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Morphing Pictures and Animated GIF's
By Don Toivola of Morphdude.com
Lately I have been dealing in graphics and using various software such as FantaMorph to produce custom Morph pictures, also known as animated GIF files. This is the same technology that you see in some of todays movies. The basics of morphing involve loading up two images. The first image is the pre picture, and the last image is the morph picture. The idea is to morph the first picture into the second picture by placing dots on specific features of both pictures. For example. If you are morphing a picture of yourself into your favorite celebrity you will have to 'line up the features', including eyes, nose, mouth, chin, hair, and facial structure. Once you place a dot on the pre picture, a corresponding dot is place on the morph picture. So if you place a dot on the left eye of the pre picture, a dot will appear on the morph picture. You will then have to adjust that dot and place it on the left eye of the morph picture. That way the left eye on each picture will line up during the morph. You do this with every feature on the picture. There are certain types of pictures that are easier to morph than others. Profile pictures usually turn out to be the easiest to work on and are the best kind of pictures to start out on. The Process: Once you have placed enough dots to cover all of the features it is then time to apply the morph. There are some settings that need to be taken into consideration before applying the morph. Choosing a proper frame rate (frames per second) will set the speed, quality and size of the morph. -Remember that the more frames in a picture, the higher the quality will be. I usually go with 30-35 frames per second. The human eye usually cannot see more than 30 frames per second so this is a real safe frame rate to choose. -Once you choose the frame rate, you can then select the time rate. The time will be the determining factor of how many frames are in your morph, and how fast your morph will progress. So if you choose a frame rate of 30 frames per second at a speed of 2 seconds. Your morph will include 60 frames and will be two seconds long. The file size is affected by how many frames are in the morph. So if your morph was 30 frames per second at a speed of two seconds long, it would be the same file size as a morph with 60 frames per second at a speed of 1 second long. I hope you found this information usefull as to how the morphing process works. I tried to upload a sample, but was unable to upload a GIF. There are various sources out there of sample morphs online. |
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