Morph Ghosting

[Lrcarver2]

I have been playing around with this morphing program awhile and have noticed a ghosting problem in some parts of my morphs. When changing one person into another, part of the target picture begins to appear while the start picture is changing toward it. I have tried control points and lines as well as playing with key frames to make one image flow into the next, but the ghosting is really messing things up. What is the trick here?

[Ark]

There is no trick, part of the morph turning one picture into another means the pixels have to fade from one to another. If you place no dots at all on the pictures, it will only be a fade from one picture to another.

[Lrcarver2]

So how do you get the clean morphing from one object into another as in the samples. For instance, in the morph I have with the most glaring problem, I start with the image of a person and end with a werewolf, both in profile. The head of the werewolf is somewhat bigger than the person, so the head of the person should expand into the head of the werewolf. The ear, eye, and back of the head and shoulders flow smoothly. But the snout has trouble. The face of the person expands okay for the first 12 to 15 frames (it is a 6 second morph), but then the wolf's snout begins to fade in as a ghost image and gets clearer as the face continues to expand and finally the two images merge at the end. I do not see this in any of the samples. I studied their layouts to see if there were tecniques they were using I could copy. I thought I might be using too many dots and they were crossing each other's paths during the morph and confusing the program. But when I streamlined the layout, the ghosting remained.
And as I mentioned, there are parts in my other morphs with the same problem, some that are straight-line shifts of dots with no cross-overs. Should I wait for the arrival of my back-up disk and try another install in case the download did not come through so well on my dial-up?

[Ark]

No, you do not need to reinstall, the download is fine. It seems like it is simply a matter of placing the dots in a different location because they are not doing precisely what you want in the morph currently.

[Lrcarver2]

I had a thought last night while thinking of this odd behavior. Does in matter which image you put the dots on at first? When doing a somewhat intricate morph, I find it is easier to see what I am doing by putting the dots on the target image, then moving them on the start image. I don't know why that might matter as you are moving from start image to target image, and I can't specifically remember if I did it this way on the problem areas in question. Hhmm....I wonder.......

[Ark]

No, it does not matter which picture you place the dots on first. The end results will be the same. You can place one dot, then move it's parter, or place them all on one picture and move them all on the other, it won't really matter in the end.