Creative Fun For The Non-Creative

All you have to do is look at my websites and blogs to realize that I don’t have any graphic design talent. Whether we’re talking about pencil and paper or digital, I’m severely lacking in that creative aspect. I’m not complaining or feeling sorry for myself; I’ve learned to accept that and focus on my strengths. It’s just that when I find a piece of software that turns something that appears so very difficult into something really easy, I get really excited. Like now. And since I’m going to tell you about this software, you should keep in mind my low aptitude for these things.

It took me less than three minutes to download and install Morpheus Photo-Morpher on my Windows Vista machine. The software opened, I selected “New Morph Layout” and I was presented with a screen asking for two photos to be morphed together. That was pretty easy to understand but that was also the hard part. What two pictures should I morph together? I skimmed through my pictures folder and saw my son, Boomer, with a mohawk. That’s it! I’d morph Boomer!

After I added his long, curly hair before picture and his mohawk after picture, I clicked continued reading the step by step instructions. I selected the “add dots” tool to add a dots or points to the original picture. The software automatically placed a corresponding dot on the second the picture. If the corresponding dot was not positioned properly, I just clicked on the “move dot” tool and placed it where I wanted. I kept adding dots until I thought I had all of the vital points marked. And then I clicked Preview.

Oh, WOW! Seriously, I never thought I could actually morph two photos like that. I keep looking at it and I’m still amazed. I really did this. All told, including the time it took me to look through the help file to learn how to render my newly created morphed image to a file, I completed this in under 20 minutes. Not bad for someone who is afraid of graphics software!

So, what do you think? (Click the play button.)

Not bad, huh? I had so much fun playing with this that I want to morph all kinds of pictures now. I was thinking, everyone says how my kids all look so different and yet they look alike. What if I morphed my kids with each other? Or how about if I morphed each of their baby pictures into their “now” pictures. wouldn’t that be cool? Can you think of fun and creative ways to use Morpheus? Why don’t you give it a try then come back here and let me know what you did with it? I’d love to hear if you liked it as much as I do!

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