New from Mister Retro: Permanent Press PS filters
~ 23 September 2008 ~
If you’re keen on making your flawless photography and carefully crafted typography look like a cheaply printed handbill or gig poster (who wouldn’t?), you best be checkin’ out Mister Retro’s Permanent Press Photoshop filters.
Four years ago I reviewed Mister Retro’s Machine Wash Photoshop Filters as part of my Wicked Worn series. The aptly named Permanent Press filters fall into the same category as Machine Wash and fit nicely with the Mister Retro line of distressing software and vintage merchandise.
Much like Machine Wash, Permanent Press is really easy to use. Download and install the filters package, open up your artwork in Photoshop, and then open the Permanent Press filters from the Filter menu. A dialog box opens with preset filters and the ability to adjust the offset of the plates, halftone dot shape, ink viscosity, and much more.

Using the photo from Friday’s off-topic post about drum kits, following are several examples of the filters. All of these filters were used with their default settings.
Original photo

CMYK Pro filter

Concert Poster filter

Halftone Spot Two filter

Newspaper filter

Printed in Taiwan filter

Darkroom filter

Text and illustrations can also be modified with effects such as intentional misregistration of colors, halftone scaling, and more. Here are a few samples from the Mister Retro website:


Permanent Press filters can be purchased and downloaded from Mister Retro for just $99.
14 Comments

Stock photography, type, and killer tees. Genuinely recommended by Authentic Boredom.
I’m snatching these up right away. And the best part of all is always filing this in the “expense” column. I wish I could file all my toy purchases there…
I had recently purchased the Permanent Press Filter and found it to be very slow in rendering. The tool is great but if you want to use it for a print piece I would wait until they provide an updated faster version. Otherwise consider your 2 hour project to take 5 hours.
What kind of machine are you on, John? It seemed to render fine on my MacBook Pro with a 1200x800px image.
Cameron, thanks for pointing me to Mr. Retro (again). Just purchased Permanent Press. It’s everything I’ve been looking for - for years.
Do you have to be in a band before you can buy these or is Ok if you’re in-between gigs at the moment?
Nom! These effects are delicious. Wish I had an excuse to need them…
Folks, you should seriously think about doing something else if you can’t do these kind of manipulations w/out the help of this program.
Cameron, as an example, you are promoting the use of this bullsh*t rather than showing folks how they can use the halftone filter in conjunction with color range?
[Sounds like someone needs to book a trip to Disneyland, pop a cold one, ride a rollercoaster and relax a bit.]
Thanks for the link, Cameron. This is cool stuff, and inspiring.
@ #8, I’m leaving your comment rather than deleting it as a reminder to you and other trolls to pony up your name and email or URL if you’re going to post derogatory remarks that you probably wouldn’t say in person.
thanks for showing, not just telling, the difference b/w these filters.
If you buy from Mister Retro, you can have them printed on canvas at www.canvaspress.com.
sorry, forgot to give you the link,
CanvasPress
Ooo! These are lovely. Thanks so much Cameron! ^_^.
Excellent gig posters here I come!
hello, i’m french and my english it isn’t perfect but i just ave on question for you !
What can i buy mister retro product when i am french, must i download the product or i just received this…
thank you for you response !

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1 Michael Thompson ~ 23 September 2008
Between this and Veerle’s post today about Phantasm CS, it’s a great day to be a designer/illustrator!