- Sans Serif
406
- Calligraphy
54
- Display
562
- Bold
- Script
177
- Serif
- Retro
158
- Graffiti
67
- Y2K
67
- Elegant
- Western
76
- Gothic
78
- Futuristic
108
- Bubble
73
- Playful
168
- Art Deco
55
- Wedding
- Sports
61
- Brush
- Pixel
94
- Groovy
- Signature
90
- Cartoon
92
- Medieval
63
- Typewriter
54
- Blackletter
- Marker
86
- Grunge
56
- Monoline
52
- Handwriting
- Christmas
15
- Slab Serif
- Cursive
50
- Tall
- Tech
- Fun
- Modern
125
- Vintage
- Luxury
107
- Rounded
117
Trio Riso Text Effect
6 slides
About the product
Our digital risograph prints one color at a time. Just like its analog predecessor, its inks are translucent: where two passes cross, the sheet picks up a color neither drum had on its own. The upgrade is simple: three inks, three Smart Objects, and the overlaps left to do what they do.
Details:
- high-quality PSD file, 4500 x 3000 px at 300 dpi;
- three Smart Objects, one per ink;
- pink, blue and yellow plates, all three set to Multiply;
- five paper and grain overlays with adjustable opacity;
- live text layer set in Cairo Black, free under the Open Font License.
Blue over yellow is green
The three inks have separate Multiply groups, repeating what overprinting does on a real sheet. Pink is #d81d57, blue is #008cbb, yellow is #e8bc00. Cross blue and yellow for green; cross pink and blue for a deep navy; cross pink and yellow for a hot red. Push all three plates over each other and the overlap drops to near black. Three inks, seven colors, depending on how you stack them.
One Smart Object per ink
The three plates are not one artwork tinted three times. Edit Red, Edit Blue and Edit Yellow are separate Smart Objects on a full 4500 x 3000 canvas, and a single edit updates all three or four layers of that ink at once. Change the word in Edit Blue and only the blue run changes. Inside every Smart Object there is a live text layer to type over and an empty layer for your own graphics. The template takes a logo or a drawing as readily as a headline.
Turn the paper up or down
The print has five overlays on top of it: Lights on Multiply, Shadows on Screen, Cardboard on Exclusion, Dust on Linear Light, Grunge on Overlay. All five have opacity sliders, and the whole group has another on top, which takes the paper from a clean proof to a fibrous recycled sheet with visible specks. Every letter also has a soft halo built from three offset copies of itself, like thick ink spreading a hair past the edge it was meant to hold.
An absolute exclusive for the Pixelbuddha community. Trio Riso Text Template is available legally only through Pixelbuddha. No other website, marketplace, or distributor is authorized to offer it.
Usage:
Gig posters, zine covers, album sleeves, art exhibition announcements, club flyers, screen-printed merch, festival programs, record store signage, small press editorial, and risograph studio branding.
FAQ
One PSD file at 4500 x 3000 px and 300 dpi, with the whole effect built inside it. The three ink plates, the five paper overlays and the adjustment layers are all in place and all editable.
Open the Edit Contents group and double-click Edit Red, Edit Blue or Edit Yellow. They open as separate documents, with a live text layer you can retype and an empty layer for your own artwork. Save and close, and the ink run rebuilds itself.
That is the point of splitting them. Give the three plates the same word for a tight overprint, or three different words for the staggered look the template ships with. Move a plate up or down and you change which colors overlap and which ones hold a single ink.
The ink groups are set to Multiply, the same way translucent inks behave on paper. Nothing is painted in by hand, which means any new arrangement you make generates its own overlaps.
Every texture layer has its own opacity, and the group holding them has one more on top. Dial them down for a crisp print, push them up for a rough recycled stock, or hide the ones you do not want.
Adobe Photoshop, with a version that supports Smart Objects. The text layers use Cairo Black, which is free under the Open Font License, so nothing will substitute on your machine once it is installed.
This resource is created for Adobe Photoshop and works best with the latest Creative Cloud version for full Smart Object support.
