![]() ![]() ![]() The texture has now been applied as a mask and is rendering black areas of the mask transparent and white areas opaque. Press CMD+V to paste the texture then click elsewhere in the Layers palette to exit out of the layer mask. This will take you into the Layer Mask in order to edit its contents. Toggle off or delete the texture layer then ALT+click the Layer Mask’s little thumbnail. Select the texture layer and press CMD+A to Select All, then CMD+C to Copy. Select your main logo layer or group of layers and add a Layer Mask. The aim is to generate harsh white details that will represent the paper showing through the ink. Press CMD+Shift+U to Desaturate the texture then open up the Levels window (CMD+L) and alter the handles to increase the contrast of the image. Paste the texture onto a new layer and scale it to size. Here I’m using a free dark grunge texture from LostandTaken. Concrete, rust or grunge textures all work well. The subject of the texture can really be anything with plenty of fine grainy detail. The actual letterpress effect is created from a texture file. Download this design and 5 other customizable retro/vintage logos & emblems. I’m going to be using one of my freely downloadable hipster logos as the base of this tutorial. Originally this would be seen as a mistake or flaw in the print, but nowadays we actively seek to fake this kind of texturing to give our artwork an aged and nostalgic appearance. As we all know from playing with rubber and potato stamps as kids this kind of basic printing technique can result in some cool texturing, especially if areas of the printing surface lacks ink. Letterpress printing is an old printing method that transfers ink from a press onto paper, essentially like a rubber stamp. ![]() Today’s tutorial will show you a quick and easy way to give your logos and typography that ink stamp style effect that originated from the old letterpress style printing technique. I’ve also given it a 1 point stroke.I’ve received a few questions recently about how I create the letterpress style texturing that appears on pretty much every retro/vintage design I make. I’ve chosen a very classic font called Myriad Pro (you can find it here: ) and I’ve filled the type with a color of my choice (I think white could be good). At this point, select font and size, type your message and compose it within your document (I couldn’t propose any other message!). If you don’t have them set, the first thing to do is to get back to default colors. The trick is to build up new fill and stroke attributes so, let’s see how to go on with the creation of this very simple and basic application of stroke effects combined with a text in order to achieve a good result in less time and in a very professional way. With this new approach, you have one reference text object, so that any change affects each set of offset strokes. Not only is it slow, repetitive and error-prone but, above all, any adjustments you make to the kerning or case, you’ll need to manually repeat to each copy individually. This is not the ideal (or recommended) way of creating this effect for a number of reasons.
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