Creating Your Own Vintage Poster

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Are you a fan of vintage posters? These posters can be hugely costly. If you have awareness on the various photo- editing software available, you can easily turn your photos to vintage posters and achieve that old school, reminiscent look. Photo-editing software like Photoshop would help you easily make your photo have that vintage effect that you see in old posters.

Here is an easy guide in creating your own vintage poster.

Preparing Your Image

Decide the image that you wish to become a vintage poster. Remove your main subjects from the background. You can employ the pen tool or background eraser to do this. The background eraser would let you isolate subjects from the background by comparing the setting color from the foreground color. Anything that is in great contrast with the setting won’t be erased.

For novices, utilize a portrait that has as few subjects as possible. Turn the image to monochrome. In Photoshop CS or higher, you can do this easily by clicking n the black & white button. If you are utilizing a different software or an older version of Photoshop, you can de-saturate the image and it will let you have the same sought after effect.

Next, separate your subjects from one another. Do this by utilizing the lasso or marquee tool. Cut and paste each subject on a new layer. Separating your subjects will allow you to work on each subject, without affecting the layers.

Adding Color

Chosing and adding vividness to your picture is the most tasking part in this project. When selecting colors, bear in mind that colors effects you see on a vintage poster. Attempt to use these colors on your images. Remember that you want to accomplish a slightly faded but vivid color effect.

Use color replacement or select color range to make it easier. You can make create another layer, fill it with your selected color and use masks to hide or show the color. For beginners who are having a difficult time finding these options, you can just paint over the parts of your subject. You must remember to put on a blend mode for your colors.

Flatten the image or convert it to smart object.

Texture

The most important effect you have to use is the texture effect. Utilize a texture effect that will give your image a slightly crumpled look. You can pick out from the many paper texture effect obtainable in your software. Also, remember to add a little shadow effect and use Gaussian blur filter. Using a blur effect will present you with a hand-drawn effect and hide the fine points of your image.

Making the Poster

Copy and paste the edited image on a new file. Use tabloid for the new image size. If you want to have your work printed, use a resolution of 300 dpi and the CMYK color mode, otherwise, you can just use a resolution of 72 dpi and RGB color mode.

Create a back drop that blends well with the colors you used for your image and add a paper texture again on your image. Try to de-saturate the color of your stationery texture if it doesn’t go well with the colors on your poster.

Manufacturing your own vintage poster is easy. Try out colors and explore the different effects on your photo-editing software. Let your creativeness fly and make personal vintage poster.

Keith has been writing articles online for nearly 4 years now. Not only does this author specialize in antiques you can also check out his latest video on New York Antique. Information is not hard to find for Antique Shops New York if you look hard enough. Keith’s video has lots of information on New York Antique Dealers and is available for any questions you may have. You can find us at New York Antiques,515 W 35th Street,New York,NY,10001,(877) 991-1616


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