Vintage Postcard
Lancaster, Ohio
I have always wanted to create my own postcards, and saw this as a great chance to try. I am a big fan of the vintage style postcards, often found in tourist traps and museum shops around the country - although this style was certainly more popular in the mid-20th century.
I chose Lancaster, Ohio as my first subject, as it is a great little historic town with some truly lovely scenery; that, and my wife was born and raised there.
I used three similar processes, using a variation of Illustrator and Photoshop layers, opacities and effects.
The final images are examples of these variations.
I had a lot of fun creating these and believe I will do more, perhaps as a series.
Software:
Adobe Illustrator CS4
Adobe Photoshop CS4
(for some reason these images seem darker than intended, when posted here)
Lancaster, Ohio
I have always wanted to create my own postcards, and saw this as a great chance to try. I am a big fan of the vintage style postcards, often found in tourist traps and museum shops around the country - although this style was certainly more popular in the mid-20th century.
I chose Lancaster, Ohio as my first subject, as it is a great little historic town with some truly lovely scenery; that, and my wife was born and raised there.
I used three similar processes, using a variation of Illustrator and Photoshop layers, opacities and effects.
The final images are examples of these variations.
I had a lot of fun creating these and believe I will do more, perhaps as a series.
Software:
Adobe Illustrator CS4
Adobe Photoshop CS4
(for some reason these images seem darker than intended, when posted here)
Final Images
Typography constructed in Illustrator, exported to Photoshop for addition of texture, vintage vignette effect and background image.
Typography constructed in Illustrator, along with addition of texture, vintage vignette effect and background image.
Typography constructed in Illustrator, along with addition of texture, vintage vignette effect and background image. Exported to Photoshop for final image enhancing.
Typography constructed in Illustrator, exported to Photoshop for addition of texture, vintage vignette effect and background image. After some reflection, I altered the red in the "Lancaster" text to a blue hue - I feel this creates a better contrast with the background image.
Purchase this item as a gift or for your own collection. [actual item varies slightly from above image]
A personal project using this tutorial.
