The effect of using PS to synthesize retro-textured flax texture letterpress

Retro wind can be seen everywhere, it has gradually become mainstream, if you do not know what is retro wind, then you are too out. Anyway, it's a popular style and you should go and learn it.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the PS layer style and filter effects to synthesize retro-textured relief printing effect text, let's take a look at the effect chart:

Step 1

Creates a new canvas with a 1920 x 1280px size, and the background color is filled with #c7c2b8. Double-click the background layer, unlock it, and then double-click the background layer again to open the Layer Style dialog box, set as follows:

Pattern overlay is a pattern used in the "art surface" of the Photoshop pattern library.

This step of the effect diagram:

Step 2

On the background layer to copy a "stain texture" layer, layer blending mode is set to "overlay", opacity is 25%, here's "stain texture" can be downloaded by Baidu.

This step of the effect diagram:

Step 3

Creates a new layer and fills it with black. Click Filter > Noise > Add Noise, and the parameters are set as follows:

Change the layer blending mode to "overlay" and opacity to 15%, which adds some subtle textures to the image.

The effect is as follows:

Step 4

Select the Type tool, create the title text, set the font size larger, and the font color is #765555. Here we use the Lobster font with a font size of 260px (click to download).

Apply the following layer styles to the title text, and the patterns in pattern overlay are in the "thick fabric" pattern of the "art surface" in the Photoshop pattern library.

The effect of this step is as follows:

Step 5

Copy some vector star pattern to your image and set its color to #5E5D5A. The stars here are from the free Vector star Pack (click to download). Resize and place them where appropriate, and the layer style is set as follows. Here "pattern overlay" in the pattern is also the Photoshop pattern Library "Art surface" of the "thick fabric" pattern.

The effect of this step is shown below:

Step 6

Select the Type tool to create a small caption with a simpler font and set its character spacing to 750 in the character panel.

Apply the same layer style to the text layer as the star layer. You can right-click any star map layer, select Copy layer style, right-click the text layer and select Paste layer style.

The effect is as follows:

Final effect:

How, or relatively simple bar, more practice, you will continue to progress!

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