Phoenix Software introduces two new Smith Micro products, Morpheus Photo Animation Suite, QuickVerse 2010, for Windows or Mac

Morpheus Animation Suite is a bundle of tools for making your own morphed images. As the name implies, this product combines a suite of tools sharing the same interface to allow users to morph, warp, and mix photos.

Photo Morpher can transform one person or object into another right before your eyes, enabling you to turn family and friends into pets and plants; Photo Warper is a distortion tool, enabling you to add bloating and bulges to your photos - or, indeed, take them out; and Photo Mixer can blend faces and mix body parts between two photos.

Each component can be used to generate animations automatically to fill in the stages between your original photo and its manipulated result. The sequence can be saved in Flash, QuickTime or GIF format for desktop or online deployment.

Hollywood style photo effects, fun slideshows, weird distortions and crazy animations can be created to entertain friends and family. Users can transform themselves into their favourite rock star, movie star, or celebrity, warp a body into any shape, or mix animal and human characteristics.

* Post output to your favourite Web sites like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and more.
* Save as Flash, animated GIF, JPEG ,TIFF and easily post to a Web site or blog.
* E-mail to family and friends.
* Warp photos to create funhouse mirror effects.
* Slim down or bulk up your body.
* Morph one photo into another.
* Includes 15 ready to use examples.
* Quickly learn how to create photo animation with tutorials.

Morpheus Animation Suite is available from retailers countrywide at an SRP of R799.

QuickVerse 2010 is Bible study at its best. Streamlined features give instant access to scriptures, commentaries, definitions, and even the original Greek and Hebrew text. With audio pronunciations, users can finally know how to pronounce names and words correctly - over 6 500 audio words are simply a click away. New believers will appreciate the many interesting quick-Bible facts and the key gospel promises with scripture references. Multiple tabbed windows provide automatic synchronisation so you get the most from your studies and gain a deeper understanding of scripture.

Designed for both casual readers and serious Bible scholars, Mac users will discover QuickVerse Mac to be the most intuitive, Mac-friendly Bible study software on the market.

Key features:

* Prayer journal - Track all your prayers, prayer requests and answers.
* Book notes - Note indicators show note positions in every book.
* Bible quick tools - Quickly find any book, chapter or verse combination across the entire library or search only the words spoken by Jesus.
* Integrated Web pages - Link your favourite sites and view them next to passages.
* Advanced search and retrieval - The industry's fastest way to any book, chapter or verse.
* Reading plans and devotions - Choose from pre-set reading plans or create your own.
* Parallel gospels and Bibles - View similarities or compare different translations.
* Over 1 000 photos- View the Holy Land with full colour photos you can print
* Over 50 maps and diagrams - Detailed maps give context to the sacred Biblical places.
* Audio pronunciations - Over 6 500 sound clips to help pronounce difficult words.
* Enhanced copy and printing - Easily include custom citation when you copy text.
* Interactive study workbooks - Read, answer and print digital workbook results.
* Highlighting capabilities - Colour code your favourite passages by topic or subject.
* Look up original languages - Over 6 000 Greek/Hebrew links and definitions.
* Book linking and synchronisation - Over 125 000 predefined hyperlinks between books.
* Bookmarks - Bookmark your favourite passages for instant recall.

QuickVerse 2010 is available at retailers countrywide at an SRP of R499.