Design a Skate-Style Restaurant Menu

Open Lopsy. In the New Document dialog, set Width 900 and Height 1200, then click Create.

Select Background, set the foreground to #1C1C1F in the Color panel's hex field, press G for the Paint Bucket and click the canvas. Then choose Filter → Add Noise…, pick Mono and Gaussian, set Amount to 18 and click Apply. The fine grain reads as grip tape.

Select Layer 1. With the Rectangular Marquee (M), draw four 45 px squares and fill each with Edit → Fill:

• cream #F4EBD3 at (0, 0) and (45, 45)
• near-black #111114 at (45, 0) and (0, 45)

Marquee the whole 90 × 90 tile from (0, 0) to (90, 90) and choose Edit → Define Pattern. Then press Delete to clear the tile and rename the layer Checker Top.

Marquee from (0, 0) to (900, 90) and choose Edit → Fill with Pattern…. Leave Scale and the offsets alone and click Apply. Ten tiles fill the band exactly.

With the band still selected, press Cmd+C and then Cmd+V. The paste lands in place on a new layer. Press V for the Move tool and drag it straight down by 1110 px so it sits on the bottom edge. Rename it Checker Bottom.

Click the top ruler at 60, 450 and 840 for vertical guides: the two margins and the gutter between the menu columns. Click the left ruler at 600, where the menu starts, and at 1030, where the footer starts.

Click Add Layer and name it Deck. Set the foreground to orange #FF5A1F.

1. Marquee from (190, 210) to (710, 450) and use Edit → Fill.
2. Choose the Elliptical Marquee, drag a 240 × 240 circle from (70, 210) and fill it. That's the nose.
3. Drag another 240 × 240 circle from (590, 210) and fill it for the tail.

Trucks bolt on with four holes at each end. With the Elliptical Marquee, drag a 16 px circle centred on each of these points and press Delete. The grip tape shows through.

• x 205 and 245, at y 302 and 358
• x 655 and 695, at y 302 and 358

Press Cmd+D when you're done.

Marquee around the whole deck, from (66, 206) to (834, 454), and press V. Round handles appear just outside the corners. Drag the top-right one upward to rotate the deck about 7° counter-clockwise, so it climbs to the right. Press Enter to commit and Cmd+D to deselect.

Open the deck's effects with the ✦ button on its layer row.

• Tick Stroke. Set the colour to cream #F4EBD3 and Width to 7.
• Tick Drop Shadow. Set the colour to teal #1FB5A6, Offset X 16, Offset Y 18, Blur 0 and Opacity 100.

A zero-blur shadow is the retro sticker look. The stroke also rings each bolt hole, like hardware.

With Deck selected, press T. Set the foreground to cream. Pick Knewave in the Font browser and type 240 in Size.

Then click empty canvas at (150, 560), type Ollie and press Tab.

Click Rasterize Layer at the bottom of the Layers panel. Marquee around the word, press V, and drag a corner rotation handle to turn it the same 7° counter-clockwise as the deck. Press Enter, then Cmd+D.

With the Move tool, drag the word up onto the deck so it sits in the middle. In its effects, add:

• Stroke in ink #111114, Width 7
• Drop Shadow in ink, offset 7 / 9, Blur 0, Opacity 100

The black outline keeps the cream letters clear of the orange and the bolt holes behind them.

Select Ollie and press T. Set the foreground to mustard #FFC93C, the font to Rubik Mono One and the size to 96. In the Text panel, set Letter spacing to 12. Click empty canvas, type EATS and press Tab.

Rasterize it and rotate it 7° counter-clockwise like the deck. Then drag it under the deck's right half so it's centred at about (638, 512). Give it a Drop Shadow in ink, offset 5 / 6, Blur 0.

Select Checker Bottom and click New Group. Name it Burger. Starting from that layer puts the group under the deck in the stack, so the bun can tuck behind it later.

With the group selected, Add Layer puts each new layer inside it. Build the burger bottom-up, each part on its own layer:

1. Bun Bottom (#E9A23B): fill a 161 × 40 ellipse at (90, 548). Marquee from (82, 531) to (258, 564) and press Delete to flatten its top. Then fill a 161 × 10 strip at (90, 555).
2. Patty (#5B2A17): fill a 176 × 35 ellipse at (82, 524).
3. Cheese (mustard): fill a 150 × 11 bar at (95, 517). Then use the Lasso (L) to draw three downward-pointing drips under it, filling each with Edit → Fill.

1. Lettuce (#6BBF3B): press B. In the brush presets, set Size 14, Hardness 100 and Spacing 10. Drag a zigzag from (89, 510) to (256, 510), about 8 px high.
2. Bun Top (#E9A23B): fill a 165 × 106 ellipse at (88, 460). Marquee from (82, 511) to (258, 577) and press Delete to keep only the dome.
3. Seeds: set the brush Size to 5 and the colour to #F8F0DC, then click eight dots on the dome.

Finally, give each of the five layers a Stroke in ink, Width 3, for a cartoon outline.

Click the Burger group row, press V, and drag anywhere on the burger. All five parts move together. Drop it about 190 px right and 11 px down, so its right edge sits about 10 px from the E and the top of the bun hides under the deck's teal shadow. The burger and EATS now read as one logo.

Select EATS, add a layer named Sticker, and fill a 130 × 130 circle at (60, 482) with pink #FF4F8B.

Type the label in Rubik Mono One 15, ink, Line height 1.2. Click at (76, 525) and type three spaces, NO, Enter, SCOOTERS, then Tab. The spaces centre the short word, because every letter in a mono font is the same width.

Choose Layer → Merge Down to merge the words into the circle. Rotate the sticker 12° counter-clockwise, then add a Stroke in cream 6 and an ink Drop Shadow at 5 / 6, blur 0.

Set Space Mono Bold 17, cream, Letter spacing 4. Click at (150, 112) and type SKATEPARK SNACK SHACK · EST. 1998 · PIER 9. If the middle dots won't type, paste the line in with Cmd+V.

Add a layer named Star L. With the Lasso, draw a five-point star around (112, 122), about 32 px across, and fill it with mustard. Press Cmd+C and Cmd+V, rename the paste Star R, and drag it to (790, 122).

A paste in place has no selection, so marquee around the star again before you rotate it. Turn it about 24° clockwise so the pair doesn't look copy-pasted, then press Enter.

Set the footer now, before the menu columns (see the tip in the menu columns step).

• OPEN DAWN 'TIL STREETLIGHTS in Rubik Mono One 19, cream, Letter spacing 1, clicked at (60, 1040).
• cash / card - pier 9 skatepark - helmets optional in Space Mono Regular 13, #B9B09C, at (62, 1076).

For the tag, set Sedgwick Ave Display 56 in pink. Click in empty space and type eat & shred. Rasterize it, drag it into open canvas, rotate it 8° counter-clockwise, and drop it bottom-right, centred at about (712, 1066). A Stroke in #1C1C1F 4 plus an ink shadow at 4 / 4 makes it look like a sticker on the wall.

Add a layer named Tape Burgers and fill a 222 × 50 rectangle at (52, 614) with mustard. Type BURGERS on it in Rubik Mono One 30, #1C1C1F, Letter spacing 2, clicked at (64, 616). Then Merge Down and rotate the strip 2° counter-clockwise.

Do the same for Tape Sides: a 352 × 50 strip at (462, 614) reading SIDES+SHAKES, rotated 2° clockwise. Tilting the two strips opposite ways looks hand-taped.

Add a layer named Rules and press B. In the brush presets, set Size 6, Hardness 100 and Spacing 260. With spacing that wide, the brush stamps separate dots.

With cream as the foreground, click (62, 690) and Shift-click (428, 690). Then click (472, 690) and Shift-click (838, 690). Set Spacing back to 10 afterwards.

Each column is two multi-line text layers. The item names are one layer and the descriptions another, spaced to the same 82 px rhythm:

• Descriptions: Space Mono Regular 15, #B9B09C, Line height 1.4, Paragraph spacing 61.
• Names: Space Mono Bold 24, cream, Line height 3.42, Paragraph spacing 0.

Create the right column first: descriptions at (472, 756), then names at (470, 698). Then do the left column: descriptions at (62, 756), names at (60, 698). The descriptions end up 14 px under their names, so each pair reads as one item.

Point text ignores alignment, so the prices use area text. Set Permanent Marker 34, mustard, Line height 2.41, and set Align to Right. Then drag a box with the Text tool from (340, 700) to (428, 760), type the four prices on separate lines, and press Tab.

Drag a second box from (750, 700) to (838, 760) for $4, $5, $6, $6. The right column now ends exactly on the 840 guide. Use the Move tool and Up to nudge each price layer until the numbers sit on the item names' baselines.

Select Background and add a layer named Overspray. Press J for the Spray tool and set Size 70, Density 45 and Opacity 60. With orange as the foreground, spray one arc around the deck's nose and another around its tail. Use long, sweeping drags, because very short moves lay down almost nothing.

Set the layer's row opacity to 45%. The speckle then looks like paint that missed the deck.

Select the top layer in the stack and add a layer named Grain. Set the foreground to #808080 and choose Edit → Fill. Then use Filter → Add Noise… with Amount 40, Mono and Gaussian.

In the layer's effects, set Blend to Overlay, then set the row opacity to 35%. Mid-grey disappears in Overlay, so only the noise shows, as a printed-paper grain over everything.

Turn off View → Show Guides to check the layout. Then choose File → Quick Export PNG for the image, and File → Save Project to keep every layer, group and effect editable for next season's menu.

To keep going, swap in your own trick-named dishes, or recolour the deck and its shadow for a night-session version.