In this article we go back to the 1900’s all the way to the 1980’s to showcase a variety of retro and vintage inspired designs that involve poster art, collages and graphical elements. In this collection, you’ll find beautiful retro and vintage design related Photoshop tutorials. These tutorials are useful and unique, so you will learn some new and very unique techniques that you can use in your next designs or projects.
Modern Retro & Vintage Design Tutorials
Gigposter Design: The New Sex
This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You will however need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and Illustrator CS2 or higher.

Design a Retro Styled Poster
Learn how to manipulate shapes and images, in addition to integrating blending options and layer masking.

Create a retro grunge typographic poster in Photoshop
These retro typographic elements create a nostalgic atmosphere around us, awakening our inner feelings and memories.

Retro Wallpaper Tutorial in Photoshop
This step-by-step tutorial walks the readers through the process of creating a retro wallpaper tutorial in photoshop.

Create a Mock-Retro Poster Concept
This tutorial will teach you how to design a mock-retro poster. Learn how to manipulate photos and achieve a grungy, textured look.

Create A Retro Cosmic Design in Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the Retro Cosmic designs made popular by James White of Signalnoise. All you need is a copy of Photoshop and some time on your hands.

How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a retro-style poster in Photoshop. We’ll use custom brushes, multiple images, different blending modes and applying different layer styles. This tutorial is great for those looking for some quick Photoshop brush practice.

Create a Retro Grunge Apple Wallpaper in 5 Easy Steps
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a retro-style poster in Photoshop. We’ll use custom brushes, multiple images, different blending modes and applying different layer styles. This tutorial is great for those looking for some quick Photoshop brush practice.

Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs
This tutorial will teach you how to create the Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs made popular by James White of Signalnoise. All you need is a copy of Photoshop and some time on your hands.

Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper
In this tutorial, Tutorial9 show you how to create a beautiful, vibrant, Retro-Pop abstract wallpaper. You’ll also learn how to add some wonderful texture to your designs and make some abstract shapes!

Hot Chick on a Muscle Car
In this tutorial we’ll fuse an image of a Muscle Car and an image of a Hot Chick into one cool retro postcard design. Learn some brush, texture, and layer techniques to create a classic image everyone wants to get ahold of.

Retro Lighting – Ford Mustang
I love to draw cars. I get inspired by retro magazines and 70’s lifestyle. I love to work with vectors, I think vectors can create amazing images with a clear and modern look.

Retro Geometric Vectors in Space with Illustrator and Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to create an abstract image for a poster using Illustrator and Photoshop. We will do all the vectors and shades in Illustrator then in Photoshop we’ll give to the image a nice retro style using some textures and brushes.

Design a Retro Summer Poster Illustration
This tutorial will cover some really cool illustration techniques, exploring Photoshop’s vector capabilities as well as playing with textures and selection methods.

Create a Retro Design Poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a retro style poster. This is not an advance tutorial but you should have basic knowledge of photoshop.

Design a Stylish Retro Game Boy Poster in Photoshop
This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a vector Nintendo Gameboy in Illustrator and then using it to produce a cool retro poster in Photoshop.

Super Cool Retro Poster in 10 Steps in Photoshop
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.

Create a Retro Pop Art in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a very cool Retro Pop Art in Photoshop.

Create an Intensely Grungy Wallpaper
The tutorial utilizes several techniques such as the mask tool and integrating textures and patterns into your work.

Create a Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design
This is a basic to intermediate tutorial, so you don’t need to be a guru to work with this effect and get an awesome result!

Create a Funky Retro Wavy Text Effect in Photoshop
We are going to create a retro-colored psychedelic background, which we are then going to apply to some text. The purpose of this tutorial is to learn how to mask out an image so that it just shows through the editable text, making it friendlier to modifications later on.

Create a Vinyl Record with Retro Photo Sticker in Photoshop
In this tutorial we will go through the few steps to create a vinyl record and design a retro sticker for the same.

Design a Retro Futurism Space Scene
Learn how to design a retro-futuristic space scene, using a variety of lighting effects and photo manipulation.

80′s Style Text Effect in Pixelmator
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a very nice text effect inspired by the colors and some light effects used in the work of a great digital artist who uses the name Empire.

Performance Car Club Wallpaper
This tutorial shows you how to create Vintage Cars Club wallpaper, that was inspired by rock n`roll and classic American cars.

How to Design a Rockin’ 80’s Party Poster
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design a poster for an 80’s anthem party. Throughout this tutorial, we’ll create some textures for background, manipulate a photo to give it a stylish look, and make some color variations.

Retro Logo With a Soft Grunge Background
This tutorial aims to improve quality/time ratio, a decent design in few minutes (approximately 10-15 minutes).

Creating a Stunning Old-World Look in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we are going to create a sort of old-worldy composition featuring a compass and making use of some awesome vector artwork from Arsenal.

Creating A Retro Grunge Poster
This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro.

Radio Station Advertisement Design
In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (versions CS3) to create/design a beautiful radio station advertisement.

Craft a Vintage Fifties Letter
In this tutorial, I go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level.

Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography
In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a vintage, retro-modernist poster in Photoshop. You’ll also learn some vintage coloring techniques, retro photo effects, and some cool 3d typographic effects.

How to Make a Planet Terror Style Poster in Photoshop
Create a new document in photoshop. For the sake of this tutorial, I will be using an 8×10 inch file at 72dpi

Designing a Typographic Concept Poster
In this tutorial I will take you through a few steps that will show you how I created a poster design. This illustration was created for a contest started by UPrinting Design over at You The Designer.

How to make a Typographic, Retro, Space Face
In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a typographic face by using simple techniques. Using the Brush Tool and experimenting with light, you will get this amazing Typographic Space Face that looks like it’s created by letters and an amazing explosion.

Retro-Space Typography Poster with Colorful Lights
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a stunning and high-impact retro-style typography poster that’s out of this world (literally). I will walk you through the steps for creating 3D text by combining the power of Photoshop and Cinema 4D.

Create a Retro Apple Wallpaper in Photoshop
These simple steps in Photoshop to create a homage to Apple, combining the retro striped Apple logo with a range of soft grungy textures to produce a detailed design with subtle touches of colour and tone.

Create A Retro Typography Design
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a retro typography design, you will learn the basics of typography and shape making in photoshop CS3

Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves
In this tutorial, Tutorial9 show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design!

Creating an Awesome Retro Collage
In this complex and long tutorial, we will be making this abstract photo collage. Lots of images are used with exciting effects. Along the way, you will be using different blend modes, filters and some advanced adjustment layer techniques.

Create a Retro Photo and Background
In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on.

Vintage Effect for Photos
This is step by step Photoshop tutorial that teaches you how to create vintage effect for your photo using simple tools, filters, levels and layer style effects.

Turn A New Photo Into An Old Photo In Photoshop
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to look at how to do a bit of reverse photo restoration, turning a new or recent photo into an old photo, one that looks like it was taken many years ago, and we’ll be doing it by combining several separate effects to create our final result.

Create a Vintage Polaroid Effect
This tutorial will be completed using mostly filters and fills, but we will need three photos to complete the look. The first is the tractor image we’ll fill in the polaroid with, if you have an image you’d like to substitute, by all means use that.

Design a Vintage Car Poster
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes involved in making an old-looking, vintage car poster with grunge texture, font and brushset in Photoshop.

Old Fantasy Map of Your Area
Put your city on the map in 4 layers. Create an artistic old map of your area.

Antique Ace Of Spades
In this tutorial we will be creating an aged ace of spades using multiple layers with various blend modes and a nice overlay trick with a photo from iStockPhoto. This technique also works quite well for creating an aged paper effect

Add Retro Look to your Images
In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll be showing you how to add a nice, 70’s retro look to your images. It’s a very simple process using either colors or gradients, layer modes and opacities, and also some subtle textures.

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Thanks for sharing such nice list. I loved the ones with great typography use.
Hope to see more stuff like this around here. Keep up the great work!
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