This was a fun way to create a retro sports card. I used a photo I took at a Serra Football game. I wish I would have had a picture of our stands to use instead of the generic one I found.
I really like the original picture so I tweaked with it again. I found some really cool old paper textures, tweaked with the color balance, high pass, texturizer and sharpening. Fun stuff.
Time consuming process of creating separate brushes for each word. Posterized then select black and brush words individually with size variations. Create another layer and fill with a pattern of the same words. Expand selection around words to get the outline of the letters. Repeat steps for the Dark Grey areas, then again for the light grey. Add color. I then added two additional copies of the original posterized image, adjusted the blending modes to bring more of the original image out.
