It finally came around - this week we have the 200th edition of Something for the Weekend! To celebrate I though we should share a cake. The cake is baked and iced in the picture below but it needs decorating, and that's where you come in. The “rules”: Use the starter image as at least part of your own image entry. Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc. Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum “regulars”. There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go! The starter image is made available for you to use in this forum challenge only. Sorry to emphasise this, but the image is not for use elsewhere. To download the image, hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser). When posting back your image — please use the blue reply button in this first post and use the 'Insert Photos' icon at the top of the reply box. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry, then please use the grey reply button next to their image post. Have fun! Dave

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Something for the Weekend - Part 200 - Celebration cake.

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October 27, 2023
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It finally came around - this week we have the 200th edition of Something for the Weekend!

To celebrate I though we should share a cake. The cake is baked and iced in the picture below but it needs decorating, and that's where you come in.

The “rules”:

Use the starter image as at least part of your own image entry.
Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc.
Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum “regulars”.
There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!
The starter image is made available for you to use in this forum challenge only. Sorry to emphasise this, but the image is not for use elsewhere.

To download the image, hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right.

Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser).

When posting back your image — please use the blue reply button in this first post and use the 'Insert Photos' icon at the top of the reply box. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry, then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

Have fun!

Dave

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Jacob Bugge

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Jacob Bugge

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The mouse is pondering over the addition to the Lucas number and its likeness to something with the Golden ratio.

davescm

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That's what I was missing - Lucas numbers! Now it makes sense to me.

Dave

jane-e

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@davescm wrote on 07 Jan 2018: "If I start one of these again..."

Dave

So glad you kept going past that first one Dave, and looking forward to SFTW 201 tomorrow morning!

Jane

davescm

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Haha - we do like a bit of math here Jane! I wonder who has been walking across the cake though?

I've just realised what day it is - another mystery starting soon ......

Dave

jane-e

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Haha, Dave — if you don't want to do the math (or use Excel), your best guess will probably work here! It's a run-on number, but the first two decimals are zero.

Jane

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Trevor.Dennis

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Bob, why do they call them tealight candles?

Oh, and I like the texture applied only to the icing. That's a nice touch.

EuanWilliamson

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Best regards, Euan.

TheOriginalGC

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It was delicious. 🙂

davescm

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Haha, very good GC. You finished what Euan started

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

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I added a brush preset today (from Jesus Rameris upload about the new blur background feature in Camera RAW)

and later realised that the preset was not available in the beta version. It's entirely obvious of course, but I hadn't thought about it and could have been caught out. So I have changed the way I manage brush presets (for a start). I have moved them all to a folder of Adobe assets in Windows Documents, and placed a shortcut to that folder in both 25.1.0 full release, and 25.2.0 beta.

What I am thinking is that with a 100 plus .abr brush files, I definitely go a very long time between using some of those groups, and could easily go past the previous major version presets, workspaces etc. that remain after a major update, and lose groups I have added in the last year. It's not foolproof because if you create new groups and presets and export them, they go into the preset folder so you'll need to remember to export them to the new location, but having done so, they'll be available in both full release and beta versions.

Trevor.Dennis

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Getting an early start for Guy Fawks on the 5th 🙂

I innitially used Generative Expand to extend the tablecloth to make room for the sparkler, but then thought it would look nicer with a proper background, and deleted the added pixels. The weird thing is that when updating the smart object later on, it still regenerated the bit I deleted, even though it wasn't there any more.

davescm

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That's a very nice job with the sparkler - what did you use?

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

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I usually look for existing frame animations that have either a black or transparent background. In this case it was black so the usual setting the layer to screen. The sparkler had 27 frames, and it turns out that you can't change a blend mode unless the layer was turned on. It would have taken a while to go through frame by frame, so I turned all of the layers on, changed the blend mode, and remade the animation using Layers to frames.