Hi,

I have some rather blurry photos of the bar in a local pub - which I am modelling, so I want to recreate the design in PhotoShop rather than pasting the blurry photo on to the texture for the 3D model.

Here is the texture and the photo:

 

I've used rectangle shape for the top and bottom lips of the bar - not sure how to add depth to that... using some sort of shadowing in layer styles I expect, but how do I re-create the curving lines?

I've tried the pen tool but I'm extremely unpracticed with that so I don't really know how to do this.

I know to click on the pen tool and then position points with the cursor, and I know about using the bezier handles to change the angles of the curves - but that's it. 

I'm not sure how to get the pen tool to actually leave a line behind, or how to make the straight lines and then get the pen tool to make a new line in another layer for the 1st curve - when I try that, the 2nd line becomes connected to the 1st line - despite me moving to a new layer - and it just messes up both lines....

Help!?

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