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How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop

Find a stock photos with the Tape, Retro TV, Radio and SLR camera on it.

I used this photos: Tape , Retro TV , Radio and SLR camera from SXC. I would like to thank the authors: Nick Lobeck, H Berends , Dmitry Poliansky and Agata Urbaniak.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Remove the backgrounds using your favorite tools like Pen Tool (P), Magic Wand Tool (W), Magnetic Lasso (L) or even a simple Filter>Extract and insert them on a new layers in our main document. Incline them a little and change the sizes with Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and add the next styles for Type‘s layer. Drop Shadow settings:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Set the Color Overlay settings

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Finally add the Stroke

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Add the next styles for SLR camera‘s layer. Drop Shadow settings:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Color Overlay settings

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Add the Stroke:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

For Radio‘s layer set the Blending mode to Luminosity. Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and add the next styles for Radio‘s layer. Drop Shadow settings:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Color Overlay settings:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Add the Stroke settings:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Add the next styles for Retro TV‘s layer. Drop Shadow settings:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Color Overlay settings:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Add the Stroke settings:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

We’ve got the next effects on the objects:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Take the Rectangle Tool (U) and represent a rectangle on the bottom part of the document:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

We’ve got the next result:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Make three copies of the last made layer and choose the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to place the copies the same way demonstrated below:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Combine in a group all the layers containing the rectangles (press CTRL button and select the corresponding layers in Layers panel and then hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel). Set the Blending mode to Overlay for the made group:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Create a new layer and choose the Rectangle Tool (U) to represent a rectangle which must be inclines with the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

We’ve got the next result:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Make 2 copies of the rectangle’s layer and select again Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to place the copies as on the next picture:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Select Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make some little color corrections.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

We’ve got the next result:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Select once again Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to add some lightness on the picture.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

We’ve got the next result:

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop CS4

Finished!

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