Morping as you mean it is used in film to transform an object into another (IIRC, it was first used in "Willow") see: <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphing>
I don’t think PS does that (unless there’s a plug in somewhere), there are morphing softwares out there. Try googling.
Replacing faces would be called compositing.
I agree with Cybernetic Nomad in that Photoshop does not do that.
Perhaps it could be done but not without a lot of elbow grease and painting knowledge, as far as I know.
Jackie,
Can you come up with an example of what you want to do, and post it here as a link?
I wish I could post an example, but as I can’t do it, I can’t post it!
Let me try to describe:
On the left hand side of the picture is a tractor, on the right hand side a sports car.
across the middle of the picture you can see the pases of morphing (or "cloning" perhaps, where the tractor has been progressively transformed into the sports car.
Does that make sense?
Find a morphing application similar to the one I used for the QT movie I made. If you visited the page I linked to, you may have read the the app I used was free. I’m just going to guess that there should be a similar free app for Windows.
With it, you could certainly output however many steps of transitional images as you want. You’d have to then take those images and composite them together into one Photoshop image, but it can be done. That’s how I’d approach it.
With Corel Painter, you can clone or paint an image from one state to another and save out the script. Later, the script is played back and recreates the entire process and is saved as a QT.movie.
Jeremy Sutton paints portraits to show the process of painting with his saved out scripts. It’s used as a teaching aid. I’ve seen them on used on Tele to show aging processes.
It’s not like blending a vector shape or a photographic process for that matter. You have to create the change yourself and record it in a script.
Hi Jackie,
wrote:
Is what I want to do actually possible with photos rather than vectors, and if so how? I understand I may not be using the correct terminology here as "morph" seems to mean replacing faces rather than transforming one object into another.
Check out
http://morphing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ This may give you some ideas of what is available. Download demos and try them out to see what suits your needs:) Most of these programs are <$30 so that is not a bad deal.
Best regards,
Arnor Baldvinsson
San Antonio, Texas
I don’t want to make a movie. I just want to end up with a Photoshop image that shows one object transformed into another.
With the camera set up on a tripod, photograph your tractor, drive it away then photograph your sports car in the same position.
Open both images in Photoshop and drag one across to the other, creating a second layer. Add a layer mask to the top layer and fill the mask with a black to white gradient. Finally, use a soft paint brush at 50% opacity to adjust the blend as necessary.
The effect will be that of one image fading into the other, rather than actually "morphing" in the movie sense of the word.
Hope this helps
Chris.
The two objects are not in the same place on the page. I don’t know how better to describe the effect I want – there’s obviously a word that’s not morphing or blending – but I don’t know what it is.
The important thing is to see the transformation between the two objects across the page.
If I can find a suitable image to explain the project, how do I post it onto the forum?
That’s morphing and that’s why I said it’d be very difficult to make in Photoshop.
It’s not just changing blend modes and transparencies and masks. It’s about changing forms.
There was a program once called Kais Power Goo that would morph one photo into another. See if you can find it. It might help you achieve what you want.
Wasn’t it bought by Corel?
MetaCreations was slahed up in little pieces. Adobe bought some applications, Corel bought some others and so on. Many (indeed most) of these true gems are not supported any more, and the only chance you have of finding a copy is second hand or via P2P… Sad, but true.
I thought I already explained how to do this?
Go back and read my post #6.
Ah, yes. Kai Krause. I wonder if the legend of him brewing new and wondrous software in his retirement in a German castle to amaze us one more time still holds true. ;P