at's right. And we're, and they're getting billed for, for what goes, doesn't go down the drain. Or they water their lawn. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I agree with Perry. I think it would be a dangerous precedent. I think over the years that I've been involved in modern sewer, we've always held firm that it's based on water usage. Even though other people didn't want that, like BTC, they wanted to have meters of the sewer that went in. We said, no, it's based on water usage. We've consistently said that in my knowledge. Well, we have consistently said that for as long as I can remember. Right. If I, if I could add a little more for the board to consider. I'm not a proponent one way or another. I'm just bringing this to the board so that the board can consider it and share with the board the work that staff has done. But some of the. We have in the past have had residents come and say, I water my lawn. Why do folks with swimming pools get a credit, but I don't get a credit. The reason why we're able to provide a credit for, for say, for example, swimming pool is because there is a source for the calculations. We know how much water is going to go into a particular container. And then we were able to base that abatement on the size of the swimming pool. In this case with freedom foods, they were able to prove the amount of water that goes into the formula that they use for any particular product, which is how we were able to reach the calculation or use a calculation to determine the amount. Of the water that didn't go into the, into the sewer. The difference between the swimming pool and this product. Well, actually the swimming pool and the product are the same in that we're able to determine the exact amount of water used. Whereas watering lawn, watering plants, washing vehicles. There's no way for us to be able to actually calculate the amount of water used for those items. That's just, that's the difference. It doesn't make it right. I'm just, I'm just sharing that. That is the difference. And it's loosely pointed into, into the sewer abatement in that there is a calculation that is used for one particular item. And I just share that with you so that the board have a point to discuss. You know, it's up to the board to decide. I'm not advocating one way or another. So I'm looking. Perry, you're on me. You're muted. You're muted, Perry. So I'm more than happy to continue to discuss this, but you know, in this particular case, my guess is that probably the water going into those food products all has to be filtered and comes from one single source. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but it seems like it could be metered. And then we'd have a better understanding. And I'd be more than happy to put a meter on my faucet down there so I can tell you exactly how much money I use in the trucks when I'm washing my vehicles, which is a substantial amount of water. I'm still paying that sewer charge. So if we're going to adopt the policy, then I think that policy needs to address everything. So it's equitable. And I think water metering is the best way to do it. This, this, this is, this is something which has not come up before in front of the sewer and the water committee in terms of. How water is, is metered on. Well, let's put it this way. It hasn't come up in the last 10 years. Yeah. Sure. Not since, not since I've been on the committee. I'm looking at the policy right now. And it's, it is actually rather vague in terms of, it doesn't actually say that the reason why certain kinds of activities are permitted and certain, you know, in terms of getting credit and certain other, or isn't because of being able to measure the amount of water. So like it does say that an allowable abatement is the filling of a swimming pool. And that the, the abatement needs to be, and the question needs to be made prior to filling the pool. But then it says things like, well, a broken water pipe, you know, where the water did not enter the wastewater system.  Well, you would have, if it was metered. I guess, yeah, but compared to, you would have taken a calculation and said, Oh, this month, you know, they used 15,000 gallons of water and typically they only used a thousand gallons. So you would have been able to make that calculation. That could work if you used a regular amount of water all the time. But if you had fluctuations in your usage, it could be off by quite a bit too. Well, we have a lot of historical data for every household, I'm sure. And I think that's how it's been addressed in the past. Yeah. No, that's a good point. So like I'm saying, I'm all for it. But if you, if you want it, if we want to do this, then I'm saying, let's, let's put on water meters in these situations where that water, there's a significant amount of water not going down the sewer line. And we can read that water meter once a month. So once every three months. It's not clear what your position on the, on the, on the issue at hand is though, are you suggesting that we. Are you suggesting that we turn down this abatement until such time as we address the. The overall policy. Well, I'm kind of leaning in that direction because I could bring you back data that takes a look at my water bill and probably calculate the number of trucks I washed over the cars of the summer and say, oh, hey, I want to credit for this. Yeah. So I'm just, you know, apples to apples here. And then you want it retroactive. Yeah, I guess. Well, and they wanted an ongoing basis. Not just the one time. Right. I think this brings up an important point. I think the water wastewater committee needs to. To talk about this and come up with a recommendation for the select board in terms of policy going forward. It certainly seems as though, and I'm agreeing with you, Perry, now that you're explaining this better. That it really is a matter of what's, what's measurable. That is not specifically stated in the policy. As far as I can tell, although it's implied strongly. It does seem as though we, what we might consider doing is. Is adding a. Parts of the policy that says that if you have. You know. Faucets that are used in such a way that we know the water is not going into the waste stream. So I think that. That. That business owners or, or. Whoever it is can. Can put a meter on that and have that number subtracted from their. From their wastewater. I think that would be the fair way to do it. Fair way to do it. So can I move that we would it be appropriate to table this? Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. Let me just interrupt you for a moment. I think that keeping in the, in the spirit of the, of the, of the policy, which is that if it is measurable. That we, that we can abate it. That's since this is. Even though it's not metered, it's still measurable. That we give them the benefit of the doubt and allow this abatement. And that we then, but go forward with constructing a policy where that we can then tell water users. Very specifically. If you use water to water your lawn or wash your cars. That you do not need to pay for that going into the sewer. That's. And I think it's a, I think it would be really great to have that too. Because it's right, right now, the way it's stated. You know, it's a, it's a huge disincentive. For people to have like a backyard garden. Right. Because they don't want to pay the sewer bill. Been there, been there, done that. So, so I think this is something that we should take on. My, my only concern is what's the added cost. That's just one more meter per household potentially, right? And who's going to bear the cost of those. Addressable meters now. Well, I said I'd pay for my own meter if I knew it was going to save me money. Yeah. Well, I mean, that would be my inclination, but I think we could discuss it at the level of the committee and bring it back to the board. So I think that this is a measurable thing. We're taking all data that comes from them. We don't have a, you know, third party or an unbiased way of measuring it. And what we're talking about now is.  I think we're taking some documents that came out of freedom. That are all generated by them that said, Hey, give me the credit. Either they have to have some way of, of measuring that water flow that isn't. Totally in their control. To give us that number. I mean.  I mean, if they're putting 300 gallons of water into a vessel and making 300 gallons of clam chowder. You know, whatever volume, they know how much water they're putting in each recipe, just like we do when we're cooking at home. How do we know they're making that recipe?  Not just of them saying, well, when I make this recipe, it takes 300 gallons of water. Well, did you make that recipe? Well, I didn't today. You know, it's. My understanding was that. Was that cliff was satisfied that they were actually doing what they were saying they were doing. Is that right? Cliff. That's correct. I mean, you have to have batches and you have to have batch numbers so that if there's a problem with it later on, you can recall it. And so they're. To me, that's very similar of, you know, it's FDA control. And so it's very similar to the reports that Chris is filing. So could Perry provide you with a report that said, I washed X number of trucks and it takes so many gallons of water per truck to wash. And here's where I've documented the date and time I did each truck. So give me a credit. And he doesn't have to buy a meter, right? Well, that's a little, that would be a little different. You know, again, because, because of. The item that Larry pointed out about measurable is that.  This is the amount of water that comes out of my water hose. And this is the pressure. Yeah, that's, that's the challenge with. Washing cars in, in a driveway. I'm not, that's not to say that, you know, it is impossible. But the difference is that putting liquid into a container until it's full and it contains two cups. We know that it's two cups because it's going into a container. Yeah. Washing vehicles is much more subjective because we don't know how long we're standing in an area. You know, how much water is actually the pressure. It's very different. Yeah. Oh, I agree. Different. That's why you need a water meters. Right. That's a solution. Perry. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, shouldn't our process be to have a way in which it's not adding extra work onto the town. To be able to calculate what that credit is. A meter does that, having to go in and confirm if somebody made the batch and it's got all this other stuff. That to me seems like we're asking. For a $200 credit to freedom foods. To be able to go in and confirm that that's the credit. It should be given. Yeah. Thank you. You would be setting a bad precedent, which a lot of people would be interested in doing. Plus causing yourself more work. And you're being inconsistent about how people are being. And, and, you know, Another issue just occurred to me. Um, Based on what Trini and Perry have said, and I hadn't thought of this earlier. Um, yeah, it might take 300 gallons of water to make a batch of soup at freedom foods. And I'm just throwing that example out there, but it also takes, um, Probably a couple of, you know, Dozen gallons to clean that tank out. When the soup's done.  So I don't know how you distinguish. In any given recipe or process, a brewery would be an even better example. If we ever recruited a micro brewery to town, They're using hundreds upon hundreds of gallons of water every time they brew a batch of beer, But then they're brewing, then they're using a couple of bottles of beer every time they brew a batch of beer. I don't know all that too. And how do you separate that? I just, I don't know. My guess is that a situation like that would have metered sewer. Okay. All right. So that's an option here. I mean, either metered sewer or water meter going to the specific process. You know, my guess is all the water that's going into those batches is getting filtrated. So probably it's coming from one line. So it's a question that I would want to ask is it's like, okay, is there a single place where the water can come through? Okay. And that we can meet her. And then you'll know what got used in that process. Anything that's going to be washed water would come from a different place. It wouldn't have to be filtered. Got it. Okay. And if you get many people doing that, What you're doing is putting the rates on to the other people that aren't doing that. I understand that, but this way it's actually fair because the ones who are using the water and not using the sewers are really supplementing or they're, they're actually supplementing the, the sewer side of the, the equation by the water that's not being going down the sewer line. So I don't know. I think it's fair to water meter everything. Your other option is to sewer meter. Everything. That's true. Which also I think is more complicated. Yeah. And that's why we don't do it. I don't know. That's right. Really do it in special cases. Hey, so, uh, We have this, uh, Adjustment and requested. It sounds like there's a whole lot of questions around it. Um, Pleasure of the board. I'd like to send it back to the water sewer committee. And just bat that around a little bit what we've discussed here. So Larry could probably lead that discussion. We'll send in another meeting. I was going to make the same suggestion. The best issues come from the water wastewater committee. This is the most interesting stuff. I'm sure it is. Next. Next to planning.  So it's fair. I love the fact that just a minute is changing her screen to, um, every time she's sort of. Nausea head in wonder minute what we're doing here. There you go. Because we've been at this for quite a while. Grant. We have grants. Uh, the better roads grant is one that I'm, I'm hoping to ask, um, I'm hoping to obtain approval from the select board to apply. For a grant, um, there, there is one project that we could apply for funding, but there are also other projects that we could potentially seek funding for. Um, but if the select board would just authorize town staff to apply for this grant, we can then, um, find the more appropriate project and apply for grant funding. If I may jump in, was there not a movement for the freedom foods? Nope. We sent it back to the committee. Thank you very much. Um, so what type of projects are you looking at on that grant?  Waterways. Um, um, you know, until recently we were considering applying for funds for this project for the, uh, being real road culvert project, but you know, now that that project is coming in far below what we had initially thought there could be other opportunities, um, you know, elsewhere, um, you know, we have other issues, especially up on North Randolph road. Uh, we could apply for the North Randolph road, um, project up there. Um, so mostly they're related to, um, you know, in our case and in our upcoming target to target paved roads and, you know, improving dirt roads, it would be a, uh, a road project for, for better stormwater making it into waterways. Didn't, I think the, Yeah. Didn't do rivers. Give us some projects that this might work for. Um, we are working with two rivers on the grant and aid, which is money that we have to, you know, for ditching and other things. So, uh, yes, we can, um, use this funding for, you know, projects that are identified by two rivers. Um, one of those project was the North Randolph road. And that was one of our grant and aid with, with, um, a guardrail that was installed up there. So, um, you know, we could use it for, I, I, I would recommend the North Randolph road project because that's more pressing. We did receive a grant. Although we haven't brought it to the board yet because we haven't received the grant agreement, but we were given a grant to fund a scoping study for North Randolph road, but applying for this grant for better roads would help us with the actual construction of that project. And that's going to be a very costly project. You're asking approval to apply for the grant, but there was no actual project selected yet. Not yet. Um, we had initially thought of beanville road and I think we could actually apply for the grant for North Randolph road. If the, if the board had a specific, you know, had a preference between beanville or North Randolph, direct to still apply for the project for North Randolph. Or beanville. What about what's going on down in the stock farm road? Is that as big a priority? Not as big a priority as North Randolph, but it is a priority because the river, it's really dependent on the, on the, on the movement of the river. Right. Um, it hasn't moved as quickly as it did before.  So there was less water flowing through that river. But, uh, yes, at some point that's going to become a big issue as well. And that would be eligible for grants from some other place like stream bank erosion and stuff like that or not. Uh, it would be eligible for other grants. The, the better roads is Ella is, is capped at $60,000. Um, and that project is probably going to run a lot more than $60,000. Yeah. So, um, we're not at a point where we're ready to actually start doing any work on that project. All right. But it is an important project. I just know it's out there. So. Yeah. Well, it's going to take as one big storm to send that one right to the road. Given, given that all these projects will need to be done sooner or later. Shouldn't we just apply for the project that will be most likely to get the award? Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah. Was that a motion Larry? Uh, absolutely. I'll second that wholeheartedly. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Stained motion carries local government expense reimbursement award. in seeking to make ourselves whole from all of the expenses related to the COVID response. This, the narrowness of what we can apply for through FEMA is, you know, I will share with the board that it is, it's ridiculous. So the LGR, the Elger Grant as it's known here in the state is meant to supplement towns or supplement funds that towns don't receive through FEMA through the state of Vermont. The narrowness of funds through the state is also somewhat narrow, but it's much more broad than FEMA. We have incurred a cost of roughly $19,200 in change on COVID response actions. Most of that was for the Sheriff's Department in there 10 weeks that the board had approved early on. We have been approved for up to $19,000 from 19,000 plus for Elger. There's still some statutory requirements that we have to, you know, comply with and follow through, but if the board were to now vote to accept the grant money which would come with no strings attached it's essentially just giving us money because we've spent it on COVID response. Then once the state issues the grant to us we can just accept it and include it into our funds. I'll be back in a minute or two. I'll move that we accept the Elger reimbursement funds. A second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. And carries preservation trust for the Kimball library. I received a request from Amy Grasmick director of the library. She had found a grant that is being made available through the preservation trust of Vermont. She was hoping to receive board approval to apply for the grant. It was something that was briefly alluded to during public comments by trustee of Kimball library. The challenge with, the challenge is not with accepting with applying for the grant. We think it would be a good grant. The challenge is that we do not know exactly what the cost of repairs to the Koopalop of the library will be. We have estimates that, you know range I believe in the $100,000 range. So this is an opportunity for grant money that is available. It would fit with the project. However, there is a challenge that we don't know the total cost of the project. Would the grant cover the total cost of the project or require matching dollars on the part of the town? I mean, the lack of a, I don't know about this grant but the lack of a firm estimate doesn't necessarily, doesn't seem like it should necessarily preclude us from applying for, or Amy from applying for the grant. I don't quite get what the issue is there. Well, the challenge is the cost. I know that there is a match and I would have to re-review the information shared in Amy's action item sheet. I don't recall the actual total amount of the match. I do know that in the capital plan much like we did with Chandler we had also allocated roughly about $25,000 for repair at the library. So we don't believe that that $25,000 is going to cover the cost of the project. We believe that the cost of this project is going to be roughly around in the $100,000 range. We'll take a few thousand. The $25,000 may be used as a match depending on the total match. And I'm reviewing the material now for the match requirements. But if it was a 20% match and the project was $100,000 we would have the match. If it's a 50% match we would not have the money for the project. Right. What's the deadline for the application? The application deadline is Tuesday of next week, I believe. Oh, wow. Tuesday is a popular date now, yeah. Yeah, it's December 15th, right? Yeah. February, right? I don't know if I'm right. The action item sheet says it's due January 15th. January 15th. Oh. The grants are between $50,000 and $100,000 and the highest cost of the project is 129,000. So, you know, full replacement, this watershed or whatever is proposing is 85 to 129, which I would love to give estimates on construction projects with that much freeway in them. But, you know, if we ended up with $100,000 in the grant it seems like between the town and the library we could come up with the other 30. Yeah. And if we've got till January, that should be plenty of time to get some more firm estimates. And guaranteed, I would think they're gonna, given what Adolfo said, they're gonna fit somewhere in that rather extensive range. I'd like to move that we go ahead and authorize Amy to pursue this. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed, abstained. Motion carries. Old business. I have one piece of old business that actually relates to grants and it's actually some very good news. The Arts and Culture Committee and the person of myself in this case received a phone call from Ashley Lincoln of the Lamson Howell Foundation and we will be receiving $4,000 grant from Lamson Howell toward the match for the Burn Foundation grant for the Village Mural Project and coupled with the $2,000 we have raised locally towards that grant. We've now, towards that challenge grant we've now reached the $6,000 threshold which will trigger a check for Mrs. Byrne and we have the $12,000 committed to move forward with the project next spring. Perfect. So very good. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Well done. Thank you. So now under old business we have town meeting and town report. Yes, we wanted to ask the select board if we have to have budget meetings specifically on the budget coming up and if the board wanted to select meetings tonight we could certainly do that as it's been the custom but we've also transitioned to identifying meeting dates and times through a doodle poll. So if the board would prefer we could identify two future dates in the very near, you know, fairly near future to have budget information meeting so that the board can review the budget and the capital plan. I think I'd rather see the doodle poll because after all the discussion about the capital plan it would be nice to give that group at least a chance to look at it. Okay. Good to me. Yeah. I agree. I'm agreeing with that. Um, so on town report a couple of things we need to do Pat made the recommendation that the town report be dedicated to Joyce this year. Any opposition to that? I think that's an excellent idea. That was good to me. And so Pat, are you gonna write the little blurb to go with her picture? I will, yeah. I wrote the one for Doris, so I'd be happy to. And then the little departure of town manager report writer. The weird one, Pat, gets that assignment. We need to write up the accomplishments of the select board for the year. Oh boy. There's one person that likes to write in this group really well. Who would that be? I haven't noticed that. Look at the box, light up. I'm, when do you need that by? Essentially by our printing deadline which would be mid-January. We have to get everything to the printers before late January, but we try to build in a window because everyone's usually not on time. You're on, I'll take that on training. Might have a lot to say about the length of this meeting tonight. I'm happy to take that on. Do you need out of the select board for that? I don't believe so. I think, Emery, do you know if I'm missing anything? Emery's been keeping me on track. Yeah, a general narrative. I know you're talking about some specifics but I think the select board needs a general narrative. I don't know if that's under what you're talking about. Yeah, I agree to do that. Yeah, so I'll go on it. Okay, we'll be doing it. I think that's everything for now. At the next select board meeting we will probably bring photographs, you know, potential photograph for the cover but for now this should take care of everything. We're gonna have to start getting some draft budgets too, pretty quick. Yeah, we have those. We could probably circulate them. The draft that we have now before anyone else sees them as early as probably maybe Monday. So everyone has a chance to review. Okay. And then we'll set up some dates to go over it. Yeah. Okay, other business. No other business. Manager's report. I have three items. Well, I had four, but thanks to Tom, now it's three. So thank you, Tom, for the notice for the grant award. Oh yeah, okay, great, thanks. One is just a conversation that's ongoing between Josh and I and he's also shared it with the board about the downtown master plan. We are going to start working on locations to seek funds either through a planning grant or through the places, the better places grant or the better connections grant to try to create a downtown master plan that includes where housing would best be located, interconnectivity of sidewalks, be able to walk on a sidewalk all throughout the village, bike lanes, things of that nature, essentially just general transportation of pedestrians and bicyclists and housing. So that's something that we have ongoing conversations. The merchants row project, if you haven't driven down Pleasant Street, the sidewalk on Pleasant Street is complete. The portion of the project on merchants row is had to be put on hold because of frost. The contractor just can't work at this point anymore because of frost conditions. So the project is going to be completed in the spring. We put Jersey Barriers up to prevent people from driving into the dug up asphalt, but it's not a major drop. It's maybe like four or five inches down. But in any case, we did put the Jersey Barriers up. But even with what little has been completed, which is sidewalk behind the barbershop and then also sidewalk on Pleasant Street closest to the intersection of Merchant Street, it already looks a million times better back there. So we're hoping to build on that in the spring. And then just the update again, reiterating what we mentioned earlier, discussed earlier about Beameville Road, which is looking to set up community meetings to let everybody know about the temporary detour route so that they're aware of what's coming down the pike and we'll include more than just Maple Street, which will include Highland Avenue as well, since that's another cut across thoroughfare. And so if any truck misses Maple Street and goes down Highland, that the residents on Highland are also aware that this could potentially be an issue on their street for two to three weeks. And that is it for now. Okay, so I think we actually have our Merchant's Road project manager on the call. So before we move off that topic, anything you wanna add to the Merchant's Road project, Mike? Sure, I apologize. I walked away for a minute and came back while Adolfo was talking about it. Willie has been doing a pretty good job. They're very communicative. They've had a few questions. They did some exploratory exercises and worked with Morgan and Chris Chambers to work out some of the issues and actually make it a more streamlined process and allowed the project to go along a little quicker. So with the late start and the kind of extended construction season, they were able to get two of the sidewalk sections done and it won't take very long for them to get the other section done and do the plantings in the spring once they're able to. Nice. So now that we've voted to give them the project on Pleasant Street, it's nice to hear. They've been very helpful. They communicate more so than any other contractor that we work with. They send photographs almost daily of their work. It's been very refreshing to see just the engagement that they've had over the last few weeks. With this winter shutdown, Emma Knot, what's that going to do to our highway crews as far as road maintenance through there? So Morgan worked with the Willie crew to ensure that the Jersey Barriers are wide enough for our plow trucks to drive through and be able to plow the snow. The barriers were put up with Morgan's approval so that he felt comfortable with the plowing and the moving of snow. They understand that it's not ideal to have Jersey Barriers up narrowing the road at this point, but under the current conditions and just the weather coming in, Morgan felt comfortable that they could actually do the plowing and do the work with the Jersey Barriers that are there now. We often have problems on, or we have problems on merchant show, often with vehicles that don't move and stay parked overnight and then we end up plowing them. So the Jersey Barriers in some ways are obstacles that were used to on that road. They're just Jersey Barriers now and not just vehicles parked overnight. Great, thanks. Thank you, Mike. Sure. If I may add one thing, Trini, I'm only slightly insulted that Mike walked away when I was speaking, but I'll get over it. Not while you were speaking. I actually left during the Grant's thing before, so. If I can add a little bit of levity to a doffle that four-inch drop-off of the asphalt that's protected, that's shallower than some of the potholes on school street. I just couldn't tell yet, so. That one's hurtful, Tom. It's hurtful. We won't compare him to a shill. Okay. Trini, can I ask one thing? Sure. Could we? We talked about it before, but it hasn't happened yet. Could we have the people from Northfield Savings Bank come in now that they've been with us for like a year and a half and tell us a little bit about the investments that they're doing for us? Oh, yeah, if the board is interested, we could certainly reach out to them and ask them to come and present and share a briefing with where we are position-wise and finance-wise. Great. So next up is executive session and we are past nine o'clock. So I'm wondering if the better way to handle this isn't for everybody to rank the candidates and send them in and we agree on the number of them that we'll interview and then do a doodle poll of availability to do the interviews. Is that a good suggestion? Yeah. Is there a cutoff on the date such that we might be getting more? This is, if you remember, Pat, we advertised it until filled. Right. So we should just be looking at these as what we have at this point. Right. And it's a sort of a rolling application process. Yeah, I think so. How do you suggest we do that rank ordering, just rank ordering, Feeney, or saying we think these four- Yeah, just go one through seven if that's what we got and then we'll put them in a spreadsheet and the ones that get the lowest score in this case will, you know, how many do we want to interview? Four? Maybe more than seven.  We got nine in the end, didn't we? I think we had seven and then another one added. Right, the eighth one came in in the second packet that Adolfo sent out. Add eight? Okay. Yeah. And there was one candidate that there was already some feedback on that they sent out to everybody too. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so if everybody could rank them and ship that off to Adolfo, say, by Tuesday, Wednesday of next week and we can get due to pull out on availability, then we can get those interviews scheduled. Sounds good. No, I'm good. And I'm guessing Adolfo, there was nothing else that was gonna go into that executive session. No, no, that was it, just to give the board time to speak about the candidates. Okay. So we'll all send you those, Adolfo ranked one through eight. And obviously, we'll take the four lowest scores, work them into interviews and do a due to pull updates when people are available. Let's see where that gets. Sounds good. Okay, thank you. That gets us pretty busy in December, right? Huh, what else? We're a third of the way through, Pat. Yeah. I didn't hear what you said. We're almost halfway through. Well, we're a third of the way through anyway. So, motion to adjourn perhaps. Seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? If you've opposed, we're gonna meet you. I might cut your tongue out, actually. I can't believe you're moving anyway, Rhett. All right, see you later. Good night, everybody. All right, thanks. Bye.


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hi guys welcome back to another youtube video thank you guys for being here and tuning in on another video so i'm filming this part on sunday i'm actually going to be uploading this vlog tonight i just wanted to film the intro to the video now because i kind of just dove right into my whole week i had a very busy week a lot of different things um which you guys will see in the vlog but i haven't really slowed down really since the pop-up and since the us open started vlogging immediately when i got home literally the day that i got home from new york i continued to vlog i felt like i hadn't really had a moment to really like sit and reflect on the past week and like everything that's happened in the past few weeks especially not sit down and talk to you guys about everything so first i just want to say thank you to anyone not only the people that came to the pop-up obviously those people will always have a special place in my heart and i know that so many people wanted to go that couldn't go and i totally understand that but i just want to thank anyone who has ever supported anything that i've done and has rooted for me and looked for the best in me and really given me a fair shot and gotten to know me social media is weird and i think it's a lot easier to try to assume the worst of people there are just so many people who continue to support me and ride for me and the past really six months but the past like few months everything's really come together the support is just so strong and it's so there and i've never been at a place in my life i'm like getting emotional even speaking about it but i've never felt like so actually supported by people and like real people like the pop-up was a really special thing for me because i felt like numbers of followers and likes and youtube views online over time can just sort of become numbers i think that that is just like the human nature of it we're always striving to reach a bigger audience we're always striving to you know in our industry reach as many people as we can and have our videos perform well and it's always like kind of looking forward to the next thing and like oh can i reach 100k subscribers on youtube or oh can i reach x amount of followers on instagram and although reaching 100k on youtube was a huge moment for me i just really feel like i'm at a point in my career where i'm so good with the supporters that i have and like you guys make it feel like i have enough and like obviously i hope that i continue to succeed and grow but feeling like content and like i have such a strong amazing following is so cool because i know just from being friends with a lot of people in the industry i don't think a lot of people feel as connected to their followers as i might and i know that that's just like such a huge blessing and i hope it's because over the years like i've put out an authentic version of myself and i've been vulnerable and i think youtube has contributed a lot to that i also think i've built sort of a community through jerryboy but whatever it is it like has made me feel amazing and it's made me feel so supported and like the amount of people that came to the pop-up just like i'll never ever forget that and no matter how hard my job gets or things get because things are gonna happen and you know i'm a human i'm gonna make mistakes and things are gonna happen i just like know that i have this like really solid group of individuals supporting me so for that i just want to thank you guys and i just had to include that in this video because i feel like i literally haven't had the second to like sit down and and think and talk about the pop-up and what that meant to me and even being an urban outfitters um my brand selling on urban outfitters in this vlog you will see that i had a meeting with urban outfitters and i um talked about the meeting a little bit i included some of the meeting but our product was the number one product on urban outfitters like for those days that they were on the site or urban outfitters called us wanting a lot more product and also to have our product in all of their 50 stores also their men's department it's insane that you guys have afforded me this opportunity to create products that i love and share them and now they're gonna be in stores which is something that i personally can't offer right now so i'm just like extremely extremely grateful i also launched camo online this week and it sold out in 30 minutes um it's just been a really crazy few months and i just feel like i said this on my instagram i grew up and i think just in my industry i always set very high standards for myself and i had a hard time feeling proud of myself doing what i'm doing and also i think that having such a strong present following also means there's the negative side of what a really strong community brings which is like a really strong negative community i don't know i haven't always been super proud of my content i haven't always been super proud of myself honestly and i just like finally am and although i am like still like how can we make it better how can we do things better and i'm just like always trying to make things the best that they can i'm trying to learn and i feel like i'm getting in a better place with myself where i'm like i can be proud of where i'm at and know where i'm going definitely like finally have taken a moment to be proud of myself and there's a lot in this vlog it's a lot of like kind of like random stuff throughout my week um i really wanted to get another home vlog in for you guys and i knew this was going to be a busy week the beginning of this vlog is me getting amanda's birthday dinner ready and that was just like really special it's crazy because monday feels like a month ago but yeah i did a little birthday dinner for amanda which you guys will see i hope you guys enjoyed this vlog and yeah just finished doing the dishes i'm gonna go to bed soon and amanda and sebi um just left i'm pretty tired we have a very long day tomorrow so gonna try to get to bed early just because like tomorrow's our first day back in the office since before the pop-up we just have like a lot to go over and the camel is launching on wednesday so just making sure everything is like squared away for that is important um gonna work tomorrow go to the barn india i will see you guys in the morning good morning vlog i just kind of got ready for the day put on this set that set active set me i think we're gonna go get a coffee go for like a little walk i want to go check out my garden see how that's doing and then and then back to like a work week i have a lot of work to do today and then i want to also go see my horse i also have a lot of gifting that i want to show you guys so at some point today we can go through some gifting i will leave the link to this set in the bio it's a really high quality and really really cute okay guys lauren and i just picked vegetable taste test that's gonna be so good do you like um you don't like tomatoes right no but i feel like i would like to give it a shot yeah give it a shot this one looks cute i'm gonna wash it okay cucumber hall yum okay cheers cheers wait it's sliding why do i like it it's really good wait i like cucumbers i'm waiting to like not like it but it's so good it's so good that's really scary okay that's fun rocked my fucking world i'm the best cucumber i've ever had okay live and i are just watching tennis and getting ready i'm all ready for tomorrow and then we're just watching some tennis we've been watching all the matches today this is definitely the most exciting match that's on to americans good morning guys alivia and i are about to go live oh it's 10 right now i'm currently fully in the camo set a thousand orders in four minutes oh my god holy shit okay guys lauren and i are about to go ride i've never tried pumpkin spiced anything hi can i please get a um iced latte with regular milk medium i don't do the words i just i hope we're just waiting you're like i'm too busy too busy and then can i get um pumpkin cold foam on top of that please and then grande latte with pumpkin cold foam i'm good she's so good wait it's so good it's a good amount of pumpkin too like it's not too pumpkining wait wait wait life change twice you're telling you this isn't all year round mm-hmm you look so cute this morning oh hi maybe bean here's the cutest are you an evil cavity oh that may know can you just give me brave it again see that big you will not see a fly on those chompers like you just won't yeah how you do that you don't you can't know nobody's so scared to keep one like i take both out my hair looks crazy i look so rusty it's giving summer horse camp no it's giving my least stupid summer so i think we need today's sugar that's so fast oh that is so refreshing that is so good okay guys i just had a quick meeting olivia's on another call right now and i just had to get ready because i'm heading into new york city so i have to attend something for fashion week but before i go i'm just making like a quick caesar salad wrap i actually made this in my last log it's really nothing crazy i use like a caesar salad kit for my caesar wraps and then i just like marinate chicken really well anyways i'm heading to a fashion week event tonight this year i got invited to which is really funny because i obviously don't live in minneton anymore um but i've got invited to more shows this year than ever to fashion week um but to be honest guys like it just doesn't really interest me very much it's not something that makes me feel good and happy you know unless it's a paid commitment um i really didn't want to attend fashion week i also just feel like i don't know i'm not like hating on anyone in my industry who wants to be a part of it or wants to go not really like a fashion girl i like style a lot i feel like it's not really like my space and it's not super me um there are some brands that i got invited to that i was like oh fuck i would actually really like to go to that and that can be really cool it's just like i would rather spend my time that i have at home and be like here with my horse and my family and yeah because you know i spend so much time on the road now because of tommy's schedule yeah like i just didn't need to go to fashion week i also just feel like it's like a little bit of icky i don't know i just don't love fashion week i never have so i'm not really gonna be participating unless i'm getting paid um so i am getting paid tonight or otherwise i would literally not be going to manhattan guys honestly i have no desire to be going to new york right now being honest with you guys like the last place i want to go right now in manhattan but it's work and that's just growing blazers and i'm very grateful to be working with such a brand i love i didn't interview last summer with growing blazers i've been wearing their stuff forever it's very like crappy but edgy which i find really really cool and then target obviously is just such an iconic cool brand but i also just realized that i've been showing barn content but i didn't explain on my youtube the changes that i've made with my barn situation so my horse and navy i moved him to a barn that's three minutes away from me it's a predominantly english barn and it's with stalls and he just like wasn't doing very well at the other barn so the other barn is like a western trail riding barn which i love but i wanted a horse that was a little bit more athletic i wanted a horse that wasn't like my horse louis is like an old old trail riding horse structure really wasn't working out for navy he just was like not really behaving super well and i wasn't feeling super safe for riding him in the trails alone because i feel like he just like wasn't comfortable with the structure anyways long story short i moved navy also my other barn is 30 minutes away from me so it's very hard for me to go every day and the traveling especially during our shower it sometimes took me like an hour and a half two hours to even like go to the barn so it's really been nice that navy is so close to me and i'm riding him more and spending more time with him he's a very young horse he's definitely gonna take love attention and working with him and i love him he's great i was actually thinking about maybe rehoming him like he wasn't a good fit for me i just think he really wasn't a good fit for that barn because i love him so much so trying out this new barn and he's been so much better and just so that makes me super super happy because i really didn't want to have to sell him um but that happens in the horse world which like a lot of people don't really know about can get a horse and it's not a good fit and then you sell it and that's just like how it goes sometimes it's obviously like not less sad it's still sad but yeah so that's the update with navy and that's why in this video i've been at a new barn situation but i'm gonna run into the city now and then i will show you guys the event and then i'm gonna come home and yeah left the event it went to Mcblazers and i've known him for a few years so it was really cool to also see him and support him partnership um supporting the brand is so nice because i know him and i've known him for years and to tell him that i was proud of him event this was a much bigger scale event than mine but anyone coming out to support um means a lot so i was really glad that i could be there for that reason too my favorite steak sandwich so i'm gonna run to the market right now also i'm wearing a dairy boy little sweatshirt it was from the pop-up but we're gonna add like some of the stuff online because i hate that some of you guys missed out on that but um i'm gonna run to the market i saw this recipe on tiktok i wasn't really hungry and then i saw this recipe on tiktok for this soup and guys like i love soup i'm a soup girl and i haven't made soup in a while it also was like 100 degrees today but i still really want to make this soup that i saw on tiktok so i thought i would bring you guys to the market with me and then i can make the soup and and show you guys because i have not been doing much cooking content because i've been like so fucking busy but yeah let's do it i also need to call tommy i've been so bad about texting tommy did send me the cutest flower bouquet today with this like balloon it was like this smiley balloon he's so cute um tommy sends me so many flowers i'm so lucky he's just like the best boyfriend ever oh okay i'm gonna go to the market i was thinking about this today guys i don't really believe in karma the reason i say that is because i feel like some really horrible people can get away with being really horrible for a really long time and sometimes things can happen to them and then sometimes things don't happen to them like i don't think karma has always served but then again i'm like maybe it is because anyone who is a bad person or does bad things is probably just like fucking miserable all the time also guys i'm looking for a really really specific sort of pasta right now and i'm really scared that they don't have it but in my life like in general people who have been just like horrible to me always like had stuff happen to them that i always think is like hmm is that karma or is that just like life catching up with them my thought of the night hell yeah exactly what we were looking for anyways back to what i was saying like i feel like things have happened to me where i'm like what the fuck that being said everything that's happened to me in my life or like any bad thing or anything that was hard for me like has led me to where i am now which is an amazing place like i have an amazing life an amazing boyfriend so like now at looking back i can be like oh well everything i went through is worth it and everything i went through bad and good led me to where i am now so you can say that about anything bad that happens to you in your life but when i see bad things happen to really bad people i don't know if it's karma i just think it's like a result of life catching up to them i don't know i was gonna get a lot more things while i was here and i completely forgot about most of the things that i was gonna get but guys i don't know if anyone else likes grits but i'm like obsessed with grits it's like this system is closed good okay trying again anyways grits welcome if you are a scannet customer please scan the barcode on your scanner or scan it mobile device 459209 one 99 okay bag has been secured i am so excited to make this soup guy he was supposed to want it to pop up on sunday it's sold out in like five minutes yeah what's the fuss it has matching sweatpants too yeah what the fuck no it's sold out say hi to the vlog okay so you just put these veggies in chicken broth and a whole onion i love onions that's good and then you let these boil and like get really soft and then you remove them the vegetables and blend them into like a veggie sauce and then you add it back to the soup and then you add the noodles okay this has been boiling for a bit i added a chicken breast just for flavor i'm not sure if i'm gonna add it to the actual soup yet i might just shred it and put it in the fridge for like salad or something but this is just sitting i'm gonna let it sit for longer but you just want the veggies to like soak into the broth and get really soft okay next i'm just gonna take these veggies out and put them into my blender okay i'm pouring this back in and then i'm just gonna add these little noodles okay guys i'm just watching tennis right now us open is still going on it is the semi finals i'm watching koko who is my favorite i honestly have so much respect for everyone who plays tennis and there are a lot of really amazing american tennis players um who i've enjoyed following but i love rooting for koko i think she's so cool she's also just like a really really nice girl super down to earth very humble i yeah i'm just a i'm a big fan i really love rooting for her and she is about to win in the semi finals which means she'll make it to the finals which means she'll have a chance of winning that would be insane i would literally be so fucking happy for her so fingers crossed that she wins would also be really cool for america i'm always rooting for the americans um i'm so happy when any of the american players guys or girls do well i was supposed to go to a d or beauty event tonight guys and that was the only other fashion week thing i was going to go to i ended up not going i really wanted to go to support the brand because i really love the brand but i'm so glad honestly that i've stayed home i'm watching a lot of like fashion week stories i'm so good watching from home i'm happy for the people that are having fun and like getting dressed up and having fun at fashion week because i know it's really fun and exciting for a lot of people my soup is done guys it literally is so fucking good it's like these little star noodles and this like really flavorful broth also it's really good with cheese good morning vlog thought i would bring you guys along with me so i'm gonna go run and do some errands right now i shot most of my content yesterday so i didn't have to shoot anything today ad-wise so that's really nice we have a bunch of people here working today just on dairy boy stuff we've been having meetings all morning i think we have one meeting with urban today and then that's it for the day so yeah okay i think Olivia and i are actually now i'm gonna hop on the call with urban do not be a see it so loud we're working really hard on getting up a pre-order for the camo that sold out it literally sold out in like 30 ish minutes um all of our units and we had a lot so we're working on a pre-order so um i just really want everyone to be able to get them okay i just got approved to go live with my ad for dsw so i'm gonna pop that how are you how are you guys we're good you're busy yeah very busy but it's all good things that's awesome yeah uh well obviously our management was super excited they move him down to this barn during the day because it gets too hot in his barn up top hi bean it's about to storm hi sweet bean hi sweet boy hi sweet boy too blind good morning guys we're about to go to starbucks amanda has never tried the pumpkin anything i mean he's never tried the pumpkin anything but that was literally me at the beginning of this vlog i went to Starbucks with Lauren and tried the pumpkin for the first time so take two what's your reasoning for never trying any of the pumpkin flavored anything i'm not like a pumpkin gal you're not like i like like pumpkin cookies and like so then why are you a pumpkin yeah i don't know you're not a pumpkin drink gal i mean i wasn't there i think i just always thought it would taste like shit yeah same like why why is there pumpkin in my drink yeah like leave it in the muffin but i was so fucking wrong excited i'll just get what you get uh i wonder if they have like pumpkin loaves oh they do oh they do they have a fucking bomb pumpkin love okay need that warmed up yeah but amanda and i wanted to go to pop up bagels i don't know if you guys have heard of it vlog alert i'm doing a tiktok vlog like oh you are you guys don't go subscribe to amanda you're fake literally you're literally so fake one like guys i literally have been harassing amanda to start a youtube channel well i bought a camera hi can i please get a latte an iced latte with regular milk and sweet pumpkin cold foam medium please anything else can i get two of those and then the two pumpkin loaves four yes please anything that's it thanks i made for the order oh page cheers cheers right i always imagined it like tasting like a janky sort of pumpkin yeah no it tastes like fine it tastes like real pumpkin like they literally look like it's too sick though okay timber pumpkin loaves i'm ready for a fall like kind of what they're dropped i know i said so good hey guys they thought page her name was queen did you hear me say queen guys they thought you're queen i don't know why i think that's so funny


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A portion of the city of Bemidji is recovering today after a tornado touchdown on the morning of the 4th of July. Reporter Cheryl Moore has the latest on the damage. I was scared and stuff. I thought something happened to my husband, Mike and stuff and when I came home, I just got out of the car and started crying. But Trauma County Emergency Management has now confirmed it was an EF-1 tornado with winds from 90 to 100 miles per hour that hit yesterday morning at around 6.30. The tornado was exactly 20 yards wide. Tornado sirens did not go off yesterday because the high winds did not meet the criteria for activation. Obviously right here in the heart of Bemidji, it's kind of rare to get this concentrated damage. Some say they were just starting their normal routine when the tornado hit. I was in the kitchen in the house and probably about 6.30, it sounded like a freight train heading through my house. I didn't know whether to run, duck or hide. Officials at St. Bartholomew's Church, which sits on the corner where the tornado hit, says they were alerted about the storm through social media. Luckily there was no major structural damage to the church, only some roof damage and a broken window. I was up on Facebook with people and watching the radar and just kind of saw it happen in live time that people were posting pictures and I'm like, that's our neighborhood, that's St. Bartholomew's. So as a church administrator I started gathering photos and alerting people. From uprooted trees to debris left all over the roads, the messed the tornado left will take a little while to clean up, although luckily even a day later we're still not hearing any reports of injuries. If it wasn't for friends, I don't think I would have survived this one because I was pretty devastated yesterday morning. Today, neighbors were helping neighbors with cleanup duty. And they are also bringing the first responders for their help in the aftermath. The city was super fast on their part of the cleanup, the street trees. I still have bad dreams about it and stuff. And I feel sorry for the other people that have to clean up their yard and stuff. Appointing of a midget, Sheryl Moore, Lakeland News. And again, fortunately no injuries reported as a result of that tornado. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Hey everybody it's Greg back to here and in this video I'm going to show you how to retouch skin in Adobe Photoshop using the frequency separation technique. All right let's get started. All right so the first thing we want to do is we want to duplicate our original background layer. So here we are on the background layer. Now the shortcut, the keyboard shortcut for this on the Mac is command J twice. On the PC it's control J. So now if you look you can see we have two additional copies. We're going to call this one low and we're going to call the one above that high. Now I suggest you watch this in full screen in HD. If I'm going too fast just go back and watch the clips again. Now we're going to start with the low layer. Now how this works is it allows us to separate the color information and the texture of the skin. So that's how this works. So we're going to start on the low layer. We're going to unclick the eyeball there. Make sure you're clicked on low. Now we're going to come up to filter and we're going to blur this. So we're going to go to blur, Gaussian blur and we're going to click on a blur radius. So you can see here we're on 25. If you want to look at say the area between the lips and the skin I think 25 is maybe a little too much. Let's take it down to about 10 and let's look at that. So what we're looking for you can see here if I have this little square box if we go to various areas on the skin and click we can see if there's texture in those areas. So I think a radius of 10 pixels works on this image. This was shot on the Nikon DA10 with the 85mm the 1.4G lens and this is a 16-bit image. It went from raw so it's a 16-bit. So the Gaussian blur radius we're going to choose is 10. Now the next step is to go up to the high layer. So we're going to click on that. Now once you're in the high layer you go up to image, apply image. Now this is going to change if you're working on a 16-bit or an 8-bit. This is the formula for 16-bit images. Now we go to layer, we go to low which is the one we created that's below this one. We go to blending mode of add you can see there. Now if you were going to do an 8-bit you would choose subtract instead of add there and instead of the 2 and the 0 you would have 2 and 128. That's for 8-bit this is for 16-bit. So it's low blending mode of add scale 2 offset 0 invert. Now when I say okay it looks like a high pass filter type image. So now we want to go back to the high layer on the right we want to go to the blending mode and we want to change that to linear light. Now you can see that it looks like a regular image. Now the next step is to group these so we can toggle in on and off to see if our changes are working. Now in order to do that if you click on the low and the high with the shift applied now we can use a shortcut command G or control G on the PC. We'll just call this FS. So what we've done is we've created the low layer the high layer we've applied the Gaussian blur to the low we've done the apply image technique to the high and now we've separated the skin texture and the color so different on each layer. Now the advantages of this is now that we can use the healing brush to clean up blemishes and we won't be dragging color into those areas and then we can deal with just the color area separately. So let's start with doing some healing first. So I'm going to zoom in command plus or control plus and your keyboard will allow you to do that. Now you can see we have some stray hairs on the forehead. We have a couple blemishes there and we're going to be working on the high layer. So if we come up over here to the healing brush you can see healing brush tool and what we want to do is sample nearby texture and now we're not worried about dragging color in. So we're going to just hold the option key or the alt key and we're going to sample. Now one thing you want to be clear about here is if you go over to the left hand side and you see there's a little eyedropper tool above the healing brush right there the eyedropper tool when you click on that you'll see a sample here. You'll see point sample three by three five by five eleven by eleven. Check to see that you're around five point five for your sample and that's going to sample nearby area. Now again clicking on the healing brush we're going to sample nearby using the option key or the alt key and we're just going to click here and then we're going to paint over and so this will allow us to not drag colors because you'll find sometimes if you use this and you're near say a hairline and you're trying to clean up hairs it'll often take that color and drag it in and then it becomes a bit of a problem. So you can see here I'll just go quickly through this. I prefer the healing brush over the spot healing brush for this type of thing. It just does a better job because it allows you to choose the sample point instead of Photoshop. At least that's how I feel about it although some people probably prefer the spot healing brush because it is a little quicker in some cases. So I'm just sampling nearby with the option key or the alt key on the PC and then I'm just painting over and I'm just cleaning things up. So I'll show you how we're progressing on this and then I'll show you how we can work on the color layer separately. Now also to be conscious of the color areas and the areas of texture that you're sampling as well those are important things to consider while you're doing this and you know it's going to take a bit of time. This isn't a fast technique. This isn't you know a plugin that you just apply and have perfect skin but this is a I guess you could say a very detailed and accurate way of preserving the skin and the color from the original image but allowing you to clean up the image and make the skin look a little more professional pro looking skin image if that makes any sense. All right so I'm just going to keep cleaning this up and then I'll show you what this looks like. So again this is just the healing brush and I'm just sampling so I sample nearby and then I just paint over and then if you find you don't like what you did there you can always just tweak it just look for a cleaner area of the skin as you sample and I'll just keep going here just a little bit just get this a little more refined and then I'll just sort of show you here. So we can just toggle this group on and off and now you can see that I've cleaned up the hairs and some blemishes and you can go as far as you want on this. Now the next part is going to allow us to blend some of the light and dark areas for a smoother transition so that was the high layer we were working on the blemishes and removing hairs and things like that like for example here and if we came down here you can see we have a little bit of a hair there we have a little bit of a mark there so that's a good technique for that but sometimes you want to just sort of even out the skin area you want to even out the lighting on the skin to make it look a little more smooth because sometimes if you're you know shooting in natural light or your flash is very harsh you're going to have bright and dark areas and it may appear to be a little blotchy so what we're going to do is we're going to click on the low layer now one thing too I want to show you is we're going to go up to the lasso tool here the lasso tool look in the box that says feather this might vary slightly but we want to feather the edges here so I have it set to 25 pixels and now what we're going to do is we're going to take an area of say light to dark and we're going to smooth out that transition area so you can see here above her left eye or her right eye but it looks left us see how we have this bright area above the eye now what we're going to do is we're just going to sample some of this area with the lasso tool and we're going to use it to blend that transition from light to dark to smooth out that area now to do that we can come up to filter and we can go blur Gaussian blur now when we have this up we can drag this slider for example to see how this is going to look so you can see here we have this area sampled and it's going to blur and create more of a transition now we can drag this up as much as we want but if we go too far what'll happen is the edges you'll see get a little dark so we don't want to go that far but if we go too low then nothing will happen so I suggest starting around maybe 25 or radius of 25 pixels we're going to click ok now to deselect that area I click command D now let's just toggle this on and off so we've got our group here and let's just look at this area above the eye and you can see that we've got our hairs that are cleaned up and it's smoothed out some of that transition so I'll show you a couple more examples so you get a better idea of how that works so we'll go to the cheek area here click on the low layer you can see we have that highlight on her cheek and then we have that darker area now we don't want to get rid of the highlight entirely but we want that to be a smoother transition so what we can do is we can just sample that area the lasso tool go up and now that we've chosen our radius all we have to do is click on that again and that'll apply our 25 pixels there so I'll do it in a couple places and then you'll probably see a better idea now this is a very subtle technique Gaussian blur now you can see that was a little more effective in that area now we could take that here again here on the cheek and so we're really just going around and we're just smoothing those transitions from dark to light so for example here we could do that as well on the top of this highlight now this isn't going to work if you get too close to say a dark color like an eyebrow so be conscious of where you're doing this now command D to deselect now if I toggle on and off look at her cheekbone look at the highlight above look at the shadow below and just watch how that sort of has a smoother softer transition so looking there I'll zoom in so you can see it right here now if I click on and off you could see it it's just sort of smoothed out that shadow detail just sort of made a smoother transition so you would use these two techniques in combination so clearing blemishes stray hairs on the high layer and then smoothing out some color toning on the low layer now an advanced technique is you can create a layer between the low and the high so you come down here and create a new layer now this will allow you to sample color and brightness and bring that into a darker layer I'll say that for another video that's a little bit more complicated but basically use this technique to separate the texture from the color so that's the basis of that now let me go through it one more time to recap how to set this up so we'll just get rid of this entirely you've got your background layer for example we're going to duplicate that command j twice or control j we'll just label it we'll call this low keeping in mind this is a 16-bit image and so we have our low and our high we're just going to uncheck that eyeball we're on the low we're going to go filter we're going to go blur Gaussian blur and then we have that blur radius we were just using recently we'll go near the lips so we can see that I think something like 10 is probably fine for this image it might vary slightly depending on how this was shot now we'll go back up to the high layer we go up to image we go up to apply image it's a 16 bit so the formula is layer low blending mode add scale to offset zero invert checked okay then we go to the blend mode here on the high layer we choose linear light now we have our frequency separation we're going to group that we're going to hold the shift key make sure that both of these are highlighted command g on the mac or control g we can call our group whatever we want i'll call it fs and then that's how you create your frequency separation and then you have the low color layer the high texture layer the high layer you can use the healing brush the clone stamp tool low layer you can use that technique with the lasso tool and you can just sort of blur transitions if you want to get really advanced you can create a layer between the two and you can use your brush key and you can sample areas and then blend them into other areas but be very careful when you start messing around with highlights and shadows you can really change the shape of someone's face like I said that's a little 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