Video tutorial: Create a vintage toy camera look in Photoshop

Struggling to emulate the looks of retro film photography? Ben Secret shows you how

Video tutorial: Complete the vintage toy camera aesthetic

We’ll mix the bubbly light texture in with our image using a Light blending mode, to add a double-exposed film effect. Then for the light streaks we’ll use Screen blending to selectively lighten and fade parts of our image, creating an old Polaroid effect.

Give your Photoshop illustrations a retro look and feel

Using a limited colour palette and textures sourced everywhere from second-hand markets to online, we will utilise Photoshop ’s Threshold and Color Range tools to create a retro 50s-style advertisement. We will also touch on how to use the Channel Mixer to create some effective colour combinations.

Shooting Challenge: Inked [Shooting Challenge]

# shootingchallenge Photography used to just create photos. But through post processing (like Photoshop and Illustrator), your photos can become incredible, inky drawings that you might never create by hand. For this week's Shooting Challenge, you'll draw with photos. More »

Staggeringly inept attempt to scam Kickstarter is found out. Hilarious pitch needs to be seen to be believed

Staggeringly inept attempt to scam Kickstarter is found out. Hilarious pitch needs to be seen to be believed