Design Instruct Graphic Vintage Baseball Card Photoshop

Cafe Racer

Software: Affinity Photo

Tutorial: Spoon Graphics – How To Create a Retro Café Racer Motorcycle Ad Design

Another image… but this is different… This was created in Affinity Photo… basically Affinity's version of PhotoShop. This is the first image I have ever created in Affinity Photo. Right off the bat, I should have done a few tutorials designed for Affinity Photo. This tutorial assumed that PhotoShop was the software of choice and I was trying to figure out Affinity's commands. The result was some major hair pulling. I guess I am not a good in translating PhotoShop instructions in Affinity Photo as I am with Adobe Illustrator into Affinity Designer instructions. In the end it came out looking reasonable… so I can call this a win, but I need to do some Affinity Photo tutorials before I try another PhotoShop to Photo style tutorial.

Tags: Affinity, Affinity Photo, retro, Sports Image

Astronaut Child – Affinity Designer

Software: Affinity Designer

Tutorial:How to Create a Retro Poster With an Astronaut Child in Adobe Illustrator – Envato Tuts

This set of images brings together three things I have done before: my ability to convert an illustrator tutorial in Affinity Designer project, flat art/retro art style and a space image!

I chose to do these images for a couple of reasons:

1. My desire to improve my skills with Affinity Designer. I have only had Affinity Designer for a few months, but I have worked with Illustrator for years, so the desire to improve my Affinity Designer skills is very important to me. This tutorial was very helpful in it didn't have over structured step-by-step instructions, it sort of said "crate the following using the following tools".
2. My desire to create an image with a person in it. It was a bit of a surprise to realize that I have not created and posted an image with a person in it. Sure I have edited photos of people, but I have not drawn an image of a person for my blog. There is a reason for that, I sort of suck drawing people, but this image had a very basic design and I felt that my drawing skills were up to the challenge…. and they sort of were.
3. General love of space images and flat art/retro images, and this image had both.

If you look at the original tutorial, there is an image with a space child floating over the moon, but there is no image with a child a spaceship.So why did I create the image of a spaceship? I didn't like the idea of the child astronaut just floating in space with no way to get home. Besides, 1950's style rockets are cool.

Tags: Affinity, Designer, digital image, Flat Art, Poster, retro, space

Old Air Show Poster

Software: Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC

Tutorial:Design a Gritty Vintage Airshow Poster/ – Design Cuts

This image shows off the power of a vector (Illustrator) / bit map (Photoshop) software tag team in the creation of an image. The actual images (the map, the aircraft shape and text were all created in Illustrator and the weathering of the images was done in Photoshop.

Tags: Advertisement, Art Deco, Illustrator, Photoshop, Poster, retro, Texture

80s Style

Software: Photoshop CC

Tutorial: Spoon Graphics

Everything old is new again… not an original thought, but it seems to be a true one. Just look at the title graphics in the upcoming Thor Ragnarok movie. The thing I find interesting is that a lot of the 80's graphic style came from the development of computers in the graphics field. 80's computers were limited in the number of colour they could produce (early paint programs were limited to 256 colours, 64 colours, 16 colours or even 32 shades of grey!). 80's computers were also limited by their speed (or more accurate their lack of speed). They could only manipulate only a few graphic items before the computer slowed down (or crashed). This lack colours and design elements lead to graphics that were bold and bright and lacked subtle shades.

I find this semi-funny. We now have very powerful computers, by we seem to be creating graphics that pay homage to less powerful computers. I guess nostalga is more powerful than even the most powerful computer, or that the we just want to celebrate the fact despite the lack of power of 80's computers the 80's graphic style was pretty awesome!

Tags: 80's style, Illustrator, Layers, Photoshop, retro, space

Baseball Card – Colourization

Software: Photoshop CC

Tutorial: Vintage Baseball Card in Photoshop – WebpageFX

This image had a lot of cool things: colourize the image of Joe DiMaggio, use of layer styles and blending modes to make the image of Joe and Yankee Stadium seem more like an illustration, use of layer styles to "age" the final card design.

The coolest part was the colourization of the image of Joe DiMaggio. It was a bit of a surprise to me when I realized that I had rarely done a colourization of black and white images. I had done lots of changing the colour of an item in a colour photo.

Finally this image was fun to create.

Tags: Layer Masks, Layer Styles, Layers, Photoshop, retro, Sports Image, Texture

Design Instruct Graphic Vintage Baseball Card Photoshop

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