march siggy challenge

kimbo1216 · February 2014

yes. I know it's early, and I realize I'm never the one to post these, but I had a proposal that will be a bit more of a challenge and may take a little extra time and planning...

I think we should take our gif'ing skills to the next level and make our March Siggy Challenge, home-made gifs of our LOs.

I know there is software out there you can download to make gifs. I haven't researched it yet, but I was thinking about it and thought I'd throw it out there.

If you can't/don't want to do a gif, then you could complete the challenge with your LO is picture form (I know, practically archaic

)

What say you?

ETA: Just googled and I found this. https://makeagif.com/video-to-gif/ Not sure if it's good or not. But it's something

Jalee85 · February 2014

Chrisanna0508 · February 2014

That sounds awesome, but I would have no idea how to make a gif

Maybe someone can figure it out and let those of us (me!) who are dumb about technology know how?

kimbo1216 · February 2014

Here's this:

https://makeagif.com/video-to-gif/

tashad18 · February 2014

If you can find me a gif for dummies tutorial I'm up for it!

trackgirlparis · February 2014

Love this idea!

taylormarie923 · February 2014

Love this idea! Do we want to come up with a theme/action?

deedee1017 · February 2014

I'm a weirdo who doesn't post pictures of my LO on any site, ever. I'm paranoid of the crazies out there. Does that make me a crazy?

Jalee85 · February 2014

Yay I got it to work using Google+

Jalee85 · February 2014

Hmmm I can make the GIF but the link is broke on here. I've tried 2 sites already.

Jalee85 · February 2014

Seriously need to work on sizing!

Chrisanna0508 · February 2014

@jalee85 Can you tell the rest of us how you got it to work? Never used google+?

Jalee85 · February 2014

@chrisanna0508

You have to have an account on Google+. If you have the phone app it will automatically download any pictures you take and save them there. It will also save pictures of your computer too. If you take 6 or more pictures in sequence they will automatically put them together and turn it into an animated gif. Then you just view the gif and copy the link and insert it into the image button, or use the code to get it in. However the GIF is huge and I'm not sure how to fix that.

TXswissmiss · February 2014

taylormarie923 said:
Love this idea! Do we want to come up with a theme/action?

I second this!!!!!

hartsl01 · February 2014

I've got lots of gifs of lo from Google+ but ic can't upload anything from my phone. I'll have to try on my computer.

hartsl01 · February 2014

Ok, since an edit won't let me attach a file... Hopefully this works.

ETA: @Jalee85 where do you get the link to copy from? I can see them moving fine on Google+ but cannot find a link to attach into here. This one I uploaded from my computer but it only moves the one time.

deedee1017 · February 2014

Didn't someone make a post about this a while ago and everyone responded saying how creepy it was?

hartsl01 · February 2014

So... If the gif thing falls thru, I'm gonna throw out 'favorite beaches' as a suggestion since the weather sucks for the majority of us.

Jalee85 · February 2014

@hartsl01 I had to try it from my computer. There you can right click it... Click view image- then on the page that pops up that is the link you can use.

huntjul · February 2014

I read the title of this thread and thought, come on Kimbo, it's barely halfway through the month! But I get it now. Sounds cool. We'll see who is tech savvy enough to pull it off. I'd say 50/50 chance here.

kimbo1216 · February 2014

ElleStaxx said:

Have tried 1000 times to put a plain old pic in siggy and still can't. And I'm mobile 99.9% of time. Can't see anyone's siggys.

@ellestaxx, have you tried it on a computer using the tutorial I linked in the o13 Moms stuff sticky?

kimbo1216 · February 2014

TXswissmiss said:

Love this idea! Do we want to come up with a theme/action?
I second this!!!!!

This was my thinking. and if people can't figure out how to gif, they could always do a picture of LO doing the action/in the theme.

Like March could be "lucky babies" (in honor of St. patty's day) and baby could be dressed in green, or jumping in green or something better than that. I'm really not creative enough but would go with whatever challenge everyone agreed on.

vargasgurl · February 2014

I just figured out how to do regular gifs ... So I'm sticking w that for now! I'm an old fart

muffyvonmuff · February 2014

Ok I did this quick to try and see how hard it was. It was very easy from the 1st site @kimbo1216 listed but I don't know how to flip it. I gave Hudson some oatmeal earlier for fun. He ate nothing and it was very messy. But he did enjoy trying to get the spoon in his mouth. I'll have to work on taking some funnier videos of him.

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