If you search ?travel poster? or ?retro travel poster? or ?vintage travel poster?, what will pop up are colorful prints with fonts layered over the top of illustrations of famous places around the world. Most of these prints or posters are made by graphic artists using Adobe Illustrator or other vector based drawing software and you find them just by doing a basic search on Etsy or with a search engine.

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Travel posters are a fantastic way to remember and display your travels, whether it?s a family summer vacation or one of your favorite trips abroad. There?s a way to create your own using a few filters and basic tools in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
 
 
Using just a few filters from the Filter Gallery in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you can recreate the look of an illustrated travel poster inspired by the retro versions of the past. One caveat, you?re limited by the functions of the programs filters and it?s my experience that some photos make better candidates than others. But this method is fun to play with and it can result in some cool travel poster art. I created three using my own iPhone travel images.
I took this photograph in Islamorada on my trip to the Florida Keys last year, imported it into Photoshop, and played with two filters and some basic tools.

 
The first filter to experiment with is the Cutout Filter in the Filter Gallery. This changes a photograph so it looks more like an illustration.

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