Thanks guys
but there must be a way to avoid it before morphing, right?
sorry i didn't see this back when you posted it a month ago
um, usually (not always) i carefully select all of the breast area, copy it, and paste it as a new layer to work with. And then after using free transform and liquify on it, i usually have to go around the edges with a sharp eraser brush to sharpen up the edges.
the thing is with those ripples, that if you try to move them around much with a smudge tool or liquify, they will distort badly. But if you try to just enlarge a copied portion of the image, then the ripples on the boobs which you have enlarged won't match up with the ripples on the parts of the dress you didn't enlarge. So those ripples in the dress would be a pain no matter how you approach them. If I were doing it, i'd probably enlarge the breasts as their own layer, then liquify the edges of that to get the ripples 'somewhat' lined up... and then spend many hours with the brush tool and small chunks of copy-pasted image trying to create the illusion that all those ripples line up smoothly with the much larger breast layer i created. Honestly, I like a challenge, and sometimes I get new ideas on how to approach a difficult morph, and it's very rewarding to see those turn out well. But I would probably have avoided trying to enlarge a dress with that kind of patterning on it. It just looks like a lot of work, with a fairly low chance of turning out well.
so yeah, sometimes the key to a good morph is choosing the right pic to morph. with a lot of experience and the patience to really heavily rework a photo, I often try my hand at images that a lot of morphers would pass on. But I'd still probably have passed on trying to morph that green dress. from a morphing perspective, all I see is the entire chest area completely filled with small fabric folds, and every single one of them is going to be a pain to work with. but... i could almost see taking the image on, just to see if i could defeat it hehe. Wouldn't recommend that pic for a begining morpher in a million years though. you did a good morph of it, it's just a rough pic.
the second morph is really good.