Morphing Madness
398 words eaten alive on October 27, 2007 - Filed Under computers, Fun -
Morphing pictures can be pretty fun. Turn a toaster into a microwave or one person into another person. The Morpheus Photo-Morpher software is very easy to use although I’ve heard a few people say they just couldn’t get the hang of it. I’ve decided to do a little tutorial here on how it works.
After installing the software, you are prompted to choose 2 pictures. They don’t need to be the same size or shape but the end result will probably look better if you match them as close as possible. I’ve used my daughter as my test subject >:)
Once you have your pictures loaded, it’s time to start adding dots to the image on the left. The more dots you put the smoother the animation will look when you’re finished. I recommend adding dots to any angle or point of interest. Both corners of each eye, 3 or 4 for the nose, mouth ears, a few around the head, and so on. Take note that the corresponding dots in the right side are a big jumble for now.
After you’ve finished adding dots to the left image, it’s time to move the dots on the right image so that they match up with the left image. When you click a dot on the right, it highlights the matching dot on the left so that if you grab the middle nose dot, you can move it to be on the middle of the nose in the second picture.
After you’re done with getting the dots in the right spots, it’s time to set the options. From this screen you can set how long the morph will last, I chose 5 seconds. You can also set how long the starting and ending images will display, I put in 8 frames (.53 seconds) for each image.
Now that you’re all set, click on File and then Export Timeline. Give the morph a name and then you will be prompted to choose a compression format. Either uncompressed or DivX are my preferred formats, and since I’m uploading to YouTube I left it as uncompressed. This can result in a very large file though. My 5 second morph is nearly 18mb in size. Choose DivX to get a smaller file that retains good quality.
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