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Gosh... worried this might be on the borderline of "trek-earth" acceptability, but after my note, maybe you'll agree that it has "cultural" value?

Growing up, my Dad collected these beer bottle caps. I'm 31 now and my parents have these sitting in a container to this day. On the bottom of each cap is a word puzzle. You can make some out in the picture. "Time on my hands" is the center one. I decided it would be interesting to throw them all together to capture a moment from child hood.

Also, I think this must be a generic brand beer from the 80's. Was wondering if anyone knew what brand it was. I purposely left one cap turned right side up on the bottom middle of the picture to help someone reckognise this beer. I'm guessing it's some cheap American Beer if I know my Dad.

I use to have a blast as a kid trying to figure out the puzzles. They don's seem so hard as an adult but some are tough. Knock yourself out.

Thanks for any feedback!

Shane

Photoshop:
1. levels/curves
2. Distortion to curve picture(can't remeber the filter?)
3. crop to square
4. added boder by increasing canvas size, then duplicating the image. On the bottom later i blurred it and made it large enough to cover the canvas. Added a stroke.
5. guassion blur and painted back the middle so it was sharp in the center and soft around the edges.