Magic Morph is a program to smoothly transform images one into another. 15 minutes and a cat is turning into a dog, Big Ben – into the Kremlin, a frog – into a princess, your boss – into a frog.

Magic Morph works with JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, ICO, TGA, PCX, WBMP, WMF, J2K, JBG file formats. A source and a target images can be of different formats, but, perhaps, it would be advisable to start experimenting with objects of approximately the same size.

At the program start we are offered a video tutorial step-by-step illustrating the process of metamorphosis. The tutorial's strong point: the cursor moves slowly and we can easily follow it. An obvious weak side is that it's as silent as a fish: no comments, tips, pieces of advice. Nevertheless, it gives the first understanding of how it works and what to do.

The picture to the left is a source image, in the middle – a target one, and to the right – a morph image. The result will be a movie changing this respectable animal into the punk rebel. The task is to set up a correspondence between definite points of two images. Plainer speaking, to make an ear turn into an ear, and an eye into an eye.

To do this, leftwards, there are some tools to add control points in source and target images in turn, or simultaneously, move and delete them. That's it. To choose points more precisely, there provided a Magnifier Glass. The more points and the more accurately they are determined, the more qualitative movie you'll get.

The next step is to produce animation. What is, actually, not difficult: just to define some characteristics. Fast and fun!

All projects can be saved, and you can return to their enhancement at any time.

So, to transform images one into another seems an easy matter. Quite another problem is to transform it smoothly. Most likely, your first experiments in specific effects won't be nominated for Oscar. You'll get a "raw" movie, a movie with noise and a lot to improve and polish.

Assuming you'd like to proceed and learn to use advanced option and features, you are welcome to employ a trial-and-error method. Control Points Coordinate is on the left, Advanced Parameters – to the right. The Help section doesn't provide any information on them.

Actually, there are no tips on how to get an optimal quality. No advice what size correlation of pictures should be; how and what for to crop and resize a morph image; if there is any interdependence between the number of points, pictures' sizes and the number of output frames.

But if you don't mind a "guess what" game, you might get some pleasure exploring additional options (though not numerous) and producing better funny pieces.

Magic Morph is obviously worth trying. I wouldn't say it's the most powerful tool I've ever seen, but surely a very easy-to-use and providing rather good outcome.

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