While I’m still working through the Phlearn 30 Days of Photoshop, Vector Tuts Adobe for Beginners and the Photo Editing course, I will be deviating every now and then to something Star Wars related. As this is a site dedicated to Star Wars and creativity, Star Wars will feature a lot in the things I decide to make.

I discovered this neat little tutorial via Vector Tuts Design tutorials because I hang around on the Envato sites a lot. I regularly look for design-related freebies just in case something pops up that I might want to use in a future project and their tutorials are pretty awesome.

So a Vanity License Plate at first didn’t really appeal to me until I started thinking of what I could do to make it Star Wars related. So I finished the tutorial about 30 minutes ago, and I really enjoyed it.

Here’s what you make:

Here’s my finished version with my own text, of course. You can see that there are subtle differences between the tutor’s version and mine. There are a few more steps in the tutorial to follow after you get to this point, but I decided I didn’t want to add anything else to my image. Feel free to totally follow the tutor’s further steps if you wish!

The tutorial is laid out clearly, and I didn’t have any issues following along. The only primary concern I had with this tutorial is that it’s dated (2010) and Adobe Photoshop has had a whole lot of upgrades since then. You can still follow the main points in the tutorial though, the only thing you might spend a bit of extra time on is finding your version of the tools (they look a lot different now).

Website: http://pshero.com/photoshop-tutorials/graphic-design/vanity-license-plate

Time: Around 20 minutes tops

Level: I would say beginner level, but you should have a good understanding of how to use layers, layers styles, the text tool, and how to install fonts into Photoshop.

There is no video to accompany the text so you might want to avoid this tutorial if you prefer to watch rather than read instructions. I was happy to find that all the assets needed to make the above image in Photoshop are provided by the tutor including the  PSD file (but you shouldn’t need that because you’ll be creating your own!).

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Be safe, be kind, and until next time, keep creating!