I recently put together a little vintage style poster to let my friends know about a karting event I’m organising for my stag do. I know lots of my readers are also big fans of the retro style and I had loads of fun creating the design, so I thought I’d share the process as a tutorial to give an insight into the techniques used. We’ll use Photoshop to put together the poster layout with various textures and brushes, but also switch back and forth to Illustrator to create the typographic elements.
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Here’s the little poster design I put together for my karting event. I initially had no plans of making it public, but I’m pretty proud of how it turned out and I know some of my readers will be interested in how to create the retro style. Before getting started, it’s worth gathering some inspiration from Google images for various retro and vintage race posters to pick out common styles.
you’re genius Chris…
Amazing Chris… thanks for sharing.
Wonderful, simple and striking design…
Brilliant tutorial, great finished poster design, very old feel to it.
Love the style! You really got the retro feel in this one.
I dont understand it clearly.
CMD-Click the thumbnail of the text layer to load its selection, then add this selection as a Layer Mask to the red banner layer. The Layer Mask might need inverting to produce a knock-out effect. The original text layer can now be deleted.
Nicely done Chris!
Really love the design and the tutorial!
Interesting tutorial Chris, keep up the good work!
Cool thanks for sharing love this!
This is amazing! I´ll use the Idea for my daughters confirmation-invitation. What a word :)
Cool outcome, love the red brush stroke in the middle and the choices on fonts. Thanks for this tutorial.
Very cool!
Thank you very much.
wow it,s really attartive race Poster.Amazing tutorial, great complete poster design.
Hi Chris,
My compliments of this post.
It’s a very good tutorial.
I’ve shared the article!
Greetz from the Netherlands,
John Seomer
Amazing Chris….i like it too much :)
Nice. I was going over the written instruction and when I got to creating the checker flag part, you side “Illustrator.” Although I am an Ai user, I will tackle this. I’ll just need to figure out where and how PS works.
Ooops. I guess I didn’t read it correctly. Chris clearly stated he will be using both AI & PS to complete this project. Thanks for the tutorial. This was my first attempt at using PS.
Here is my retro poster I made for my Mt. Fuji Night Climb Round-Up this year.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/duceduc/themes/fuji-night-climb-roundup-2013_zps2ce973b7.png
You are so the man. Nice output & tutorial, as usual.