Creating beautiful and stunning posters can be a challenge, especially for these who don’t know any technical skills of PhotoShop, and who may not have the budget to hire a professional designer to come up with poster design ideas and create the best posters for their own use. However, you needn’t to worry about this anymore. In this short article, I will show you how to make a vintage poster without Photoshop, in a few simple steps.

You can easily make your own posters online with DesignCap, a free web-based poster making tool. It offers many poster templates that you can customize to your needs, so that you can design straight in your browser. Here let’s go with it.

Step 1

Go to Designcap.com. You will be welcomed by hundreds of templates for posters for many occasions like for big sale, holiday, party, real estate promotion, etc. But today I’ll show you how to make a vintage poster. So just go to the preset designs and find a template.

 

Step 2

If you already have a specific idea in mind, you can start the poster with a blank template. I just choose one I like. Every template can be customized freely. Let’s start to personalize it with adding a photo. DesignCap allows users to add photos from local computer, Facebook album, and search photos online for free. I’ve search from Pixabay data base.

Then, as you can see, I can have a fully personalized its effect with photo filters, opacity, exposure, brightness, contrast and so on. You can always custom the photo size, position, layer, etc.

Step 3

The overall design looks good, so now it’s time to add some information. You can fine many preset text styles at the left list. You can just use the preset styles or manually change the text and adjust its font and color freely with the easy to use text editing tools.

Step 4

DesignCap is also built-in a lot of categories for a large number of clipart images. In addition to the it allows you to search clipart images online as well. You can just its color, opacity freely.

When it comes to background. DesignCap offers three ways to make a beautiful background for your posters. You can choose a solid /gradient color, image patterns, or own images. It very straightforward. So I’m not going to talk about this.

Final Artwork

Now, share your final vintage poster on your Facebook, Twitter, or any where you want. You can save the poster as large as 4959 x 7015 pixels for free in the app. Or you can just print it out for any other use. That would be fine.

Now you know how to make your own vintage poster using DesignCap? Even if you know nothing about PhotoShop, you can get your posters looking their best with the help of this free and simple-to-use web apps. Want to have a free try? Go ahead: https://www.designcap.com/.