Introduction: This week I decided to do a retro 80’s style montage incorporating grids, because I love grids – I really do. Grids are awesome for bring out a Tron style 80s effect and also for adding an extra perspective to an image.

this Landscape

this impressive image of a mountain

these cloud brushes

image of the leopard

these grid brushes

this font ‘cube’

Step 1

To begin we’ll place this impressive image of a mountain into Photoshop. I chose this image because it has a foreground that gradually leads the eye up to the mountain.

Step 2

Next we’ll add this Landscape into to our image, using the top left hand side; about two thirds form the left.

Step 3

Add a layer mask and brush out the top area so the mountain is revealed, leave some of the cloud above the trees in the centre so the line isn’t too sharp.

This is how your image should end up looking like.

Step 4

Add a hue saturation adjustment layer above the stunning grassy landscape, with the following settings.

Step 5

Place this image of the leopard into the document, you need to then flip it horizontally so its facing left instead of right. Resize and position it toward the right hand side of the document.

Step 6

Add a layer mask and brush away the background, it doesn’t have to be super accurate as we’ll be adding other elements into the image as we go.

Step 7

Add a vibrance adjustment layer, clip it to the leopard and lower the saturation down to – 100.

Step 8

Duplicate the leopard layer, then apply the layer mask.

Step 9

Using the polygon lasso tool cut out 3 shapes that match each other from the copied leopard. Use shift whilst using the polygon lasso tool to generate multiple selections. Add a layer mask and finally flip the cut out s horizontally then move them to right left holding shift to keep them on the same level.

Step 10

Download these grid brushes, once installed start by painting a grid from one eye of the leopard. Use Ctlr + t and distort to move it into position. Finally add a layer mask and using a black to white gradient blend out the part that stands out too much.

Step 11

Keep adding grids onto the image from either eye, use different colours from yellow to purple for a nice retro feel.

Step 12

Using these cloud brushes brush some clouds on top the image to help the whole thing blend in more.

Step 13

next add a gradient fill adjustment layer from light green – 94c516 to darker green – 72aa00. Put the blend mode to multiply and lower th3 opacity to 43 %

Step 14

Download this font ‘cube’ and install it. Then type out ‘Digital Art Empire’.

The layer style is an outer glow at default with a stroke set to pink -c751d9 2 pixels and 59 % opacity.

Step 15

With a dark, soft and low opacity brush around the letters so the background is darker. This gives the letters a contrast with the background

Step 16

Download these paper textures find a suitable image and add it to your document, lower the opacity to 15% and layer blend mode to colour burn.

Step 17

Finally download this balloon and add it to the document. Reposition the image and set the blend mode to Darken and the lower the 81 %.

Conclusion : I hope you learnt alot and enjoyed reading this tut – the best way to say thanks is to promote it .

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Ben Rama

Ben Rama is a Graphic Designer, CG artist & Cinematographer from London. He is the founder & creative director at Digital Art Empire Find Ben on Twitter