:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: =snip from a email reply= The gold dot thang was my first swing at Morphimation. It is by NO Means the only way to do this. Just something fun to try to get a glittery effect. The main concept.... the base principle... is to use the clipboard on out put then do what -ever to the next image or frame is what it really is. When you have the 2nd image the way you want it you go to F/X and morph at least 1 frame checking the clipboard as the image to us as the morphing frame. ::::UPDATE::: You can use 0 and you will get a two frame animation. It won't have the morph / transition frame in the middle though. ::::/-End-UPDATE:::: Then it will be animated. I've used at least half of the available filters at IM Morphimating. Getting all kinds of different effects. Check out the gallery linked at the bottom of the tute page to see for your self the wide variety of applications. As I say in the tute it's self. Virtually anything your brain can come up with give it a shot! Lets see what happens! Annotating can and does come out with some phenomenal effects. A fade in and out in most cases. Compositing works great too. Try comp Luminize (sp?) something like that. Blend 90% and watch the center of the image light up when it animates. If you use a lighter colored image to comp. That's how I got the rose girl image to do that. Coalese I discovered mades golds and silvers richen. I used that to richen the dots up. And heck no not after each dot you will be there all week! LOL You can use replace say a fuzz of 1 or 11 play around with it to get dots or pixels to change color so it is like glitter when the image is animated. Lots of tricks and tweaks you can do. I'm blabbing too many of my secrets I better zip it. LOL Surprise me! Come up with something that just works so kewl. I love the interaction of imagineers/ing and when it clicks what a rush! ....Better than drugs ..               ....Not better than sex though .... BWAH. My-bad ====== DRAT! I just lost a bunch of this email. Please email me with your sig disabled. My LBB sometimes chokes on sigs as I had yours attached so I wouldn't skip over your questions. My webbie froze and went back a screen and dumped the newer text at the bottom. Thanks! For disabling your sig! Now, ..where was I? I forgot what I was finger flapping about LOL :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: You can use just about any image. Even one that is already animated. It will output HUGE though with mucho frames. Triple the amount of frames the animation already was to begin with if you morph 1 frame under F/X. No need to make a sub to animate do it all right there. Use any of the filters in IM annotate comp draw what ever! Morph more frames than 1 or two then split the frames on output and use one frame as a image or turn around and use the one frame as your input image. Change it some and morphimate that one. It has no limits. Addictive as all get out! LOL ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::