From the text menu, select Animation > Insert Frames > From File. Where it says 'Placement of new frame… Insert before' change number to 1. Change Delay time to 100. The radio buttons should be on 'Centered' and 'Canvas color'.
Click the Add file button. Browse to the folder where the image for your Halloween greeting is stored, select it, and click OK.
Now, let's morph the text into the face. Select Frame 1. Use the arrow tool to select frames.
From text menu, select Effects > Insert Image Transition.
In the Image Transition dialog box, check ' Animation Frame' in the left column (Start with) and in the right column (End with).
In the Effect box, select Morph. The Morph transition will blend the starting frame with the ending frame.
If the Show Preview box is not checked, check it to preview the effect without leaving the dialog box.
I played around with changing the controls for 'Transition Length' and 'Frames per Second' and ended up with a Transition Length of 1.6 and Frames per Second of 10 for a total of 16 transition frames. Change these controls by dragging sliders til they read 1.6 sec and 10 fps.*
* There's no hard and fast rule about what setting to use here. But the longer or more detailed the transition is, the more frames the final animation will have. I originally used a setting that created 38 frames. That was just too many. Sometimes you need to sacrifice some detail to keep file size down!
