Saturday, December 17, 2016

Picture 407 | A Walk through the Park-Part 1...


So, it begins.
This is the start of the Park Videos!

Click that link to see the end of last year’s videos.
And that should have a link to the start of those videos.
I use a lot of links!
Sorry, this post is a little late.
I was busy studying and finished up my English final.
I had 90 minutes to type up an essay.
I just got done and my brain is tired!
Good news, though.
That’s it.
That was the last assignment for the semester….
…… I’m done.
:-)
NOW I CAN RELAX!!!
Or start worrying about the next semester.
That’s probably what’s going to happen.
ANYWHO! Now I have a bunch of free time!
I can finally work on things!
Like my websites and videos.
I’ve gotten really behind on the Racing videos and on updating the websites.
I did add the Christmas light and the snow button!
It’s in the top left corner of the screen!
I do need to work on the lights.
They aren’t repeating properly.
So, on my BIG TV MONITOR, the lights stop half way across the screen.
Instead of going all the way across.
It depends on screen size.
Go ahead and zoom out in your browser.
Hold down CTRL or CMD and then hit the – key.
Your browser will zoom out and my blog will get small.
Eventually, you’ll notice the lights stop going ALL THE WAY across the top of the screen.
Hold CTRL or CMD and hit 0 to reset the zoom back to normal.
……………… I got distracted…..
What was I talking about?
…………………
:-\
:-/
OH!!! It is that time yet again!
The contest is just around the corner.
We did a lot this year.
There are more videos than the years before.
This is part one of Five.
I think we only had two videos last year.
I didn’t take as many pictures as I thought.
Just more videos.
I think last time I had 10!
I haven’t really looked at what I have this year.
I know there’s a least one picture for each video.
OH! SEGWAY!
Let’s talk about this week’s picture.
This one happened at the end of the day.
Throughout the day, I was finding myself going off the trials.
I was shimmying down steep hills to see what was at the bottom.
I was walking across logs in a river to see what it looked like.
I was being adventurous!
So, when I saw that a toppled tree was making a nice path above the other trees…. I couldn't resist!
While I was up there, my Aunt that it would be a cool picture moment.
My mom was there too!
She was the one that actually took the picture.
She did a good job!
For the coloring, since it was all nature like I decided to add a lot of saturation!
I didn’t add too much clarity because it messed up the leaves in the picture.
It made everything look weird.
I did some contrast as well!!
Simple stuff.
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.

That was the cropping that I did.
Now compare the actual coloring.

AMAZING!!
Just what I wanted!
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 own split image.
Or, you can use these presets.
Before FULL, After FULL, 50/50, Before a QUARTER, or After a QUARTER.
Before
After
OK!!! Onto the video.
The video did get a bit long.
It was two hours unedited.
I got it down to just over 32 minutes.
It covers one of the trips we made to the parks.
This was back in July!
We actually went to two parks in this video.
All in an effort to get some pictures for the contest coming up in January.
Actually, the submission deadline is a few days before the start of my next semester!
Interesting!
Everything happens all at once.
ANYWAYS!
The video has some underwater stuff and all the pictures we took.
It ends with me in the present day editing the picture.
You can CLICK HERE to see the video or watch it below.

ALRIGHT!
That’s one video down!
There’s four more left to do!
Like I said, we really went at it this year.
Hopefully, it pays off!
I don’t know when the next part will be.
I had to change my plans.
So, I’ll see what I have to do and make a proper schedule!
COME BACK NEXT TIME!!!

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