Wow! I was given the opportunity to try a new photo morphing software earlier today and I must say I really enjoyed playing around with this software!
I went to the Zoombli website and downloaded a copy of their Morpheus Photo-Morpher application. I know a few other bloggers who have started using this software to morph photos from one thing into another and I thought it was about time I try it out myself.
The software was very easy to install. Once installed the program opened up right away. There were instructions on how to use the software properly in the right side of the Photo-Morpher application so it was easy to follow the directions to create my own photo morph.
As you are editing your photo morph you be able to view a time line window so that you can see every frame, just like when you are editing a movie or video file.
As you know I love taking photographs of the flowers in my garden. So I went searching through my photos and found a beautiful photo a perfect Graham Thomas English rose bud. I then found a lovely photo of this rose fully open. I thought it would be neat to see how the program morphed the two photos from bud to fully open flower.
Hey I might use this on my gardening blog! It would be very useful to show people the different stages a plant goes through as it grows.
I’m sure you could come up with hundreds of things to morph – perhaps a baby photo of your child to how they look right now?
The program renders the morphs in a variety of formats including flash. I chose to render my morph into an avi so that I could upload it to YouTube.
This is my bud to full blooming Graham Thomas English rose:
The full standard version of this software only costs $29.95 and there’s also a Pro version that will allow you to to have even more features than you already do with the Standard version. Check out the software for yourself. I’m sure you could think of all kinds of cool things to morph. Hey a morphed photo might even make an interesting present for someone you love.
I thought the Morpheus program would be good for gardeners as well.
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It’s neat, but it seems like it’s just doing what Adobe ImageReady and Flash have been doing for years. At least in the AVI format it looks less like it’s morphing and more like a fade. I don’t know if it’s the quality of the video that makes it look like that, or the two photos. I’m sure that if you use more than two photos it would be a smoother look, and not just a fade.