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So….It's almost a new year!
I'm excited for next year!
I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm excited for it.
It couldn't be any worse than this year.
Well….it could.

This year was kind of bad for me.
I quit my job and can't get a new one.
I broke a camera and my PS4 is having an issue.
And I have no money.
I'm ending the year with 22 cents to my name.
However, through all this and many other things, I'm still going here.
I'm always optimistic.
I do tend to focus on the bad though.
Like when something good happens, I'd be excepting the bad any moment.
And that's been the case these past few weeks.
I came back out of a sad slump and broke my camera.
I get news my camera is fixed and on its way back and then I get told I'm never going to get hired at Sam's Club.
My camera comes back and then my PS4 breaks.
I fix my PS4 and then I run out of money.
The PS4 was easy to fix and it's been fine so far.
Just a touchy eject button.
The money run out because thinks that I told not to renew…renewed.
The only things that I have been pay have been PS+, Spotify, and Word.
All $10 a month.
Since I was almost out of money, I told them all not to renew and just run out.
Well, Word and PS+ had different ideas.
They renewed.
And Spotify tried but couldn't because there was no money.
I would have rather wanted that than Word.
I like my Zen music.
So…yeah.
It's been rough lately.
I miss my money!
I miss being able to buy things that I need!
Like right now, the contest is coming up.
My Aunt and I have no money for ink!
How are we going to print the pictures!
We need a lot too because we are going 8x10s.
A lot of the ones from last year were 8x10.
So, we are in a pickle.
My mom said she’d help.
How nice of her!
ANYWAYS!
Speaking of the contest….
IT’S TIME FOR THE PICTURES!
Well, not the ones that I’m entering.
Just the extra ones that I made with me in them.
That’s also another thing.
We aren’t using any with me in them.
The judges last year like close ups of things.
So, we got close ups of things.
And that liked bigger pictures.
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!
AGAIN!
I hope.
Back to the pictures…
I made six pictures the first day and four the second day.
There was a lot more, but they got cut for being bad. :-P
The second day wasn’t going to have ay because I didn’t get any good ones.
BUT! I did my magic and made a few of them work.
Ok. That’s that.
Let’s begin.
This was the first picture made on the first day.
So, it’s like the first picture of the whole project.
No wait, I did make seven before that of pretty flowers!
There were two versions of this one.
One serious…one not so much.
Here’s the other…
….wait….oops….
I deleted it.
Hold on…
Just for this project I have extra copies of EVERYTHING.
There it is.
Ok.
Here it is…

However…I didn’t like it.
You know what unprofessional I am.
I can be serious.
I was seriously cold in that picture!
Distractions!
I was having a good time and didn’t want to be!
So, I picked the opposite of what other people picked.
Other people being my Mom and Aunt. :-)
Now the coloring was a bit tricky.
Because this one picture would influence the rest!
Because the all series have to sort of have the same style.
But also be different in their own way.
So, the similar thing between them is the clarity setting.
It’s all the way up in all of them.
Along with contrast and brightness…sort of.
Brightness, highlights, and shadows still were different in each one.
But that was to only make them look the same.
The only thing I played with for each picture was saturation.
Each one has a different level of it.
Super saturated or almost black and white.
This one was obviously saturated!
And that’s all I did.
I did take a while to get right.
I worked on all the pictures at once.
So that helped with the style and feel.
COMPARE!!!

Hover your mouse (the computer one :-P) over the original picture to see the after editing one.
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AMAZING!!
That was a good change!
Let's try 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 our on split image.
Or, you can use these presets.
Before FULL, After FULL, 50/50, Before a QUARTER, or After a QUARTER.

Before

After

OK! That’s all.
I said earlier that there were two days!
And that’s how the BTS videos will be split up.
Like last time.
Also like last time…
I’m not upload them yet.
I’ll upload a BTS video when I upload the last picture from that day.
I’ll throw in the contest videos in somewhere too.
That’s at the end of January.
Ok?
Ok.
I didn’t type that much in this post.
I guess I’m all bumped out about the current situations.
Things will get better next year.
So….COME BACK NEXT YEAR!!