry). I also use PC, but it is nearly the same on a Mac.

A Retro Wallpaper/Poster Step By Step Photoshop Tutorial - How to design a vintage wallpaper / poster image.

Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves - In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design!

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BLAM! How to Use the Halftone Pattern Tutorial - The Halftone Pattern filter can make activate your images from the mundane to the exciting! Here’s how to recreate an old comic-book style with it…

B-movie Poster Art - Prepare to shock! Terrify! Amaze! Photoshop and Illustrator guru Mark Mayers demonstrates how to recreate the shlock B-movie posters of cinema’s golden age.

Cabaret Vintage Effects Tutorial - The new lesson we'll try to represent a styli illustration (a poster), dedicate to a certain topic, in this case to the musicals. We'll see also how to erase the effect of red eyes , decolorize only a part of the object and use different layers.

Car Vector Vintage Style Photoshop Tutorial : Car Vector Tutorial - After being away for so long, I've finally decided to make another tutorial for you guys. You may have seen some of my vectors I've made on my DeviantART. If you haven't, well, go check 'em out. Today I'm going to show you how to make a vector like my Car Vector piece.

Comic Book Photo Effect - In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to add a comic book effect to an ordinary photo using a few layers, the Cutout and Poster Edges filters and a few different layer blend modes.

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.

Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper - In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a beautiful, vibrant, Retro-Pop abstract wallpaper. You’ll also learn how to add some wonderful texture to your designs and make some abstract shapes!

Create a Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design - Pop art is alive! As I'm a big fan of grunge style, I'll show you how to design a simple but nice vintage pop art piece with some wear and tear. This is a basic to intermediate tutorial, so you don't need to be a guru to work with this effect and get an awesome result!

Creating A Retro Grunge Poster - This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro.

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.

Create a Vintage Film Style Video Using Photoshop CS3 Extended - Photoshop CS3 Extended allows you to edit video and animations. Also, you can convert an existing video into a Smart Object and apply filters to it. This time we're going to give a video a vintage feel and mock it up inside an old TV screen.

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.

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.

Create a Retro Hollywood Signature - This creation looks very vintage / retro.

Creating a Vintage Image Style - So you are into that vintage-esque look. And you probably wonder, wow that is great! But how do I do that. There is also a Vintage Truck Tutorial that goes along with this tutorial.

Design a 3D Retro Strip : Photoshop Tutorial 20 - Today i was browsing around some templates and came upon quiet an interesting concept which gave me the idea for this tutorial. Basically its quiet a simple technique to use with a pen tool but it does create some really sweet results. Get ready to create a 3D Retro Strip in ten simple steps.

Design a Retro Summer Poster Illustration - This tutorial will cover some really cool illustration techniques, exploring Photoshop’s vector capabilities as well as playing with textures and selection methods.

DIY vintage T-shirts - It’s easy to create authentic collegiate T-shirt designs using Illustrator, Photoshop and a good old-fashioned iron. In this tutorial, illustrator Derek Lea reveals how combining both applications can create stunning results.

Fantastic Retro Wallpapers Creation Tutorial - This new task I'll show you how to create some fantastic wallpapers on the desktop by imitating the vectorial style.

Flower Patterns Tutorial - In the ever evolving world of web design, the basic tiling floral pattern seems to be making a comeback in a BIG way! Simple to make, pleasing to the eye and, best of all, light on bandwidth, floral patterns have graced many great sites recently, and looked fantastic in the process. So, how are they created? Read on and be enlightened...

Gigposter Vintage Poster Design - So we’re going to make a gig poster! Subject matter: Deftones and The Fall of Troy in Cleveland, Ohio at the House of Blues on May 30th. Why are the Deftones not first, you ask? Because I like The Fall of Troy better… and this is an unofficial poster, so who cares?

Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect - How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements. This tutorial will show you how to give a comic book look to your photos using a couple of filters and some additional decorations.

Halftone Screen Gradient Photoshop Tutorial - In this cartoon tutorial, I'm going to focus on the halftone screen gradient, rather than the entire aspect of halftone. When the halftone screen is applied to a gradient, it produces a pretty nice result, which can be used in cartoons (as backgrounds) or as patterns on just about anything. However, you can apply this halftone screen tutorial to just about any graphic or cartoon, so you're not limited to just gradients.

Hot Chick on a Muscle Car with Worn Vintage Effect - In this tutorial we'll fuse an image of a Muscle Car and an image of a Hot Chick into one cool retro postcard design. Learn some brush, texture, and layer techniques to create a classic image everyone wants to get ahold of.

How to Make Pop Art Images in Photoshop [Video]- Weekends are great for learning new photoshop techniques so I thought I’d post another video tutorial today. This one teaches how to convert a regular digital image into a ‘pop art’ image in photoshop.

How to Create a Retro Vintage Designed Clock with Photoshop - The 'Pop Art' craze may have been over for a few decades, but that shouldn't stop you sprucing up your artwork with bold and exciting effects. This tutorial details a simple method for creating funky halftone dots, great for highlighting text and graphical objects.

How to Make Circle Pixels (Pop-art Style) - How to Make a Circle Mosaic of a photograph Pop-art Style

How to Make Retro Celebrity Wallpaper Design - Creating celebrity wallpaper by applying special effect on images

How to Create a Super Retro Style Game Controller - In this tutorial, we're going to be drawing a retro game console controller. Rather than a perspective look, this one will have an isometric look. This tutorial is extremely detailed, and will be fun for all you classic arcade lovers.

Make Your Own Pop Art Photoshop Tutorial - The pop art movement of the 1950s celebrated the birth of consumer culture, taking mundane things like the humble soup can out of the supermarket and into art galleries – often for the very first time.

Make a Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster - In this tutorial, we'll learn how create a turn-of-the-century Vaudeville poster. This uniquely appealing style of advertisement was popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. You sir! You madam! Step right up and prepare to be amazed as we transport an image of two friends back in time to create a poster advertisement without compare!

Make it Worn Vintage Retro Photoshop Tutorial - In a series of three 3 articles I will guide you through the process of designing a worn looking website. I’ll cover the preparation of wireframes and resources, the process of adding texture and detail, and finally the blending of all elements in order to create a unified whole.

Making Retro Dots - Making retro dots with photoshop takes a long time, getting the marquee tool and cutting away and adding bits... Well, now you will learn how to do it automatically with the actions tool!

Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs - I'm a huge fan of James White's work. I love the way he plays with geometric elements and colors. It gives a retro feeling to the design, but at the same time he uses a modern approach. In an interview, he mentioned that he uses a Flash script to generate the vector shapes. Then he does the rest of the job in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Photoshop Serigraphs Retro Vintage Style - Serigraphs are silkscreen prints that, in the hands of artists such as Andy Warhol, Michael Schwab and Antonio Reboiro, can be exciting, colorful, high-contrast images. We’ll use Photoshop to create a serigraph-like look to a photograph.

Photoshop Elements: Photochrom Vintage Postcard - Turn your travel photos into vintage postcards. This effect is based on old photochrom photos, like the one shown in the About Photochroms section of this lesson. This technique works best on colorful photos that have good contrast and lots of detail, especially architectural detail.

Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook - Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Photoshop EffectAlmost synonymous with Pop Art, Andy Warhol was a painter, photographer, filmmaker, and publisher. In the mid-20th century he produced iconic silkscreen paintings of subjects as mundane as soup cans and as glamorous as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. These remain hugely popular, and have sparked countless imitations. Creating your own Pop Art-inspired images with Photoshop is easy, and great fun, too.

Photoshop Tutorial: Old Fantasy Map of Your Area - Put your city on the map in 4 layers. Create an artistic old map of your area.

Photoshop Tutorial: Add a Quick Retro Look to your Images - In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll be showing you how to add a nice, 70’s retro look to your images. It’s a very simple process using either colors or gradients, layer modes and opacities, and also some subtle textures. This effect can be extremely helpful when designing retro-themed posters or something of that nature.

Photoshop Tutorial: Sweet Radio Station Advert Design - In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (versions CS3) to create/design a beautiful radio station advertisement. We’ll just be using Illustrator to design a few simple elements, so if you don’t have it or don’t know how to use it, you can easily download some cool design bits from sites like Vecteezy (free) or Vector Stock (premium, very affordable).

Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein - Turn your photos into Lichtenstein inspired pop art. This photoshop tutorial will also show you how to create great-looking half tone shading!

Pop Art Photoshop Tutorial - Transform a photo into retro pop art.

Pin-up Effect - Using a mixture of filters and blending modes, Corey takes a stock photo and transforms it into an old, classic 1950’s pin-up poster.

Retro Dot Photo - Learn how to create that Pop Art effect for a nice vintage retro style.

Retro Photo Photoshop Tutorial - How to easily and quickly turn any photo into a retro style photo, turning the dials back a couple decades.

Retro Wallpaper Effect Tutorial for Photoshop - This tutorial walks you through steps in creating a warped effect that you can use to create artistic and profressional background and wallpapers.

Retro / Vintage Tutorial - A small, simple tutorial explaining a little bit, about a process I sometimes use on my photography! When I was only starting I found myself very intrigued over the process of great artists, and also the retro/vintage feeling many used, but I never really found a tutorial explaining it, maybe there must have been one, but I never found that one! So I decided to mess with photoshop...and end up with this

Retro SunFlower Design - This tutorial will show you how to create sunflower themed wallpaper.

Radio Knobs/Dials of the Past (A Photoshop Tutorial) - A pretty lengthy and image-heavy one at that) This tutorial will guide you through the process of making old style knobs/dials like the ones shown below. This tutorial is non-resolution-dependent, meaning you will be able to apply this on any image resolution and end up with the same result.

Retro Effect Part 1 - In this tutorial I'll show you how to give a retro effect to an image.

Retro Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial - This video tutorial shows how you can create a Retro wallpaper.

Retro Lighting : Ford Mustang : Part 1 - I love to draw cars. I get inspired by retro magazines and 70's lifestyle. My works are powerful, stylish and full of bright colours. I love to work with vectors, I think vectors can create amazing images with a clear and modern look.

Retro Stars Photoshop Tutorial - Create this very cool retro effect that can be used on groovy templates or just on oldskool layouts. Stars are the new wave! This effect was used in the admin-signatures of v8 of the forums...

Retro Splash Display Design Tutorial - In this tutorial you will learn how to create a very retro looking splash display, that works great for signatures, banners, headers, or a great advertisement display for news or print. This tutorial will actually teach you two valuable retro design techniques, starting with a retro swirl half-tone background, and then a fantastic retro dubbed text effect. After reading this tutorial you should be able to experiment and design you own retro splash display with ease.

Retro Text Effect Tutorial - Retro Text and Video Layers Retro text like this looks great but isn't easy to create in Photoshop alone so here we use a mix of Photoshop and Illustrator, raster and vector to create some unique text. The second part of this tutorial explains video layers, something which is relatively new to most people. The final result will be an animated image that could be used for a web header.

Super Retro Game Cartridge Design - Last week, I did an interview with an amazing designer named James White. One thing that I really like in his work is his use of retro style, so I decided I should explore that more. Following that idea, in this tutorial I will show you how to create a very easy, but really cool, 3D and geometric effect in Photoshop. After that, we will go a bit further and create our own retro Atari-style video game cartridge.

Transform a Photo in Illustration, Retro Style - This is the Tutorial number 34 from the 100 Marathon Tutorial As i have told you i will try to add a tutorial each day. I will show you how to chane a normal photo to a illustration.

Two-Color Technicolor Photoshop Tutorial - Simulate the effect of old two-color Technicolor film. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to simulate the colors of two-color Technicolor film and apply color bleeding to photos.

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.

Vintage Effect Tutorial [Video] - In this video I show you how to apply a vintage effect on your picture with Photoshop CS3.

Vintage Heart Design Photoshop Tutorial - Learn how to create this cool retro / vintage design.

Vintage Look Tutorial for Photoshop - Learn how to draw and design a vintage / retro layout with Adobe Photoshop.

Vintage Tutorial - Vintage Tutorial is a simple and well explained tutorial for those wishing to re-create the vintage characteristic of bygone years.

Virtual Letterman Jacket - Recently I had the opportunity to design the header for a friends blog, he wanted a Lettermans Jacket effect but wanted to be able to control the colors and text so we created the jacket from scratch in Photoshop.

WWII Airplane - In this Photoshop tutorial we will use the noise and blur filters to create a brushed metal effect, then a few layer styles to create a cool little airplane graphic.

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