How to Make Bootleg Retro T-Shirts in Photoshop

On this tutorial, we’ll delve into the artwork of crafting your very personal bootleg retro T-shirts utilizing Adobe Photoshop. Embrace the essence of the ’90s as we create an genuine retro shirt that pays homage to the period’s tacky however iconic model.  

What You may Must Full This Bootleg T-Shirt Tutorial 

How you can Make Bootleg T-Shirts in Photoshop

Step 1 

Step one is to arrange your canvas. For T-shirt design, I like to recommend  10 x 12 inches, with a DPI of 300.

Subsequent, add your textual content. I will be utilizing two fonts: Handstood Ultra Black and Rising Star.

Add a curve to the highest font utilizing the Warp Textual content setting, discovered within the Textual content instruments within the higher choice bar. The under instance is ready to Fashion Bulge with a -13% Bend.

Step 2

Subsequent, let’s add a gradient impact to each items of textual content. First we’ll add the “Forbidden” settings, which you’ll see within the gallery under:

Step 3

Now, let’s add a chrome impact to “Cats.” Scroll via the gallery to see the settings: 

Step 4

Begin extracting and inserting your topics on the shirt utilizing Choose Topic and Layer Masks. Begin with the biggest topic, on this case the raccoon, after which attempt to place the opposite topic round it. Cover any cut-off edges which can be behind different photographs. 

Add a purple #492276 Outer Glow layer model to all the themes. 

Group all the themes collectively, and Clip a Shade Steadiness layer set to Inexperienced -100 and Blue +100 into the group. This can give all the photographs a purple tint. 

Step 5

Create a New Layer under all present layers. Set your Foreground Shade to purple #382763 and the Background Shade to black. Go to Filter > Render > Clouds. 

Add a Layer Masks and masks away the clouds from the sides of the canvas, leaving them solely behind the themes.  

Step 6

Clip a number of lightning graphics behind the themes. These graphics are PNGs, so they simply need to be positioned and set to Display.  Lightning was a typical motif in retro classic shirts from the 90s. 

Step 7 (Non-compulsory)

To regulate the colours and distinction, Proper-click > Merge Seen. Subsequent, go to Filter > Digicam Uncooked.  

You’ll be able to regulate the general brightness and distinction in Mild, add texture in Results, and use Calibration to create a two-toned blue and orange impact like our instance. This can assist simplify the colours and create a 90s bootleg T-shirt vibe. 

Beneath, I set the Blue Major Hue to -100.