FAQ

1. What is Morpheus Photo Mixer?

Morpheus Photo Mixer is an award-winning graphics program that lets you create mixes of characteristics from two photos. Morpheus Photo Mixer lets you create photo mixes in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and other popular formats. It is easy, fast, and fun to use for both beginning and advanced users. There is a beginner mode and tutorial to help you get started quickly. Sample photo mixes come included as well, which can be used as another way to quickly learn the program.

2. How do I get started using Morpheus Photo Mixer?

You can view the tutorial first (recommended) or just start using the program and play around with the sample photo mixes. Morpheus Photo Mixer has a very intuitive interface which is fairly easy to learn. Make sure you leave the beginner mode menus option on while learning how to use Morpheus Photo Mixer.

3. What are beginner mode menus?

By default, Morpheus Photo Mixer will use beginner mode menus, which will hide all but the bare essential menu choices needed to create a simple photo mix. For most users, we suggest starting out by leaving the program in beginner mode and moving up to normal mode once you are comfortable with the program. For power-users and/or image professionals, you might want to use normal mode right away.

You can easily use the normal mode menus by unchecking the beginner mode menus checkbox from the layout wizard which appears when you first start Morpheus Photo Mixer. You can also set this option in the program's preferences window, available under the Edit menu. Normal mode will show all available menu options needed in order to use more of the program's features and to create more complex photo mixes.

4. Why are some of my dots the same color?

In the normal mode of Morpheus Photo Mixer, you can change the color, style, and size of the dots under by selecting Customize Dot's Default from the Morph menu.

There are a number of different schemes to choose from, which provide a variety of colors, let you pick a solid color for all of the dots, or even inverse the picture underneath the dots. The color, style, and size of the dots are up to you, but they will be easier to see if you pick a color scheme where the dots have more contrast to the pictures you are working with.

In beginner mode, you are fixed with the default color scheme, which cycles 8 basic colors across the dots. Note that the 9th dot you add will therefore be the same color as the 1st, the 10th the same as the 2nd, and so on. To tell the dots apart and to correctly locate their partner dot, simply move your mouse over one to highlight it. Its partner dot will then glow as well.

5. What is the best way to view my photo mix when I am finished?

When you have finished creating your photo mix you can view it for yourself right inside the program in the preview window.

In order to use your photo mix in other programs, put it on a website, or email it to a friend, you must first render it to a file. Rendering your photo mix creates a standard file type which can be displayed in other programs, but it cannot be edited in Morpheus Photo Mixer in the future. Select the Render Timeline option from the File menu and you will be able to render your photo mix to a variety of picture formats such as JPEG, PNG, or TIFF.

6. What formats can I render my photo mixes in? Which is the best?

You can save your photo mix to any of these picture formats.

• PNG: Perfect quality images, small file size, and supports full translucency.
• JPEG: Very small files good for webpages, but quality poor at higher compression settings.
• TIFF: Perfect quality images, large like bitmaps.
• BMP: Perfect quality shot of every frame, but very large files.
• TGA: Perfect quality, large, but supports translucency in more programs.
• XPM: Larger than all other formats, but useful for importing to Linux systems.

Which file type is the best depends on what you want to do with your photo mix. If you are unsure, you can try each of the formats and see how they work with the other programs you might want to use your photo mixes with. While Morpheus Photo Mixer can create any of these standard file types, not all third party applications will be able to display files in every one of the available formats.

7. What do I do with my completed photo mixes?

Use your photo mixes to grab people's attention or to have a good time - create web graphics and enhance your web site, email photo mixes to friends and family to make them laugh, create a unique online greeting, post your photo mixes on the Internet, add more life to your presentations, or use your photo mixes in countless other great ways!

If your photo mix is unique and exciting, and you want to share it with other Morpheus Photo Mixer users, you might consider submitting it to us for display.

8. How can I email my photo mix to a friend?

Render your photo mix to a file of any type, and remember the location where you created the file. Attach that file to an email in your regular email program just like you would any other file you wanted to send. It is recommended that you render a file type which will be small in size so the emails can be sent quickly, such as JPEG.

9. I have another question not asked here. How can I contact Morpheus Software?

Please run through the tutorial, read through the help files, and play around with the variety of sample photo mixes that come included with Morpheus Photo Mixer. After trying those options, if you are still unable to resolve your issue, please visit our support forums and we will do our best to assist you in making your experience with Morpheus Photo Mixer a great one.

10. How do I turn one person into another?

Creating an animation of one person transitioning into another is called a morph, but this is not the focus of Morpheus Photo Mixer. In order to create morphs, you would need the functionality of Morpheus Photo Morpher or Morpheus Photo Animation Suite.