Abrosoft's FantaMorph is an interesting piece of specialty software that has an application for every segment of the software-using public, from home users to developers.

First of all, what is morphing? In this application’s sense of the word it’s taking one image and gradually blending it into another. In the most basic use, the application will take two images and create a series of blended frames, gradually “morphing” one to the other. In its more complicated projects, you can morph from one image to another, and another, and another. You could also do a single image morph where you distort the initial image in order to create an effect of facial movement like a wink or smile and so on. You can even morph from one image to another while warping shapes. The possibilities of what you can do in image morphing, and with this application, are literally limited by your imagination alone.

Such is not the case with FantaMorph by Abrosoft. While one could mimic the results in Flash, or another animation program, it would take much longer to get the same or better result than you can attain virtually automatically with FantaMorph. Plus, the output options of this application are loose enough that you don’t get a canned feel and you can further refine the projects in Flash or another program if you want to.

Beyond the exceptional job FantaMorph does and its loose output options, it’s able to do a number of things under the “morphing” umbrella that makes it very useful to a developer/designer. It would be useful for before and after-type morphing, construction and remodeling, automotive body repair, cosmetic surgeon, beauty treatments, website redesign, online advertisements, and more.

Besides its usefulness, the application comes with a number of sample projects. Unfortunately, when you open the application for the first time and chose “existing project,” it opens the projects folder, which would be fine if you’d saved some of your own projects. Instead, go up one folder level, and then into Samples. Here you’ll find some great example projects you should open and examine.