Turning a GIF into a FIG

I know what you may be thinking, but these are not trick birthday candles!  This FIG is a labor of love and exasperation!  Yesterday, I had already designated this assignment as a piece of “cake” (groan), but it was one of my most challenging so far.  Although boasting of its reverse GIF option, the GIPHY app would not process my GIF properly when I uploaded it, even when I ensured that the movie file was within their size specifications.  So, after some experimentation and Googling to no avail, I eventually downloaded the ImgPlay app hours later.   ImgPlay allowed me to upload a GIF with the reverse action.  However, it was not that easy…the application did not provide a url to embed inside of WordPress.  It only offered to share the GIF via different social media platforms.  So I saved the GIF that ImgPlay had processed on my laptop,  then ran it through GIPHY in order to obtain the url to imbed.

I was hoping to add a bit more footage in the video showing Cara blowing out all of the candles, but due to file size, I resorted to a shortened version.  I thought it the whole effect looked really neat, as if she was blowing fire and lighting the candles.

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