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### 7.8.31 Shape Tools/Morph

This function modifies one image layer step by step, so that it will look like another image layer. This process is called morphing.

This function is only available, if the active document contains 2 image layers. Layer 1 is the source layer, layer 2 is the destination layer.

The left side of the dialog shows the source layer, the right side the destination layer.

In the middle there is a preview if the steps in between. The slider below the preview controls, what step to show.

In order to morph you have to create arrows in the source. You create an arrow by clicking and dragging. By clicking on an existing arrow it is selected and can be modified. A selected arrow can be deleted with delete, too.

The arrows that you are creating in the left picture, appear in the right, too. You have to move them to the corresponding positions.

A small example should explain this a bit. We want to morph a face to another. Now we create arrows for all important structures in the source face: the nose, the mouth, the eyes, the eyebrows and the shape of the face. The arrows in the destination are moved to the same structures: the nose, the mouth, and so on.

You can change the color of the arrows with the color field.

File allows loading and saving the arrows.

Steps controls the number of morph steps created.

Reset deletes all arrows.

OK creates the animation and inserts for each step an image layer.

You can view the result with Web/Animate Layers and save it as animated layers.