The 80’s have always had an iconic
impact on Pop Culture. I have been seeing a lot of 80’s inspired designs on the
internet, but never found a tutorial. So, here’s a simple tutorial inspired by
the 80’s. This is just a basic design to get you started, and Adobe Photoshop
is all that’s required (and very few stock images). And of course, a lot of
modifications can be done with this technique.
Final Preview:
Part
1: Creating The Main Text
Taking a canvas size of 1900 X
1200. Of course you could pick any size according to your preference, but make
sure the resolution is decent enough.
Fill the background layer BLACK.
With the Text Tool type whatever you
want the text to be. I chose “Leave, but don’t leave me”, from a Pink Floyd
song. “But don’t leave me” is coming later. Right now we’ll work on
“Leave”. The font I have used is Futura Heavy.

- Right-click on the text layer, go to Blending Options to create Layer styles.
- On the Layer style box, go to Gradient Overlay, tick it.
- On the Gradient Overlay, we open the Gradient editor and make the New Custom Gradient as above. I have chosen shades of black, white and grey so that we can easily modify the colors later.

Then apply Stroke, and in the fill
type, set it to Gradient, and choose the simple Black to White Gradient preset.

Next, make a new layer above the
text layer, name it Gradient 1 (or anything you please). Fill it with a
gradient. I used real bright colors, in honor of the 80’s.
The ‘Gradient 1′ layer is set to
Soft Light mode, with an opacity of 72% (you can experiment with the modes, and
opacity).

The above image shows you are
current progress. We are beginning to have the 80’s looks to it.
Part
2: The Background

Next we are going to add a nice
texture to the image. I have used a paper texture. You can find it here.
Select all (Ctrl/Cmd+A), copy the
texture (Ctrl/Cmd+C) and paste it (Ctrl/Cmd+V) on your work. The Blend Mode is
‘Vivid Light’, and you can see we already have a great effect going.
Now it’s time to create a new brush
to get a cloud effect; open up the Brush Engine, and use the following
settings:

It’s a very useful brush, and can be
used to make clouds in other work as well.
Now make a new layer “Clouds”, and
paint with the brush you just created. Add a bit of Inner Shadow, to add more
depth to the clouds.
Now change the order of layers,
bring the ‘Clouds’ layer just above the Background. Also, the opacity of the
‘Clouds’ layer is Changed to 56%.

Now Ctrl/Cmd+Click the ‘Leave’
(Text) Layer, which selects the region of the text, and then go to the ‘Gradient
1′ layer and add a layer mask. This masks of the gradient from the rest of the
image and leaves it on the Text.
Then we create a New Layer, Name it
‘Clouds 1′, Above the ‘Clouds’ layer. Make sure your foreground and background
colors are Black & White, Go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds.
Keep the overlay mode as Vivid
Light. Then in the Blending mode, add a Gradient Overlay, and use the following
2 colors for the gradient: #00fff0 and #e303bb.

Next we will add some stars to the
background.
We now make a new layer above the
‘Cloud 1′ layer and fill it with Black. Then we go to Filter -> Noise ->
Add Noise. Use Gaussian, Monochromatic, 10 % amount. There are various ways of
making a star filled sky, this is the one I chose.

Next, choose Image -> Adjustment
-> Levels and use the following values for Inputs: 65, 1.00, 99.
I have renamed the layer to Stars,
and the blending mode is set as Screen.
Next we’ll add bigger glowing stars.
Make the following brush using the brush engine:

Paint with varying brush sizes. Use
the bracket keys ([ and ])to change the size quickly. Then add a Layer mask,
and paint with black, using the same brush. This gets rid of some extra stars.
Now with a brush of 0% hardness and
size of around 300, paint along the edges and get rid of some more stars, also
add some Gaussian Blur if required.

Part
3: The 80’s Twinkle
It’s very simple to create the
twinkle used in so many 80’s posters.

- Take a soft brush, and just click once with it on a new layer, to create a soft circle.
- Duplicate the layer, and go to Filter -> Blur -> Motion Blur, Angle 0 degree, Distance around 46 pixels.
- Keep duplicating and adding motion blur 3 more times.
- Then merge all these layers (5 of them). Go to Free Transform, and stretch it, it widen the glowing object.
- Finally, duplicate the merged layer, Rotate by 90 degrees.
We have the twinkle now. We merge
both layers, and name the new layer ‘Twinkle’.
Now we can use the ‘Twinkle’ layer
where needed.
Duplicate the ‘Twinkle’ layer over
the Text layer (rotated, transformed etc.) and place them on the text. This
makes it shiny and 80’s!
Part
4: The shapes
Create a new layer for the shapes.
Using the polygon lasso tool, and
create a selection in the shape shown above. Select the Gradient tool, and
use a Gradient of color White (foreground color) and transparent. We fill the
selection with this gradient.
Next, Duplicate the shape and shift
it a bit. (Press Alt/Option and drag the shape). Merge the layers, and
duplicate them. Then we flip them horizontally and create and new shape.

Orient the shapes in different
directions and places, as shown below:
Then apply a Gradient Overlay, using
Blending options on the few layers, with Hard Light as the Gradient Overlay
Blend mode.

So, this is how it looks so far
(below). We are almost done now. You can leave it right here, or make a few
more adjustments.
I add the new Text layer, “But Don’t
Leave Me”, and apply a stroke via the Blending options.
If you think the colors are too
bright, you can add a Hue/Saturation mask on the top of the layer stack, and
lower the saturation to somewhere around -15.
The final image:

Thanks.. Good Luck Guys.. Ade Rahmat Budiman
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