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That’s why some of the resources in the beginners and advanced sections fall into the realm of typography tips and tricks, rather than tutorials. They’re about learning the techniques involved in each project, and applying them to your own designs. They're the perfect way to add instant depth, warmth and retro magic to your design and illustration projects.Īs always, the tutorials in this round-up aren’t about copying the work of other artists. That’s why we’ve covered a range of areas with these typography resources, which we’ve split into handy categories to help you navigate to the section you want:Ġ1-05: Typography tutorials for beginnersġ0-12: Retro and vintage typographic postersġ5-16: Advanced typography tutorials for Photoshop and Illustratorīefore you get started with these tutorials, check out our selection of quality retro and vintage fonts, text effects and texture packs. Type design is a luring field for any designer or illustrator, but mastering the art of typography is a skill that comes with time – and practice. This gives us the base picture on which our typographic portrait will be created.Looking to improve your type design? Then look no further: we’ve rounded up a collection of some of the best retro and vintage typography tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator to help take your skills to the next level.

Take a look at the pictures for any clarification.

From the 'Image trace' option click 'Shades of grey'.

Place the image in the newly opened file.

You can use any other software to do the same. I chose my own image and converted to black and white using Illustrator. This in turn will help you to choose the appropriate text shade giving a more life like depth to the typographic portrait. Converting the image to black and white helps in understanding the shades of the subject in a better way. The image should be black and white or coloured converted to one.įor the tutorial, I will chose a coloured image and then converted it to a black and white image.

The image should not be under exposed or over exposed.

Be careful to choose an image which has good contrast between subject and background. The first task you have to do is choose an image to base your typographic portrait on.