Picture 320

SO! I have had a fun week.
Well, actually it was a normal week.
But, I just felt really happy!
I still do.
Work is good.
I'm working on things at home.
It's good.

I was getting kind of....humbug.
But, it's all good!
I've been just relaxing.
Enjoying my days off.
I slept 12 hours on Sunday...
Working on my sites again.
I need to edit all my secret videos I have piled on my hard drive.
I have 45GB left....out of 1000.
I need to do some cleaning. :-P
I cleaned my room, but it's messy again.
Fed Jolly Molly, but she not hungry.
So, I gave her some canned food.
That's her treat.
She get's a delicious meal every Wednesday.
Wednesday is just my day.
I do me things.
I've just been enjoying my week.
ENOUGH ABOUT ME!
This was during our walks that my Aunt and I did through some pretty nature trails.
The series also contains Pictures 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 317, 318, and 319.
The picture was made in the same spot as last week's.
Just at a different angle.
I didn't know which one to use.
So, I used them both. :-D
This one had some good lines and layers.
Sky, trees, tall grass, grass...grass.
All straight...except for the trees.
So, I figured it would look great mirrored!
Like Picture 299.
So, I did it.
Mirroring is when I take a half of an image of and flip it, then line it back up with the other half.
That was a rough explanation....
You can see what I mean in the picture above.

This time I did an extra step.

The first mirror is horizontal.

Then, I combine the two into a layer and mirror it again vertically.

But that was the last step.

The first step was to get it to look right.

I haven't black and white in a while.

So, I went start for that.

Saturation all the way down.

Highlights all the way down.

Clarity all the way up.

Shadows all the way up.

And lastly, contrast was half way.

It think it came out AWESOME!

I was going to just go with it from there.

But, I did want it mirrored as well.

That really looked nice as well.

It just looked really good and it stands out.

I like it.

OH LET's COMPARE!

Hover your mouse (the computer one :-P) over the original picture to see the after editing one.
If you're on a touchscreen device, just tap on the picture. You may have to tap more than once.

AMAZING!!
Now, it's time for something NEW!
I love coding.
I have a stack of bookmarked codes that I want to use on my sites.
So, I don't really know how to build this from scratch.
So, I look around on websites that give out free elements that people just type up.
Then, I use that code and customize like crazy to fit my liking.
I do understand a few things, so I'm able to add other things and change things around.
Like when I updated the Image Comparison.
It has gone through many changes.
It's a version 4.0 right now.
I detailed all the changes in my 100th post.
That's when it got to version 3.0.
However, around Picture 287, I was secretly updated to version 4.0.
I talked about on one of my other sites.
That update added mobile support.
Something I really wanted.
Well, with that update....I'm stuck.
I fixed every bug there was and added all that I wanted.
It's perfect.
So....it's time for something new.
I call it...the Image Slider.
Here's how it works...
There's a blue bar in the middle of the picture.
That's the slider.
The slider will disappear when you move your mouse off of the image.
I did that so you can really see the split.
But, it'll come back when you hover over it again.
You can CLICK on it and DRAG it around to get your own split image.
Or, you can use these presets.
Before FULL, After FULL, 50/50, Before a QUARTER, or After a QUARTER.

Before

After

THAT'S IT!
Wasn't that awesome.
You can see the change I do in a new way.
I like the 50/50 setting.
However, there is a cost...
This thing is BUGGY!
It has so many things wrong with it.
You just can't see them though.
It all looks fine to you guys.
I'm trying to work them all out.
I'll try to add it in as much as I can, but it's tricky to get it right.
I can't edit the post in Blogger Compose mode, it breaks the Slider.
So, I have to have it ready off site, then paste it in at the last second in HTML mode.
It's complicated.
Ok, I think I've lost you somewhere.
CUT TO THE VIDEO!!
The last BTS video in the series only have the walks from Day One and Two.
But on Day Three, I recorded a lot more than I should have. :-P
It was 68 minutes uncut.
I got that down to 27 minutes.
But then I wanted to add an update about the Photo Contest stuff at the end.
SO, I added that.
But that was recorded weeks ago.
So, I wanted another more recent update.
Overall the video time came out to 45 minutes.
You can CLICK HERE to see the video or watch it below. 
COME BACK NEXT WEEK!!!