Mix 2 photos into 1 with Abrosoft FantaMorph 3

Have you ever heard of the famous series about young beasts who have the ability to switch between people and animals with different abilities? If you want to create such images yourself, no complicated graphics software, Abrosoft FantaMorph 3, an extremely unique graphic software will help you create a blending effect of a human face. and animal face, giving a perfect new face with all the properties of both old photos very quickly but also very simply.

Also with this program you can use it to 'combine' different faces to see how blending them will produce a unique new work! Abrosoft FantaMorph 3 supports you to export images with different image formats such as BMP, TIFF, JPG, PCX, GIF, EMF . Especially, it also supports you to export the file as a Flash file, web page, screen saver or a file. The movie shows a seamless transition in combining two photos (read the Content section of the program to understand the effects).

Abrosoft FantaMorph 3 is a trial program with 2 Profession versions ($ 49.95) and SE ($ 29.95). Pro version supports adding effects in movie files and some other advanced editing tools, you can download them at http://www.fantamorph.com/, 3.99Mb, works well on all operating systems.

The interface of the program is quite nice and has 3 windows:

• Image 1: where you open the 1st image.

• Image 2: where you open the second image.

• Preview: the frame showing the stages of photo entry.

To create a new project, go to File> New Project Wizard , there are 2 options: Morph if you want to create a movie mix between the two photos and the Warp to create a movie from just one image (without blending. ). Here I choose Morph , a dialog box appears asking you to enter the location of the two original photos, click Next to move to the next picture. In this step, if you have a need to edit photos, select Crop , or Adjust (color correction), click Next and continue to choose the screen size of the movie ( Movie Size ) and movie length ( Movie Length ). . Click Next to finish the preparation step and go to the main editing stage.

On the main toolbar you select the + symbol to add the selected points for the program to change. The selection point is quite important and only on image 1, if you do not set the selection point, the program will mix all the points in the image and you will hardly recognize the blend. If you set the selection points in image 1, the program will bring the blended area of ​​the selection point into Figure 2, of course the area in the selection point of Figure 1 will bring the main focus in the output image. Sign - to remove selected points (remember that more points choose the transition from image 1 to image 2 as soft and standard), arrow symbol to select and move select points (you can open 1 file in the Sample folder to see how the program works.

The Preview frame is a frame containing the most important final actions:

• Preview slider: helps you see the panorama of the transition effects.

Export to an image file, if you want to take a nice picture of the blending of the two pictures, drag the preview bar to 50% and then click this button to create the image.

Export the movie file, the conversion steps will be recorded as a movie file in the format you choose.

Export Options icon with adjustments for output file:

- Default Format: here you can choose to output the file as image (Image), movie (AVI Movie), animation ( Animated GIF ), create screen saver .

- Format Settings: select the frame rate for AVI files, if you want to reduce the size of the Avi file you can check Export Compressed AVI.

- Export Options: additional options such as Use Hardware Acceleration (using hardware acceleration), Save project Before Export (save the project before exporting), Auto Open After Export (automatically open after exporting) .

To change other parameters for the Movie file, click Movie> Size to choose the screen size (for DVD, VCD or NTSC), Movie> Length to adjust the length of the movie. Item Tool> Edit Options also has many other options such as Frame Thumb Size , Back Color , brightness, sharpness . You can adjust these parameters (should increase or decrease bit by bit because of the default parameters of The program is quite standard).

Hopefully with Abrosoft FantaMorph 3 you will have exciting moments to relax when your imagination soar with the unique effects that the program brings.

Nguyen Dinh Dai Duong