Picture 388

So, is the world still spinning?
I know my head is!
My brain hurts…
This week has been…. Busy.

I have two people to take care of.
All I heard now is my name being called.
I hate being a slave, but oh well.
They need me so I just have to deal with it.
In the last blog post, my sister was having foot surgery.
She doing better.
Everything looks ok.
She had a follow-up appointment today.
I go to see…. The foot.
WOW
WHOA
WOOOOOOOOOO
They hacked it up.
Look at your own risk.
That’s just one spot that they worked on.
There are two other holes but they aren't that big.
So, I had to take her to that.
Then, the grandparents wanted their lawn mowed.
So, I did that.
And then! My mom was released from the hospital.
So, I went and got her.
I haven't been home in ages.
The hospital is my second home.
Oh….. I forgot to mention my mom.
Monday, she was working.
It was 6am….ish.
(I’m going by the report.)
She was organizing and stocking things.
She works at Wally World too; in case you didn't know.
The same one as me.
Anyways, all of the sudden she got dizzy and fainted.
(That’s the short version of that part.)
On the way down, she hit her head of one of the shelves.
Busted her head WIDE open.
A customer wasn't too far away and found her.
There was a cop nearby too.
(So I've heard, I wasn’t there.)
So, she got taken to the hospital.
She finally got cleared to come home today and has 12 staples in her head!
Look at your own risk!
That doesn't look too bad.
I didn't work to move her hair.
So, I've seen some nasty stuff this past week.
I did have to go to work that day my mom got hurt.
My dad called before I left and said what happened.
I went to work and they sent my home.
I didn't want too because I almost had too many points.
I’ll get the boot!
But the managers actually to me to go leave and be with my mom.
They saw what happened.
Well, the aftermath.
They were worried.
So, I shouldn’t get another point because they approved it.
Well, that’s that.
ONTO THE PICTURE!
This week's picture is interesting.
I haven't had time to really make one.
I tried, which you'll see in the BTS video.
But no ideas seemed good enough.
My brain was being overloaded and I couldn’t think.
SO! I dug through old projects and unused things.
Trying to see what I could do.
Then, I found something…
Three years ago, I did a project about fog and sun rays.
A special fun fact, during that project I created the Image Comparison….thing.
TIME FLYS!!
While looking through the folders, there were a few pictures I didn't use!
So….. I will now!!
This was one of the pictures.
I already had it all edited, but I didn't like it.
Here’s what it looked like….

Eh.
It’s a good thing I kept the originals!
So, I started over.
And recolored it.
Plus, I didn't have Lightroom back then.
So, I could do better.
I added much more saturation and clarity.
I turned up the shadows and contrast.
And then brought down the highlights.
This is what I got…

Good.
But I felt like it needed to be cropped.
The original edited one was cropped.
So I opened Lightroom back up….and was amazed.
It loaded the edited picture I just made but it doubled all the changes I did.
It made is look REALLY cool.
It has my style.
Thusly, I went with that one!
Ok, 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.

Now compare the old edited one and the new half edited one...
Just for fun. :-P


AMAZING!!
Just what I wanted!
Now, the Image Slider had a glitch earlier this week.
It just stopped working.
You want to know what I did to fix it?
….. nothing….
I did nothing.
It broke itself and then fixed itself.
WEIRD!!
Let me know if something is wrong.
There an envelope icon in the Top Bar floating at the top of the screen.
Click on that…
ANYWAYS!!
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

ALRIGHT!
I’m going to just add the ORIGINAL VIDEO from three years ago.
It'll be BTS PART 1.
It's 17 minutes 45 seconds of me walking around in foggy places.

You can CLICK HERE to see the video or look below.

Now, BTS PART 2 is me doing all the new changes I did.
It’ll also take about my week and what not.
IT’S A LONG ONE AT 39 MINUTES!!
You can CLICK HERE to see the video or watch it below. 

OK!!
I think that’s all.
I don't know what next week holds.
I don't want to use up all my backups!
Then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on.
I’ll try to do something new!
COME BACK NEXT WEEK!!!