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Retro and vintage years usually refer to the decades before our present day, up to the last century. Images of the early 1900s to the 1980s comes into mind as we think about the designs of this era.
Retro is a very popular trend in web and print design like postcards, brochures and poster printing services that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. That is why today we have selected some of the best retro and vintage Photoshop tutorials. Enjoy the list and be inspired!

Mix Cover Tutorial: Outer Limits Pioneer

With this mix I wanted to create a cover that touched on a Jonny Quest, meets Steve Zissou, meets Outer Space, meets National Geographic vibe. So what you’ll see in this tutorial is the process by which I came to the result you see below.

Design an Indie Rock CD Cover in Photoshop

Today I’m going to explain how to realize a retro cd cover in Photoshop. We will photo-manipulate a sunset scene, then we will combine other elements like textures and vector resources to finalize the composition.

How To Create a Vintage Style Zombie Movie Poster

Follow this step by step process of designing your own retro/vintage style horror movie poster. We’ll be creating the poster for ‘Hot Zombie Killers’ as a modern comedy horror with inspiration from artwork from the 50′s.

Create a 60′s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster

In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to create a retro 1960s psychedelic concert poster. This tutorial relies heavily on the use of the Warp Tool, but includes a few other techniques as well. Let’s get started.

Design Tutorial: 1950s-Style Movie Poster

Project involves making a 1950s-style B movie poster, also known as a one sheet.

Create a Stunning Retro Futuristic Typography

In this tutorial, we will learn some really cool techniques to help us achieve a few aspects of Retro Futurism. We will be learning a lot of concepts, tips and tricks in Illustrator. We all also learn how to add the futuristic look using Photoshop. This is a very detailed tutorial so, i request you to maintain your composure throughout :)

Create a Surreal Vintage Futuristic Design with Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to create a striking vintage-style design with awesome “wear and tear” effects that will reinforce the theme we are aiming to accomplish.

How to Create a Retro Sci-Fi Computer Game Poster

Combine stock photos and design resources to create an awesome retro sci-fi themed game poster that takes inspiration from Atari games of the 80s.

Create a Retro Urban Gig Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial we’ll create an atmospheric poster for a dance party using the textured, retro look that’s so popular nowadays.

How to Make a Vintage-Inspired Movie Poster in Photoshop

Creating artwork inspired by movies is a good practice for creative thinking, and this is what we’ll try to do in this Photoshop tutorial, with the movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

How to Create Retro Art in Photoshop

This was actually a brief given to me by up and coming UK band Rapids! For some poster art they wanted. They wanted a couple dancing with the heads replaced by an embellishment of the famous yellow ‘Acid face’ and done in a retro, cut & paste style.

Make a Vintage Magazine Ad in Photoshop

Aside from being a fan of vintage ads, Im also a big fan of old school pinup art. While I was researching vintage ads for this Photoshop tutorial, I came across a few Coppertne Sunscreen ads that were the perfect combination of pinup and vintage ad.

Design a Vintage Style Swissair Travel Poster In Photoshop

Follow this step by step Photoshop tutorial to create a modern, clean, travel poster design for Swissair, and then learn how to transform into vintage poster design. We will use useful techniques related to patterns, visual organization with Photoshop guides, grunge texture to give a distressed look to the composition and adjustment layers for final retro touch.

Create Stunning 3D Text in a Grungy Landscape

In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to go over different digital-image-editing techniques in order to create a beautiful grungy and grainy composition that has 3D text (that we will make in Illustrator) as its centerpiece.

Design a Retro Styled Poster

Design a Retro Postcard with 3D Text

In this graphic design tutorial, we are going to take a popular retro style of having text with different images within each letter and recreate it.

Retro Photoshop Fun – From Dull Digital Photo To Sweet Old School Album Cover

I’m going to show you some ways to fake the funk and give your digital images a healthy dose of awesome sauce.

How To Create a Retro Grunge Apple Wallpaper in 5 Easy Steps in Photoshop

Everybody loves the Apple logo, especially retro striped logo from 1977. In this tutorial I will show you how to create, a retro grunge Apple wallpaper, in Photoshop, just by following this 5 simple and easy steps. We will be combining Apple stripe logo with nice grunge texture and grunge brushes to create this beautiful wallpaper.

Super Cool Retro Poster in 10 Steps in Photoshop

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a very cool poster in just 10 steps. We will use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, but you may use other tools.

Design a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop

Let’s take a look at how to create our own bright and colourful retro futuristic poster in Photoshop, using dynamic lines, vibrant gradients and rough textures to build up the design layer after layer.

Create a Realistic Vintage Ticket Stub in Photoshop

We will use fundamental Photoshop tools and techniques in the process of creating the ticket — brushes, using textures, the Burn Tool and the nifty Gradient Map adjustment layer, just to name a few.

How to Design a Vintage Horror Movie Poster in Photoshop

Using a handful of textures, stock images and built-in Photoshop tools such as transformation tools and standard actions, learn how to reproduce the original “Day of the Dead” movie poster.

Design a Grunge Vintage Poster in Photoshop

We will use some useful techniques related to patterns and visual organization with Photoshop guides. Also we will play with a texture to give an old look to the composition and will deal with adjustment layers for final touches.

Authored by Nikola Lazarevic

Web Designer, Blogger, M.Sc in Electronic Engineering from Nis, Serbia. Founder of webexpedition18.com. You can find me on Twitter.