The GIF That Took Some Getting

Spent a lot of today working on some fun creative stuff. 

I did a bunch of photography in the morning, for two main purposes, neither of which I can reveal just now, but both projects are seasonal themed, and very different from each other.

This evening, I did a bunch of fun editing on the second batch of photos I took. I use Procreate on my iPad to do all my drawing, and it works okay as a photo editor. Unfortunately, I actually discovered a bug in Procreate this evening while working. I was trying to make a nice, simple, animated GIF. When I saved it at full resolution, it worked fine, but was far too big to do very much with, including sending via Whatsapp or posting to Twitter...the two platforms I wanted the GIF for. 

In order to back my way around it, I had to save the animation as a 4 second MP4 and send it to my phone. From there, I had to send it by Whatsapp to my wife's phone but instead of sending the video, choose to send it as a GIF and let Whatsapp convert it. Once my wife's phone had it, I send it back to my phone and saved the GIF to my photostream. 

And that's how I created a stupid GIF of a silly gag that no one else will care about, but makes me smile. You might see it on my Twitter feed on Tuesday morning. It might make you smile too.