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Something for the weekend - Part 32 - The Inn!

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August 10, 2018
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Hi

Last week's alley challenge brought some great entries so, for this week, I thought we deserved to relax. In these forums we have the lounge but what we really need is a full blown Photoshop pub.

Of course, every pub needs a name and all traditional pubs need a sign. Pub signs in Britain have been around since the 14th century when King Richard decreed that landlords should erect signs outside their premises or forfeit their ale! These days, the signs tend to bear the name of the pub/inn and can be simple graphics or very detailed paintings. A quick google search will show many examples.

So for this week's challenge, can you name the Photoshop pub and give it a suitable sign. I've kicked us off with the "Layer & Mask" but I'm sure you can do better.

As always, anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.

Anyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.

There are no prizes - just the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun.

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Have fun

Dave

sftw

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KShinabery212

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I did not put a lot of time into this as I have things I have to do.... but I could not resist creating a little critter that taunts villagers by climbing on buildings and tossing things at them (will leave that to your imaginations!).

Normally I would add shading and highlights.... but this was just something quick.... also normall I would have given the head more shape and not just an oval... but time constraints.

This was just for fun to brighten your day and make you smile! But I love giving characters a lot of detail.... and even use Adobe Character Animator!

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jane-e

Community Expert

Today Firefox is still rejecting me, but maybe Chrome will like me. We'll see!

Botticelli's Venus was on the splash screens of a number of the earlier versions of Illustrator. Now she tends bar.

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Nice one Jane! I'll have a pint of Vectors.

It's been a great week for participation with images coming in all week.

A new challenge starts tomorrow.

Dave

OldBob1957

Inspiring

Wow! Lots of good ones already.

Anyway; here's something still simple, but a bit more whimsical than last week's giant spiders.

-- OB

davescm

Author

Community Expert

I would have a drink there OB

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

davescm wrote
I would have a drink there OB
Dave

You'd have drink anywhere!

Chris has been looking at the family history of our tiler who it turned out had a lot more Maori ancestors than he realised. She was able to tell him that his great grandfather died falling off a horse when drunk, and he quipped straight back 'I like him already.' He has been full of one liners, and we'll be sorry to see him go. It reminded me that my granddad used to take the horse and cart to market once a month, and get so drunk he'd sleep all the way home, and the horse would take him there with no direction.

I have just been telling jane-e that Bert Monroy has just uploaded a project to Behance , and by heck, it puts us in our place. It's wonderful that even someone like Bert continues to improve, because while his characters are still similar to his work in Times Square all those years ago, the buildings are sensationally good. I shall endeavour to never do another window by simply filling it with a yellow glow again. It must have taken Bert a lot longer than an extended weekend to produce all that detail, and thinking about it, if Bert was no longer challenged, and finding new ways to do better work, he'd have got too bored with the process to continue.

chanaart

Community Expert

Beautiful images!!!

Here is a simple one from our AEL Summit in SF!

Ussnorway7605025

Legend

I like how you space them out boy, girl, boy, girl and black hair, white hair

Semaphoric

Community Expert

Took forever, but here it is (I have LOTS to learn about animation!):

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Hi

Semaphoric that is an excellent idea and very well executed.

Chana - that pub needs a name. How about "The Four Amigos".

Pierre - you've set an additional challenge there. I'll have a go later.

Dave

chanaart

Community Expert

You are right! Will do!

Rista12

Participating Frequently

I couldn't resist doing one more.

davescm

Author

Community Expert

That's clever !

Dave

Ussnorway7605025

Legend

keeping with the translation theme... here is one for my mates across the pond

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Hi

Rista I love the "Mouse and Feather". It's in keeping with the Photyoshop theme and is that the feather that used to be on the old CS box?

Semaphoric - you have me scratching my head trying to think of a town!

Ussnorway - we'll have to see what Trevor makes of that one

Keep them coming.

Dave

Rista12

Participating Frequently

Dave thank you!

The feather was the CS2 Icon before those became drab, boring and indistinguishable.

Rista12

Participating Frequently

Semaphoric

Community Expert

I'm still thinking about my sign, but I found where yours is, Dave:

Bonus points for naming the town - it's obvious!

Rista12

Participating Frequently

Corner Layer Rd and Mask St., San Jose, CA ??

Semaphoric

Community Expert

Wrong hemisphere.

KJerryK

Legend

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Is it me or has that wording changed since you first posted Jerry ?

Dave

KJerryK

Legend

Good eye -- I'm having a little trouble with the translation, so tried another version. Notice that I also hid some of the text so i can do a little fudging if challenged. What I probably should do is put all the possibilities on a little slide show to keep changing on the sign. But I made a promise to myself that for Part 32 I would do only still images, and I will (do my best to) keep that promise.

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