anaglyph 3D stereoscopic

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All the following images were produced in the same way. First two photographs are taken of the same view at approximately the same distance apart as the eyes. The prints were scanned in, and brought into Adobe Photoshop. Save each image as left and right, so you don't get them confused when colouring them up.

Then in 'Hue/Saturation' under the 'Adjust' menu, click on the 'Colourise' check box. Remember that your right eye image will be in red, so it appears in shades of grey through the green right hand filter of the glasses, and the left image will be cyan/green to look grey through the red filter. You'll need to play around with the 'Lightness' slider, whilst wearing the anaglyph spectacles, to ensure that the red disappears through the red 'left' filter and vice versa. The 'Hue' slider conveniently defaults to red immediately on setting up the colourise check box, and you'll find the green colour is nearly as simple: just drag the slider nearly all the way to the right.

When you're happy that the colours work OK, open both document windows, and with the move tool just drag one on top of the other, so they're in the same window. Then simply make the top layer 50% transparent, so they are of equal strength.

Once this is done both images are of course a little weak, so (saving a copy in case of accidents!) flatten the image under the 'Layers' menu, then under 'Brightness/Contrast' up the contrast and maybe the brightness to create a perfect three dimensional image when viewed through the 3D spectacles.

If anyone has better ways of making these images, or knows how to convert coloured pictures to 3D as anagltphs without losing the colour information, e-mail me.

1949 Triumph Roadster 2000

Bookshop in Hertford

Hellebores

The Salisbury, Hertford, with montaged glass and bread.

Trebah Gardens, Cornwall.

Old stereoscopic postcard converted to anaglyph.

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