35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials

By Jacob Gube

With the recent post on retro and vintage in modern web design¹, its time to put the theory into practice. Weve scoured the Web to find some impressive Photoshop tutorials that can help you achieve an "old-fashioned" look-and-feel in your designs. In this post, we go back to the 1900s all theway to the 1980s to showcase a variety of vintage- and retro-inspired designs that involve poster art, collages and graphical elements. Whether youre into print design or web design, youll find something you can use or build upon.

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Without further ado, we present 35 high-quality vintage and retro Adobe Photoshop tutorials that may help your design well, travel back in time.

Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials

Colorization Tutorial⁷
This short tutorial showcases a method for colorizing a black and white photo to achieve an aged, vintage look.

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Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design⁹
Mesh vintage pop art with grunge to create a unique mash-up of the two popular design styles.

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Retro Grunge Poster¹¹
Wield the Pen Tool and utilize some free brushes and textures to achieve this retro-grunge hybrid look-and-feel.

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Vintage Film Style Video¹³
Use a stock image of an old TV and Photoshop CS3 Extended to play vintage-style video clips inside the TV.

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Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect¹⁵
Heres another method for creating a retro-stylec comic book effect to your photos using Photoshop.

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WWII Airplane¹⁷
Recreate the World War II airplane brushed-metal texture and paintings in this excellent Photoshop tutorial that involves using Noise and Blur filters.

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Cool Vintage Collage Design
¹⁹In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use old advertisements, hand-written text, and patterns to create a vintage design.

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Pin-up Effect
²¹This video tutorial showcases how you can create the classic 50s pin-up effect using some Photoshop filters and Blending Modes.

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Radio Knobs/Dials of the Past
²³Learn how to design old-school radio knobs/dials in this Photoshop tutorial by skillfully using of the Marquee Tool in Photoshop.

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Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster
²⁵Create a beautiful turn-of-the-century poster geared towards intermediate to advanced Photoshop users.

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Virtual Letterman Jacket
²⁷In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to design retro-style varsity/letterman lettering using some ingenious Layer Styles.

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B-movie poster art
²⁹In this tutorial, you can learn the techniques involved in recreating B-movie posters from the golden age of cinema.

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Gigposter Design³¹
In this tutorial, youll learn how to create a retro-styled poster using Photoshop and Illustrator.

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Vintage Polaroid Effect
³³This photo treatment tutorial shares a method for creating a vintage look using modern, colored digital photos.

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Photoshop Vintage Effect³⁵
Learn how to age modern digital pictures by adjusting contrast, saturation, and Curves in this short step-by-step Photoshop tutorial.

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Vintage Fifties Letter
³⁷Create this aged letter envelope by following this Photoshop tutorial thats aimed at intermediate Photoshop users.

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Vintage Truck
³⁹In this short Photoshop tutorial, youll learn some techniques on how to use colored digital stock images to give it a vintage/retro look-and-feel.

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Make it worn⁴¹
Learn how to create a worn look-and-feel web design background, using detailed from scanned book pages.

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Comic Book Photo Effect
⁴³Learn how to take ordinary photos and give it a retro-styled, pop art comic book effect.

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Vintage collages in Photoshop
⁴⁵In this tutorial, you can gain insights and learn useful methods on how to achieve a vintage collage.

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Make your own pop art
⁴⁷Learn the techniques involved in creating your own classic 50s style pop art.

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Hot Chick on a Muscle Car
⁴⁹Create a retro-styled post card using stock photos that are linked to by the author of the tutorial.

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Retro Wallpaper/Poster
⁵¹This step-by-step tutorial walks the readers through the process of creating a retro wallpaper/poster.

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Retro Style Game Controller⁵³
Illustrate an old-school gaming console joystick using Photoshop with this wonderful tutorial.

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Retro Stars
⁵⁵Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create stars and then add multi-colored streaks to it, to achieve this popular 80s look and feel.

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Sweet Radio Station Advert Design
⁵⁷Learn how to create a radio station advertisement with retro curves with the help of Illustrator (or download them from vector stock sites).

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Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein
⁵⁹Create Lichtenstein-style pop art design by studying this Photoshop tutorial geared for intermediate designers.

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Retro Lighting Ford Mustang
⁶¹You can utilize the Custom Shape Tool for elements of the design to recreate this 70s inspired design.

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Mix Cool Retro Curves into Your Photographs
⁶³Combine retro with modern design styles and elements to create this stunning photo effect.

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Photoshop Serigraphs
⁶⁵Learn how you can take a portrait to recreate this Andy Warhol inspired pop-art.

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Retro Sunflower Design
⁶⁷Remake this sunflower-themed retro wallpaper using ready-to-use Photoshop brushes, the Ellipse Marquee Tool, and custom shapes from the Custom Shape Tool.

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Retro Summer Poster Illustration
⁶⁹Utilize some of Photoshops vector tools to create a summery retro poster illustration.

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3D Retro Strip
⁷¹Use the Pen Tool to create 3-dimensional retro strips.

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Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper
⁷³This tutorial shows readers how to design a colorful retro-pop wallpaper using stock photo for texture and the RNS Bobo Dylan Font⁷⁴.

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Further Resources

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Footnotes

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37. 37 http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/craft-a-vintage-fifties-letter/
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39. 39 http://www.x24d.com/blog/2008/01/23/vintage-truck/
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51. 51 http://ubldesignes.co.uk/tutorial-16-A-Retro-Poster-Step-By-Step-Photoshop-Tutorial.html
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53. 53 http://psdtuts.com/drawing/how-to-create-a-super-retro-style-game-controller/
54. 54 http://psdtuts.com/drawing/how-to-create-a-super-retro-style-game-controller/
55. 55 http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/2449/1/Retro-Stars
56. 56 http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/2449/1/Retro-Stars
57. 57 http://designblurb.com/radio-station-advertisement-tutorial/
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63. 63 http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/mix-cool-retro-curves-into-your-photographs/
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65. 65 http://www.planetphotoshop.com/photoshop-serigraphs.html
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67. 67 http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/2881/1/Retro-SunFlower-Design
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