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Start by using the first option on the wizard to create a new layout. The wizard will guide you through picture loading, and then give you
more detailed steps to help you get started on your morph.
Place Dots - Click on the "Add Dots" tool, then click anywhere on the first picture to add a dot. To create the best morph, try to
place dots on and around all key features of the picture. As an example, when morphing images of faces, key features are the eyes, nose, and
mouth. Remember that the more dots you place, the smoother your end result will be.
Adjust Dots - For every dot you place on one picture, a corresponding dot, or "partner" dot, will appear
on the other picture. You will only need to adjust the placement of each partner dot so that the key
features morph just the way you'd like them to. To move the dots around, first click on the "Move Dots" tool, then click on any dot in either
picture. Notice that the dot and its partner will both be glowing and blinking. Click on a dot and hold the mouse button down to drag the dot
to a new location. Release the mouse button when the dot is at the desired location.
Try to position the dots so that they match the key feature at which their partner dots are located on the other picture.
Viewing Your Morph - Once you have completed placing dots on your
pictures, you can preview your morph in the "Preview" window by pressing the "Play" button. Alternatively, you can
email your morph using the "Email your morph to a friend" option under the Share menu. You can also
select "Render Timeline" from the File menu and you'll be able to export your morph in
various movie formats for display on the Internet or Email.
Important tip about this help page: Many images are just thumbnails. When you move your mouse over these thumbnails and see the Enlarge arrow, simply
click the picture to display the full size image. Click the full size image to shrink it back to the thumbnail in order to read the text underneath it.
When this box is checked in the layout wizard, many advanced options will be hidden. None of the hidden options are needed to get started creating
basic morphs. If you are just learning to use Morpheus Photo Animation Suite, it is recommended that you leave Beginner Mode Menus checked in order to
familiarize yourself with the basic options and make it easier to get started having fun.
On the second page of the wizard, you should load your pictures for your morph by clicking on the Load Picture
buttons above the preview boxes. After you see the pictures that you want to use in the preview
boxes, click the Next button.
At the top of the main window, you will see two toolbars. The first toolbar is the Standard toolbar which contains an assortment of buttons
to make some common tasks easier. The first section of the toolbar has buttons to create a new layout, open an existing layout, save your layout for
future editing, and render your work to a file for viewing outside of Morpheus Photo Animation Suite. The second section of the toolbar contains buttons for undo, redo,
and cut, copy, and paste. Undo and redo allow you to undo almost any operation in Morpheus Photo Animation Suite and cut, copy, and paste allow you to manipulate the
dots or lines in the picture windows. Near the end of the toolbar you will find a button to load different pictures into any picture window, a
dropdown box which allows you to zoom in and out of the pictures, and a help button which can be used to display any of the various help files right
inside the program.
If you have unchecked the beginner mode menus option, you will see a few extra options on the Standard toolbar. First, there are options to
change the color, opacity, style, and size of any dots or lines you have selected.
In the middle is a button which can be used to quickly set the fade value for any selected dots.
This requires you to have at least one key frame in your morph.
Also, there are toggle buttons to hide or show all of the dots, lines, and triangle lines in the picture windows.
The large toolbar under the Standard toolbar is the Tools toolbar. This toolbar contains
the tools which you will use the majority of the time you are creating your morph. With the Zoom tool, you can click to zoom in and right-click to
zoom out. With the Pan tool, you can click and drag to view different portions of the picture when you have zoomed in. The Move Dots tool allows you
to click and drag individual dots to move them around. The Select Dots tool allows you to drag a box around multiple dots, then click and drag any of
those dots to move the entire group around all at once. Finally, the Add Dots tool will place a new dot on the pictures every time you click the mouse.
In normal mode, you will also have line tools which operate very similar to the dot tools. Connect Dots will allow you to add a new line by
connecting any two existing dots, and will not allow any new dots to be placed. Draw Free Line will place a new line to or from an existing dot,
or at any other point on the picture, where a new dot will be placed on either end of the line if needed.
There are two toolbars in the Preview window. The first toolbar contains familiar play and stop buttons
used to preview your morph right inside of Morpheus Photo Animation Suite. The buttons on each side of the track bar can be used to step forward or backward one frame
at a time, and the track bar in the middle can be used to view any single frame in your morph by dragging it to the frame you want to view.
The second toolbar
has two buttons which let you preview in proof mode or in draft mode. Proof mode shows you what your morph will look like in the actual size and
detail it will be if you render it to a file or email it. Draft mode allows you to fill the Preview window and to see your morph more quickly.
There is also a display which shows you what frame number you are viewing in your animation, the time of that frame, and the total time of the
entire animation.
In normal mode, you can also toggle some preview options while in draft mode. First is the stretch button, which lets you stretch the morph
to fill the entire Preview window, or show it in its actual size. The next three buttons allow you to see the dots, lines, or triangles in the
Preview window.
The Timeline window (which is not available in beginner mode) has one toolbar.
With the first three buttons, you can add a new morph, warp, or photo mix to your timeline.
Preview All Frames allows you to see a thumbnail of every frame of your morph in the Timeline window.
Show Key Frames will display thumbnails of any key frames in the timeline. Key frames can exist on the exact same spot as a normal frame, or
they can occur at a time location in between two normal frames. You can use Make Key Frame to turn any picture or other frame into a key frame for
more control over your morph. Delete Key Frame will delete a key frame and all of the dot locations set in that key frame.
When you have a movie file loaded for any of the pictures instead of a still picture, a third toolbar will
appear at the top of the main window.
This toolbar lets you view any frame of the movie in the picture window by moving the track bar to the desired location. The buttons on each side of
the track bar let you step forward or backward one frame at a time, while the buttons just past those will step forward or backward one movie key
frame. The next section has two buttons for adding or deleting movie key frames for the frame you are currently viewing. Last, there is a label to
show what time position you are currently viewing and which movie key frame the dots shown in the picture window currently represent.
The easiest way to load pictures is to use the Layout Wizard, which will assist you in getting started with a new layout and new pictures. If you
want to load a different picture, or are past the wizard, there are many other ways you can add pictures to your layout. The Load Picture button
allows you to load a picture into the currently active picture window, and you can also drag picture files into the picture windows
from Windows Explorer. If you are using normal mode and have the Timeline window showing, you can also drag
pictures into the picture boxes in the timeline. If you drag a picture to the empty area of the Timeline window, a new morph will be appended
automatically and the picture will be added to that. You can also drag multiple pictures at once to the Timeline window to load pictures for
multiple morphs at once.
Each dot is really a pair of two dots; one on each picture. The opposite dot is referred to as a partner dot.
Each dot pair will start out at the location on the starting picture, and move through the morph to its location given on the ending picture.
For example, if you were morphing two face pictures and wanted the nose on the starting picture to morph into the nose on the ending
picture, you should make sure that the dots you place around the nose in the starting picture are the partner dots of the dots that go around
the nose in the ending picture.
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that it will become highlighted with color
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and that dot's partner dot will become highlighted in black and white
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When you click on a dot to select it for moving, it will also blink
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as will its partner dot
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If you click on the picture, but not on a dot, the Move Dots tool will act like the Pan tool for moving around the picture when zoomed in.
To move multiple dots at once, use the Select Dots tool, then click on the picture and drag a box around the dots you want to move. Next,
click on any of the selected dots to move them all around together. To add dots to your existing selection, Shift+click directly on a dot, or
Shift+click on the picture and drag a box around some more dots. To remove dots from your selection, use Ctrl instead of Shift.
Using the built-in upload wizard, you can send your morphs directly to a webpage from right inside of Morpheus Photo Animation Suite. You can upload directly to
On the second page of the wizard, you will select the type of file you want to create and upload to the website. Different websites support
different formats, and some formats produce better results than others, depending on the websites.
Your morph must be rendered before it can be uploaded. Once you click Next on the second page of the wizard, the rendering process will begin
automatically. When it is finished, you will see the third page of the wizard.
On the third page of the wizard, all you need to do is press the Upload Morph button when you are ready. Different websites may have
different maximum file sizes, so the general recommendation is to keep your file no more than 2,000,000 bytes to ensure that it is not rejected after
you upload it. If your morph is too large, you must decrease the size in the Timeline Options window or decrease the number of frames in the
Morph Options window. If you are trying to send as an Animated GIF, try Flash SWF instead. If you are sending a compressed movie file, try a different
codec or higher compression settings.
On the last page of the wizard, there are several different links to the webpage which is now hosting your morph. It is important to
remember that some webpages, particularly YouTube, will not display your upload until it has been processed, which can take 30 minutes or more at
times. The links shown on this page will work when YouTube makes your upload live, but may not work right away. You can always log into your YouTube
account to verify your upload is there though. 
The easiest way to email your morph is to use the wizard from right inside Morpheus Photo Animation Suite. Select "Email your morph to a friend" from the
Share menu. On the first page, you enter your email address and the email address(es) of the friend(s) to whom you wish to send your morph.
On the second page of the wizard, you will need to choose what type of file you want to email. The default (Flash SWF) is best in most
circumstances because it will upload the fastest and it will be the highest quality. Animated GIF files can typically be viewed from inside of common
email programs instead of being sent as an attachment, but the nature of GIF files makes them a lower quality choice, so your morph may not look
as good.
On the last page of the wizard, all you need to do is press the Send Morph button when you are ready. There is a maximum file size of
2,000,000 bytes, and any files larger than that will be rejected. If your morph is too large, you must decrease the size in the Timeline Options
window or decrease the number of frames in the Morph Options window. If you are trying to send as an Animated GIF, try Flash SWF instead.
Zooming in allows fine-tuning of dots for detailed morphs and zooming out allows working with large pictures on a smaller desktop size. When using
the zoom tool, each click in the picture window will double the zoom, and each right-click will cut the zoom in half.
While using any tool at all, you can select a zoom value from the zoom dropdown on the toolbar, or just type in any zoom value you wish.
"Fit in Window" will automatically pick the largest zoom value possible without causing the need for scrollbars to appear.
The Timeline Options window can be found by selecting Options from the Timeline menu or by pressing Ctrl+I. The options here control your entire
morph across the entire timeline. More options, which can vary from morph to morph, can be found in the Morph Options window.
The Morph Options window can be found by selecting Options from the Morph menu, or by pressing Ctrl+O. The options here control only the specific
morph for which they are set, and each morph can have different options set for it here. More options which control the entire timeline
can be found in the Timeline Options window.
Lines allow for more fine tuning of the creation of the triangles that actually control which portions of the starting
picture turn into which portions of the ending picture. If you enable the Show Triangles option
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then you can see all of the automatically generated triangle lines, creating the optimal triangle configuration based on the locations of all
currently placed dots.
The solution to this problem is to define some lines of your own. In this case, if you add a line connecting the yellow and red dots, then the line
which connected the black and green dots will no longer be generated, and the dots can move to the same position in the ending picture without
causing overlapping triangles.
The Move Lines tool functions just like the Move Dots tool, except it works on lines. Lines will become highlighted and blink with color, and their
partner lines will do the same in black and white. The same arrow key combinations used to move dots also works to move lines. The Delete key will
also delete a selected line.
The Select Lines tool functions just like the Select Dots tool, except it works on lines. When dragging a selection box to select lines, only a
piece of the line must be inside the box to be selected. You do not need to drag the box around the entire length of the line.
Connect Dots will allow a new line to be placed, without creating any new dots in the process. You can either click on a dot, hold the button down,
and drag a line to any other existing dot, or you can click on a dot and let go, then click on another dot. With this tool, you do not need to
drag the mouse all the way to the second dot or click on the second dot. A dotted line will be shown from the first dot to the dot nearest the current
mouse pointer location as you move the mouse around, showing you exactly where the new line will be created. Morpheus Photo Animation Suite will not allow two lines to
be connected to the same two dots, and attempting to do so will produce no new line.
Draw Free Line operates similar to Connect Dots, except that you can optionally create one or two new dots in the process of adding a line. Either
end of the line you create can be on an existing dot or in any empty place on the picture, where a new dot will be created. If you
hold Shift with the first click, then only a horizontal or vertical line will be created. When using the Move Lines or Select Lines tools,
Alt+click will add a line, just like it would add a dot when using the dot tools. Though this will require a second click (or a long drag from the
first click) for the other end of the line. Also, Alt+Shift+click will add only a straight horizontal or vertical line.
Dots and lines can be displayed in a variety of different color schemes, styles, and sizes. By default, dots are set to cycle through a set of
8 colors in a medium sized square shape. Each morph in your timeline can be given a different look for the dot's default look in that morph.
Lines can be displayed in a variety of different ways just like dots, except there is no shape selection. By default, all lines are a solid color.
Triangles can also be customized with all the same choices as lines. All lines are also triangle lines, but when you are viewing both lines
and triangle lines in your pictures, the settings for lines will be used for the lines you placed, while the settings for triangles will be used
for the generated lines which cannot be moved.
In addition to being able to set a default way to display dots and lines for each morph, you can assign specific customization to dots and
lines individually by using the Customize Selected Items option under the Edit menu. While the color scheme option does not apply to customizing
a specific dot or line, there is an additional choice for each option called 'Automatic'. Selecting Automatic for any of the various options will
result in using the default settings for that morph.
Customizing groups of dots or lines individually lets you group them to your tastes, to separate pieces of your work. For example, you could set
all the dots around the eyes in a picture of a face to one color and shape, and set the dots around the mouth to a different color and shape.
These four buttons on the toolbar will also allow you to customize selected dots and lines, just like the Customize Selected Items option.
You can also use the Page Up and Page Down keys to quickly cycle through eight basic colors for dots or lines. Pressing Shift+Page Up
or Shift+Page Down will cycle through shapes for selected dots as well.
When you are finished with your morph, you will want to render it to a file so you can view it in other programs, upload it to your webpage,
or email it to a friend. Use the Render Timeline button
on the toolbar to render your morph.
After you select a folder and enter a file name, make sure you select the type of file you want to render to from the
"Save as type" dropdown at the bottom of the Save As window.
does not do the same thing as rendering with the Render Timeline option
Cut, Copy, and Paste work similar to how they work in other programs, with one important difference: When you cut or copy dots or lines, what you are
actually copying is the locations of those dots or lines on the picture. When you paste dots or lines, you will actually be pasting the locations
of the dots or lines, in effect, moving them to new locations.
in their upper right corners. The help screens are all docking panes, and the Timeline and Preview windows are also docking panes by default.
The Timeline and Preview windows can each be made into normal windows like the picture windows by unchecking the Timeline Dockable or Preview Dockable
options under the View menu.
works just like closing a normal window. You can reshow the Timeline and Preview windows by selecting those options from the View menu. Help panes
can be reshown by selecting them from the Help menu.
the docking pane will hide itself and leave behind a tab
with its name on it. When you hover over the tab, the pane will pop back up on top of the window until you move your mouse away. If you click on
the docking pane, it will stay visible until you click on a different window or docking pane. Press the auto hide button
again to dock the pane back in a permanent position if you no longer want it to automatically hide and show itself like this.
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Only one of the panes will be visible at a time and clicking on the tabs changes which pane you see. You can also click and drag the tabs to
rearrange the order however you like.
If you click and drag a docking pane's title, or click and drag the tab when more than one pane is docked at the same location, you can move the
pane to another location. These buttons will help you dock a pane by allowing you to drag the mouse to either one of the four edge buttons in order
to dock the pane to a particular side of the window, or to the middle button which will dock the pane with an existing pane.
Panes can be resized when they are docked by dragging the edge; similar to how normal windows can be resized. Panes that are docked and not set to
auto hide will take up space that regular windows cannot use. So if you need more room for your picture windows, you can either shrink the size of
the docking panes or set them to auto hide.
to move through the tabs when many windows are open at once.
The close button appears on the tab of any visible picture window.
The window tabs can be clicked and dragged for reordering, or they can be dragged to other groups. Drag a tab to the edges of a group to split the
group in half, creating a new group.
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you can select View / Window Tabs / No Window Tabs. With this option, windows can be moved and resized inside of the main Morpheus Photo Animation Suite window.
There is also the View / Window Tabs / With Regular Windows option, which will use regular windows with the minimize, maximize, and close buttons,
but it will also have a tab bar showing all open windows. This hybrid option does not allow tabs to be grouped like the default option.
Without tab groups, when a window is not maximized, you can use the Snap Window option under the Picture menu to snap the edges of the window around
the picture space, eliminating the extra border area.
The Preview window displays one frame of your morph at a time and is constantly updated as you add or move dots or
lines in the picture windows to show you what the results will look like. Toggle displaying and hiding the Preview window by pressing Ctrl+P.
buttons can be used to animate the Preview window by showing what the animation would look like when rendered to a file.
Options such as the Frames per second, Render direction, and Loop morph options in the Timeline Options window will be obeyed when playing your
animation in the Preview window. Depending on the speed of your computer, the animation may play slower than desired if frames cannot be rendered
in time. Select a faster draft speed or render your animation to a file and play that file to see the actual speed. Also, when in proof mode,
drawing Dots/Lines/Triangles is controlled by the respective options in the Morph Options window instead of by the buttons on the Preview toolbar.
will move the display in the Preview window forward or backward one frame at a time. Note that all frames such as the "Frames to hold for at start"
will be shown in the Preview window exactly as they would when the animation is rendered to a file. The label below the track bar shows which frame
is currently being displayed out of the total number of frames in the entire timeline. It also displays the current time at which the frame being
shown starts being displayed, and the total length of the entire timeline in minutes and seconds in parentheses. Please note that the last frame
does not start at the time which is equal to the length of the entire timeline. In an animation, frames are displayed for a certain short duration,
and thus total length is equal to the time at which the last frame stops, not starts, being displayed.
and Draft
buttons change how the Preview window displays the current frame. In proof mode the rest of the buttons are disabled, and the frames are always
displayed in the exact size and quality used when rendering to a file. This may mean that the preview is displayed smaller than it could be, leaving
empty space around the edges, or that it is displayed with scrollbars if it does not all fit in the Preview window. In draft mode, the picture is
rendered faster, depending on which draft speed is selected from the menu associated with the Draft button. The higher the draft speed, the more
pixelated the Preview window will display, but the quicker the frame can be displayed.
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Draw Dots
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Draw Lines
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and Draw Triangles
buttons are only available in draft mode. Stretch to Fit will cause the Preview window to display the frame as large as possible without using scrollbars.
Turning Stretch to Fit off will display the frame the actual size it will be rendered, leaving empty space or using scrollbars as needed. The three
draw buttons will toggle showing the current position of the dots, lines, and triangles in the Preview window. These can be useful for
watching how the dots move from their positions on the starting pictures to their positions on the ending pictures and understanding how
the morph works.
The Timeline window shows thumbnails of all the pictures for each morph in your layout. You can add additional morphs to the timeline by
using the first three buttons on the Timeline toolbar. To open a picture in order to place dots or lines on it,
doubleclick on the thumbnail in the Timeline window. If you doubleclick on the morph buttons above the pictures, then both pictures for
that morph will be opened side by side. Toggle displaying and hiding the Timeline window by pressing Ctrl+T.
To insert a key frame at an exact point in the timeline, select Insert Key Frame from the Timeline menu. Select which morph to add the key frame
too, then enter a percentage anywhere from 0.00 to 100.00, and click OK. Key frames added this way may not line up exactly on a regular frame in
the Timeline window, but there are no downsides to that.
Interpolate Selected Dots is an option available under the Edit menu when you have one or more dots selected on a key frame window. This option
will allow you to automatically place dots at the position they would be at, for the correct percentage point of the current key frame interpolated
between two other key frames or pictures. For the "From location," you can select the Starting Picture, or any key frame which occurs before the
current one. For the "To location," you can select the Ending Picture, or any key frame which occurs after the current one. For example, if you have
four key frames, at 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80%, and select some dots on the 40% key frame, and select to interpolate from the 20% key frame to the 80%
key frame, then all of the dots selected will move to positions weighted by 2/3 of the coordinates of the dots on the 20% key frame, and 1/3 of the
dots on the 80% key frame. This is because the 40% key frame is twice as close (in percentage value) to the 20% key frame as it is to the 80% key
frame.
The Fade Selected Dots button
on the Standard toolbar
is used to set the fade for the selected dots entirely to one picture instead of the normal blending.
This will cause the morph to fade only during the portion of time between the picture and the nearest key frame, instead of fading during the
entire length of the morph. Selecting Blend Pictures will revert to the default behavior.
The fade graphs work together with key frames to control how the dot fades from the starting picture to the ending picture on top
of the path the dot takes from one picture to another. Normally all dots fade evenly from the starting picture to the ending picture as the
morph progresses, but with the fade graphs, you can delay the fading of portions of the morph to start or end at different points in
animation, or you can even have the morph fade toward the ending picture then temporarily back to the starting picture before finishing
the morph by fading entirely to the ending picture.
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will appear for each key frame in the morph. Control points will become enabled and turn blue
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if moved up or down on their lines. The currently selected control point shows up as orange
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will cause it to move back to the automatic position between the control points on each side of it. In the lower left and upper right corners of the
graph are special control points
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which represent the starting and ending pictures fully faded to themselves. These control points cannot be adjusted, but key frames can be added
at 0% or 100% to achieve the same effect. The blue line in the graph represents how that group of dots will fade as the morph progresses from
start to finish.
The Input Movie Options window, found under the Picture menu, is only used when using a movie instead of a still picture as the source picture.
Here you can set either the start time or the end time of the movie. Morpheus Photo Animation Suite will never change the speed at which input movies are "played"
as they morph so if the input movie has a different frame rate than your morph has set in the Timeline Options window, frames from the
input movie will either be skipped or duplicated to keep it in sync.
will jump forward or backward one movie key frame at a time.
on the Input Movie toolbar. The currently displayed movie key frame can deleted by pressing the Delete Key Frame button
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unless the current key frame is the special undeletable one.
The Picture Layout window, not to be confused with the layout file where your work is saved, allows you to place your picture inside or around the
morph area. The morph area is the width and height of your morph, as defined in the Timeline Options window. By default, all pictures will be
stretched to fill the morph area exactly, even if that distorts the pictures by changing their aspect ratio. The Picture Layout is available under
the Picture menu or by pressing Ctrl+L.
| General Shortcuts | |
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| Ctrl+S | Save Layout |
| Ctrl+R | Render Timeline |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo last operation |
| Ctrl+Y | Redo last undone operation |
| Ctrl+I | Timeline Options |
| Ctrl+P | Toggle Preview window |
| Ctrl+T | Toggle Timeline window |
| F1 | Help |
| Alt+Left/Right | Forward/Backward 1 frame in the Preview window |
| Shift+Alt+Left/Right | Forward/Backward 1 morph in the Preview window |
| Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right | Jump to first/last frame in the Preview window |
| Per-Picture Shortcuts | |
| Ctrl+O | Morph Options |
| Ctrl+L | Picture Layout |
| Ctrl+1 | Zoom to 100% |
| Ctrl+W | Zoom to automatically fit in window |
| Mouse Wheel Up / + | Zoom in |
| Mouse Wheel Down / - | Zoom out |
| Enter | Jump back and forth between the two picture windows |
| [ / ] | Jump between the picture windows and key frame windows |
| < / > | Forward/Backward 1 movie key frame |
| Tool Shortcuts | |
| P | Pan |
| Z | Zoom |
| D | Move Dots |
| S | Select Dots |
| A | Add Dots |
| L | Move Lines |
| E | Select Lines |
| C | Connect Dots |
| F | Draw Free Line |
| Move or Select Dots or Lines Shortcuts | |
| Ctrl+X | Cut dots/lines positions |
| Ctrl+C | Copy dots/lines positions |
| Ctrl+V | Paste dots/lines positions |
| Delete | Delete dots/lines |
| Ctrl+A | Select all dots/lines |
| Ctrl+D / ESC | Deselect all dots/lines |
| Ctrl+U | Customize selected dots/lines |
| Page Up/Down | Change selected dots/lines color |
| Shift+Page Up/Down | Change selected dots style |
| Alt+Click | Add dot or draw free line |
| Shift+Alt+Click | Draw free straight hroizontal or vertical line |
| Move Dots or Lines Shortcuts | |
| Click+Drag Dot/Line | Select a single dot/line and move it |
| Click+Drag Picture | Deselect dot/line and pan picture |
| Shift+Click+Drag Dot/Line | Select a single dot/line and move it only in a straight horizontal or vertical line |
| Ctrl+Click Dot/Line | Select a single dot/line without being able to move it |
| Arrow Keys | Move dot/line by 1 pixel |
| Shift+Arrows | Move dot/line by 10 pixels |
| Ctrl+Arrows | Move cursor to nearest dot/line |
| Ctrl+Shift+Arrows | Move cursor 10 dots/lines at a time |
| Select Dots or Lines Shortcuts | |
| Click+Drag Picture | Set a new selection by dragging a rectangle around dots/lines |
| Click+Drag Selected Dot/Line | Move dots/lines |
| Click+Drag Unselected Dot/Line | Select just that dot/line and move it |
| Shift+Click+Drag Picture | Add dots/lines inside rectangle to selection |
| Shift+Click+Drag Dot/Line | Add dot/line to selection and move entire selection |
| Ctrl+Click+Drag Picture | Remove dots/lines inside rectangle from selection |
| Ctrl+Click Dot/Line | Remove dot/line from selection |
| Arrow Keys | Move cursor to nearest dot/line |
| Shift+Arrows | Move cursor 10 dots/lines at a time |
| Ctrl+Arrows | Move selected dots/lines by 1 pixel |
| Ctrl+Shift+Arrows | Move selected dots/lines by 10 pixels |
| Spacebar | Toggle the cursor dot/line in and out of the selection |
| Draw Free Line Shortcuts | |
| Shift+Click | Draw straight horizontal or vertical line |
Also, right-click in the picture windows, on dots and lines, on any of the buttons in the Timeline window, or on any of the toolbars at the top of the main window for helpful popup menus.
27. Additional Help
Please run through the tutorial, read the FAQ, and play around with the variety sample morphs that come included with Morpheus Photo Animation Suite.
If you have come to this point and you still have questions or if you would like to suggest a feature, feel free to visit our support forums and we will do our best to assist you in making your experience with Morpheus Photo Animation Suite a great one.
Thank you for using Morpheus Photo Animation Suite.