Toolbars

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 Mixer. 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 Mixer 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. 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 photo mix. 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.

The toolbar in the Preview window has two buttons which let you preview in proof mode or in draft mode. Proof mode shows you what your photo mix 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 photo mix more quickly.

In normal mode, you can also toggle some preview options while in draft mode. First is the stretch button, which lets you stretch the photo mix 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. Above these buttons is a track bar which lets you see the various photo mixes in your timeline, if you have more than one.

The Timeline window (which is not available in beginner mode) has one toolbar. With the first button, you can add a new photo mix to your timeline. Preview All Frames allows you to see a thumbnail of every frame of your photo mix in the Timeline window.