Create your Hometown's Vintage Postcard in Procreate

1. Hey there!: Hey there and welcome. In this short class, we will go back in time and recreate this vintage poster that was popular in the 40s. Hi, I'm Brian. I'm a graphic designer living in one trial and most of my work is designing, marketing, social post in video editing. I also work on different companies for their content. Besides working as a professional graphic designer, I also have a passion for retro design just like this, I do have a collections of kind of like a vintage poster, vintage inspired postcard. I love redesigning or recreating all designs because it's a great way to learn, discover what's the benefit, and at the same time, apply my own style. So then a new composition is pouring. Taking this course, you will discover new things and skills and tools in vintage design. And we will also experiment with colors, effects to create a basic to a beautiful, engaging composition. On top of it, we will apply some textures and all we need is our iPad Pro. I am using the iPad Pro. The iPad can do Apple pencil and a procreate app installed on your iPad and you're good to go. This class is an intermediate cores. But if you have a little bit of knowledge of Procreate, these are the breakdown of what the class sell about. First, we're going to discover IPE tools of Procreate. We will be using Transform tools to make it 3D text effect, selecting, isolating element and clipping them to detect and apply texture and color grade to match the vintage look that we're aiming for. By the end of the class, you'll be able to create your own postcard that you can post or print. And I can't wait for you to share which come up with in-depth project gallery. I would love to give you feedback. So yeah, let's get started. And I'll see you on the next video. See you there. 2. Inspiration: If you look at these amazing postcard right here, they're kinda like vibrant and really showcase what the city is all about. As you can see New York, they showcase all those teacher liberties and all these iconic buildings right there. They're kinda have this good contrast, actually very, very strong contrast compared to what we used to. So the most common colors, as you can see, it's kind of like blue and orange. And I guess that's because of basic colors back then, you can see just a clip images in each letters. And I have no idea how they did that in the past. And how do they reproduce in the 30s and 40s. But I'm a fan of this artwork. That's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna be only using Procreate to recreate this iconic postcards. All we need is our iPad procreate app right here. And I actually already created this one awhile ago, but we're going to recreate this. This is actually my hometown right here. I grew up in a small town in the Philippines. And this reminds me of the old times. And then those Cholly effect and the textures and the colors just brings back a childhood memories and all that. But before we get into those emotions and all that, I will just gonna go ahead and create this vintage postcard. We're gonna, it's gonna be a fun project for everyone to consider trying. If you have Procreate. 3. Text Tool: I'm gonna go ahead and exit, and I'm going to use screen size right now so we can take advantage of the full screen procreate, also the iPad along I'm going to do first, we're going to create a text. And all we have to do is to get into here the wrench icon and I'm going to go add texts. And this is very crucial because you have to pick the font that has this thick bold font. So you can showcase all the pictures that will be clipping in each letters. I'm already thinking of future Condensed Bold right here. And feel free to explore the gallery. You can also use impact, and I'm going to type my hometown right here, which is Delano. And I'm going to expand it similar to a vector mode. So we had to take advantage and you can see it's very sharp, but once we rasterize, it is going to lose all the quality. If you have a chance, you can just make this as big as possible. And then you can downsize it once you're working with it. So it's quite good. I'm going to change the background right here so I can see what I'm gonna be working on. Probably this one is good enough. I am going to duplicate this first, this title right here. I am going to rasterize it now. So there's special effect, like I could transform them and warp them. 4. Transform Tool: The first thing, I'm just gonna go free form here and make it a little bit stand the size of this one right here. So I'm going to free farm it and make it a little bit longer. And from there, I can duplicate it right here. And this one right here, I could go to, I'm going to select it. You can go selection right here. And you can actually go to layer. You can go select. Or there's actually a shortcut for this one. If you go onto the layer, you can put your two fingers here and it will automatically select that layer right here. I'll do it again. As you can see, fingers right here. I'm going to hold, press and hold and going to color fill it. And as you can see, it's now white before it was black. So we're gonna go back to selection right here with the color fill active, gonna go Automatic. And then let's try to feather it out. As you can see, it brings out some kind of outline right there, change the background so you can see what's happening right there. We're going to change the background to a little bit darker so you can see what's going to happen in the next few steps. So I'm going to like kids I care. Make sure you're an automatic with straight to select one of those. And I'm gonna go further. You can see we're building some highlights, actually were building like an outline. You can see right there. I'm not going to be crazy about it. Alright, so I think that's good. And we're gonna go out from that selection. And we can go back to the selection. So we're on automatic mixture of color fill is on. I'm going to select part of this outliner here. Just be careful. Sometimes it's really hard, but you can try a couple of times and then you can select the threshold right here. Once you're happy with the threshold, go to the next letters, something like this. And just be careful because if you go out of the threshold, you might get building up. But I think I kinda like that. And again, we're gonna go duplicate the layer a there. And the third layer, I am going to just do the same thing. So I'm gonna go hit it, select it, and I'm going to go color, fill it with black and something like that and I'm going to feather it out just like this. I think that's okay. Maybe a little bit more. 5. Create Outline: And then get out of there. And then select it again and go to Color Fill automatic. Select it. And then you can change the threshold to. Okay, let's try it again, because sometimes it's kinda glitchy and sometimes it's hard. So Selection Automatic. And then we can go something like this. Can select all the letters now. Yeah, sometimes it really does mess up. So I'm going to go inside, are ok. So just be careful with this. Probably can think we're good here with this setup. We can start putting our background right here so we know what we're working on. So I'm going to go Insert a photo right here. Insert Photo. I'm going to use this photo right here as a background so I know the perspective I'm working am going to make it sure that I highlight the scenery of my hometown. And I think this is good. I'm actually going to put it all the way down. I am going to lock this one so it doesn't move at all. So Locke thing, we're good to go with all of these layers here. You can actually duplicate this one as a backup just in case. I'm just gonna put it right here. And I'm going to select them all. And then I'm going to group it. I'm going to lock them and hide it, put it on the bottom just in case I mess it up. So I am going to group it. I'll hear what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make this smaller so it fits into the Canvas. Maybe I could just rotate it just like this. Make it a little bit smaller. 6. Create 3D Text Effect: And now I can take advantage of the Warp feature right here. So as you can see, can now make the letters or make a little bit of wave or kind of a wavy look. And I think it's quite big, but we can work on that. You can go and advanced mesh. If you want to control more of the letters right here, you want to make it thicker or something like this. It is this doing great. I think this is okay. And I could duplicate this layer right here. I will go uniform and I'm going to drop it right here. So I could create a false 3D effect. And this is quite good right here. I'm just going to move them both and make it smaller because now it's kinda big. That is this good. I just have a problem with this one right here. Alright, so this layer right here, I'm gonna make it pure black, so it's easier for me to work selects. And then I'm going to call our fillets to black and just turning to block dislike that. And actually I'm going to turn this into kind of orange, this one right here. I'm gonna go back select and then Color fill it automatically being filled because I am on the default fill. And what we're gonna do here, we're going to actually fix some issues right here. I just want to connect this one right here. So I'm going to use the brush tool, monoline and the same color right here. I'm just going to connect them just like this. And hopefully that will help out this one as well. And here it looks good. 7. Clip Images: I'm going to try if I can extract the letter S right here. So I'm gonna go to this layer right here, and I'm gonna go selection. I'm just going to expand a threshold. I think that's good. And I'm gonna go with my three fingers. I'm going to go like swipe down, cut and paste, and let's see. Okay, I think I got it correctly. I'm going to test it out with one picture, so I'm going to insert picture here. I think I'm gonna go with this picture right here. I'm going to make it bigger just like this. And we can use our fingers as well. And from there I could just click this one right here. Clip it and you can see, and we can even make it smaller so we could fit a little bit more details on the pictures. Something like this. I'm gonna go back to this layer right here. And we're gonna go selection, automatic. Boom. And then we can go three fingers, cut and paste. And we can go to the same thing as long as we're, we actually need to go back to this layer to continuously do this. The paste. We're gonna go to letter S to letter a. So same thing, selection point. And if you cannot get that, if you don't get it directly, can move your threshold like this. And if you get this like all of it, you can just lower the threshold like this. And it should be okay. You can see here. Alright, so I'm gonna go three fingers, cut and paste, and we're gonna go to letter N, election. That are n ket pays, that are o, select. Okay, so we're all good with all the letters right here. So all we have to do, it suggests go on the letters w1 to wr are clip the images. So from here, I'm going to go Insert Photo, any photo that you like. So I'm looking for this photo right here. And you can just, you know, properly align it right here. And then you can just clip it and you can see it starts to show up just like that. And you can start with, I'm gonna go with the letter L and Insert Photo, probably. This photo right here, make it bigger. But it right here. Clipping mask. And I can go to letter a case n. Alright, We're good to hear. So I just clicked all the images right here. Hi, I'm just going to organize this and put it in a folder so I don't mess it up. So I'm going to group it. You go to this layer right here. 8. Add Dimension: Orange one, I actually need to get another layer and put a black coating on it. And from that, I'm going to clip it. As you can see. It's just pure black, but that's okay. That's what we're aiming for. We're gonna go for, we're going to make a mask. And I'm going to go for the mono line brush. And let's try. Yeah. So right now, it's all good. I think I liked the colors OVN to do is just to reveal some orange in here as like what I see as we see on those vintage poster. So I'm just going to revere orange here just to give it a contrast. And kind of interesting also has a contrast right here. So I'm just going to use this right here. So as here just gives you a dimension. I kinda like this. The next step is going to be, we're going to actually tried to position this as good as possible and also take advantage of the space that we have here. Because also we're going to put a text right here. 9. Add Greetings: Alright, so before we go ahead and put all the textures we're going into, just put another text right here. So add tags. I'm going to put greetings from I'm going to change the text to satisfy I downloaded the font from Google fonts. If you want to download this font as well, you can do so. They like the font pairing of Sans-serif and Sarah here. We're just going to put that right here. And I'm going to duplicate it. Change the color to white. So it has a shadow. But this white colored decks at the back, and we're just going to offset it a little bit right here. You don't see much right now. But once we put all the textures, it will make sense. And I am going to duplicate this again, put it at the bottom right here. And this is gonna be just a subtext, a little bit of maybe where dreams are made of. Thing that's quite, it's quite long, but we're going to make the text smaller. So it fits into, put it right here. Maybe smaller and same here. We're going to duplicate this one and this one right here. I am going to edit it and color it black. And probably I'm going to exchange the layering and we're going to offset it quite a bit. Maybe something like this. Okay, I think that's good. Make it a little bit bigger and fit into the canvas. I'm actually going to unlock the background ray here and make it uniform. And we're gonna put kind of like a whitespace, something like this. I'm going to on the snap, so have a good alignment. There's this guy, I'm going to change the background to wait in a line this again, to have that perfect alignment. I think this is quite good. Probably we're going to make this a little bit smaller. So also we can showcase the background right there. Here. Actually, I'm going to, I'm going to group them too. So I could easily move them wherever I want to. This one here, you can group mips and positioning array here. Thing it's a good position and make it bigger so you can read it. 10. Apply Vintage Texture: And lastly, we're going to insert another photo or texture. I think this one will change the game here. Okay, so this one, we're going to blend it to think linear burn is going to be my best bet right here, as you can see, it gives it a little bit vintage look right now. If it's too much, I think this is the perfect one. And I'm going to color in the background to something different color because from that time it has, they have a different calibration of colors and probably desaturated a little bit and make it brighter. So the title right here, or the town is gonna be like the focal point. I'm gonna go something like this. And also they have this sepia colored tone before. So I think this is quite good. Let's try full screen it. This is the final product that we do while we did today. And hopefully you learn something on how to create your postcard. Make it like a vintage looking. Thank you for watching. Hope you learn from here. And again, See you next video. Bye bye. 11. Closing: Thank you!: Hey guys, thanks so much for spending the time with me and taking this class. And hopefully you were able to create your own hometowns, vintage postcard that you can show on your social media, or you can print it. And if you have any questions or recommendations about this class, feel free to post a comment on the discussion panel. Also, I would love to give me feedback about my teaching so I could prove my productions and by Albert all teaching on Skillshare. Thank you once again, and I'll see you in the next lesson. Bye now.