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I did some playing with creating an animated gif. There are many sites online that will allow you to create them so I didn't try to make one myself. All the sites have different rules like file size less than 2 MB, 30 photo max, etc.  I'm hoping sharing this works.

I was going to use my random side profile pictures but gifmaker has a max of 30 images. I'm not even sure they are in the correct order.  It would have been nicer if I cropped everything the same size. Maybe I will go back once I figure out a good way to do it.  I do have versions of the pictures with the week and date; that would have probably helped me know the correct order.

I'm not a big fan of the photo quality now. I could have probably chosen the weekly photos that only go to my knee. The one picture where I'm in a white shirt is too tall/skinny and throws everything off. The worst part is I have a version of the picture right beside that one in the folder that is wider. After you pick your photos you can't swap them out so I just left it.

Have you ever made your own animated gif? How did you do it?

I'm actually quite distracted by the animation that it's even hard to type this text so I apologize if you are trying to read it and are distracted.

I made a second one with the pictures that only go to my knee but most of those had a file size that was too large.  I put that one at the bottom anyway even though only half the pictures are there.

I feel like my work is cut out for me tomorrow. I'm going to recrop some pictures to make them a consistent width and height. I also should find another site to make gifs so I don't have to resize the photos. I used to use photoshop to resize photos but I don't have that installed so I'm not sure what method I should use to shrink down the pictures to get more to show up in the animations.  I should poke around more too to find one that allows more than 30 photos so I can just do my random side profile pictures from throughout pregnancy.