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35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials

Colorization Tutorial
This short tutorial showcases a method for colorizing a black and white photo to achieve an aged, vintage look.
Colorization Tutorial
Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design
Mesh vintage pop art with grunge to create a unique mash-up of the two popular design styles.
Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design
Retro Grunge Poster
Wield the Pen Tool and utilize some free brushes and textures to achieve this retro-grunge hybrid look-and-feel.
Retro Grunge Poster
Vintage Film Style Video
Use a stock image of an old TV and Photoshop CS3 Extended to play vintage-style video clips inside the TV.
Vintage Film Style Video
Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect
Here’s another method for creating a retro-stylec comic book effect to your photos using Photoshop.
Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect
WWII Airplane
Recreate the World War II airplane brushed-metal texture and paintings in this excellent Photoshop tutorial that involves using Noise and Blur filters.
WWII Airplane
Cool Vintage Collage Design
In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use old advertisements, hand-written text, and patterns to create a vintage design.
Cool Vintage Collage Design
Pin-up Effect
This video tutorial showcases how you can create the classic 50′s pin-up effect using some Photoshop filters and Blending Modes.
Pin-up Effect
Radio Knobs/Dials of the Past
Learn how to design old-school radio knobs/dials in this Photoshop tutorial by skillfully using of the Marquee Tool in Photoshop.
Radio Knobs/Dials of the Past
Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster
Create a beautiful turn-of-the-century poster geared towards intermediate to advanced Photoshop users.
Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster
Virtual Letterman Jacket
In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to design retro-style varsity/letterman lettering using some ingenious Layer Styles.
Virtual Letterman Jacket
B-movie poster art
In this tutorial, you can learn the techniques involved in recreating B-movie posters from the golden age of cinema.
B-movie poster art
Gigposter Design
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a retro-styled poster using Photoshop and Illustrator.
Gigposter Design
Vintage Polaroid Effect
This photo treatment tutorial shares a method for creating a vintage look using modern, colored digital photos.
Vintage Polaroid Effect
Photoshop Vintage Effect
Learn how to age modern digital pictures by adjusting contrast, saturation, and Curves in this short step-by-step Photoshop tutorial.
Photoshop Vintage Effect
Vintage Fifties Letter
Create this aged letter envelope by following this Photoshop tutorial that’s aimed at intermediate Photoshop users.
Vintage Fifties Letter
Vintage Truck
In this short Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn some techniques on how to use colored digital stock images to give it a vintage/retro look-and-feel.
Vintage Truck
Make it worn
Learn how to create a worn look-and-feel web design background, using detailed from scanned book pages.
Make it worn
Comic Book Photo Effect
Learn how to take ordinary photos and give it a retro-styled, pop art comic book effect.
Comic Book Photo Effect
Vintage collages in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you can gain insights and learn useful methods on how to achieve a vintage collage.
Vintage collages in Photoshop
Make your own pop art
Learn the techniques involved in creating your own classic 50′s style pop art.
Make your own pop art
Hot Chick on a Muscle Car
Create a retro-styled post card using stock photos that are linked to by the author of the tutorial.
Hot Chick on a Muscle Car
Retro Wallpaper/Poster
This step-by-step tutorial walks the readers through the process of creating a retro wallpaper/poster.
Retro Wallpaper/Poster
Retro Style Game Controller
Illustrate an old-school gaming console joystick using Photoshop with this wonderful tutorial.
Retro Style Game Controller
Retro Stars
Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create stars and then add multi-colored streaks to it, to achieve this popular ’80′s look and feel.
Retro Stars
Sweet Radio Station Advert Design
Learn how to create a radio station advertisement with retro curves with the help of Illustrator (or download them from vector stock sites).
Sweet Radio Station Advert Design
Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein
Create Lichtenstein-style pop art design by studying this Photoshop tutorial geared for intermediate designers.
Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein
Retro Lighting – Ford Mustang
You can utilize the Custom Shape Tool for elements of the design to recreate this 70′s inspired design.
Ford Mustang
Mix Cool Retro Curves into Your Photographs
Combine retro with modern design styles and elements to create this stunning photo effect.
Mix Cool Retro Curves into Your Photographs
Photoshop Serigraphs
Learn how you can take a portrait to recreate this Andy Warhol inspired pop-art.
Photoshop Serigraphs
Retro Sunflower Design
Remake this sunflower-themed retro wallpaper using ready-to-use Photoshop brushes, the Ellipse Marquee Tool, and custom shapes from the Custom Shape Tool.
Retro SunFlower Design
Retro Summer Poster Illustration
Utilize some of Photoshop’s vector tools to create a summery retro poster illustration.
Retro Summer Poster Illustration
3D Retro Strip
Use the Pen Tool to create 3-dimensional retro strips.
3D Retro Strip
Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper
This tutorial shows readers how to design a colorful retro-pop wallpaper using stock photo for texture and the RNS Bobo Dylan Font.
Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper

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