When I was home visiting my folks this past Spring, my Mom passed along to me a folder she’d uncovered with my old elementary school pictures. I didn’t have time then to do more than scan them, but I stashed them away with the intent of doing a little “morph” work some day.
Alas, thanks to a small pocket of nostalgia-driven free time this past holiday weekend, I ponied up for the standard version of Morpheus Photo Morpher. It’s a handy app, very easy to grasp and use interface to create simple, straight-forward morphs; unfortunately, many of the refining features are locked in the higher-end Pro version (which I have yet to pony-up for; we’ll see what the new year’s economy brings).
The one major thing I fault the company for is that though you can download a trial version, strangely this preview allows you to export the finished product to Quicktime, once you pay for the standard version you find that this functionality is not available at that level, but rather you must purchase the Pro version – a difference between $30 and $60 (note to self: read the fine print on the website first, genius; but to be fair, I really shouldn’t have to – why would their preview contain functionality that would not be unlocked if one purchased a key?).
So, here is my first “test run” at a morph of c’est moi, circa 1972 to 2008…
[Quicktime movie, 6.9MB]
(the initial export to animated GIF and then QT yielded a file that won’t downsize properly for iPod/email/web porting; I’m working on it, and will post a slimmer version soon – s.m.)
Addendum: until I fix the Quicktime issues, below is a Flash version…
Monty through the ages – flash
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