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Triple Troll Link – ??

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When I saw this one, I just knew I had to do it. As a Redditor, it’s something I often see.

The assignment: Find an image of a well-known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure.

I thought long on what to do for this assignment. You just can’t beat Gandalf as Dumbledore quoting Yoda.

Movies and books are too plenty, so I started thinking about video games. Immediately, I thought of The Legend of Zelda.

How many people think that the main character of The Legend of Zelda is named Zelda?

So that’s how I came up with this one:

The Legend of Link

I tried to do a similar style to the Gandalf one because I think it’s more powerful and “realistic” looking…even with a video game character.

I began with this image. Since I wanted to imitate the Gandalf image, I got the color from the back with the dropper and filled the background of a new image, clean image.

Then I used the Magic Wand to get rid of the background from the Link image. I copied it to the dark background and erased any extra bits of white from him.

Then I used the Fixedsys font that I found from this Daily Create page. I gave Link some drop shadow, 3 distance and black multiply.

But then I realized that I didn’t quite follow the directions of this assignment. I was really supposed to have three different universes of characters.

So I went into Photoshop again and changed it around.

The Legend of Robin Hood

When my roommate dressed up as Peter Pan for Halloween, most people thought she was Robin Hood or Link from Legend of Zelda. So I think this works much better.

I just deleted the text from the other Photoshop file, and then added the new text with Chopin Script for the font. I made this distance 5.

I’m pretty happy with this last one, especially since I think a lot of people can relate to it!

 

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