Hi all, and welcome! In this tuturial I will try to show you how I normally make my pics look retro!

This’s a logo we will try to draw here:

I assume you have quite alot of photoshop knowledge, so I will not point out the obvious.
This tutorial is divided into 9 (pretty big) steps, so lets kick off with number one!

1) Create a new canvas, not too big, not too small,I picked 500*500. Fill the background with a nice retro-greenish color.
For me, the main element in retro colors, are the usage of very desaturated colors. (see the next step for more info)

2) In this step I am going to show you how I normally pick colors.
Open the color picker, select a nice color the normal way, then press the “() S” button, this is the saturation box, for making colors look, well, less saturated.
I normally drag that down to about 40/30 %, but it heavily depends on the color you picked before.

3) Select 2 colors the way I described above, making it your primary and secondary color.
Now, select the pen tool, and click that circle in the top-window. now make a circle in the middel of the canvas, by holding shift while dragging. Move the circle around a bit, untill it is centered.
Duplicate the shape-layer and select the selection tool. Free transform the path, by right clicking the shape and selecting free transform.
Now, hold down shift and alt, and size the new circle down to about 2/3rd of the original size.
Double click the fill color in the layer pallete, so you can change the color of the shape.
Set it to the other color you picked earlier.
Repeat this step, so you have 3 circles, but give the inner circle the same color as you gave the background.
You will now have something that looks like a wheel or something.

Creating a retro logo - Part 2 >>>