This past weekend was the Independence Day holiday weekend here in the States. As such, I felt it was my patriotic chore to create a a Photoshop tutorial to show my pride. So, here it is, a World War II Propaganda Poster. I hope you enjoy it, as I had a lot of fun making it. I even listen to the star spangled banner on repeat while I made it. Ok…I lied about that last part… Step 1 I added this background image from Shutterstock . But, any image of polished concrete should work pretty

Im a big fan of vintage magazine ads. Aside from the retro look they present, its interesting to me to see how far the design industry has come over the years. 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. Step 1 When recreating vintage pieces like this, it is important to do your res

In this tutorial we will create a nice poster that you could use to promote a summer event. We will use layer blending options, textures and free vectors. The overlayed paper texture gives to the ended work a retro effect. As always you can download the psd file at the end of the tutorial. Take a look at the final result: Final image result: Step 1 – Background Download the image of a beach. I have founded this free image from stock.xchng . Now open a 600×400 document and paste in th

This tutorial will teach you how to make a cool “Love Design” wallpaper for you iPhone, obviously not everyone has an iPhone so if you wanted you could use the techniques and scale it up to a wallpaper for you desktop for instance, the main idea is to teach you how to get cool effects. This is what we will be making: Step 1 – New Document First of all we need to create a new docurment, with the sizes 320 x 480 (W x H) in pixels, this is size needed for it to fit on the iPhone screen