How to make 3D images

making anaglyph images in photoshop

• You can look at anaglyph 3D images by following this link for an overview of how these types of images seems.

• Anaglyph images should be looked by using glasses of 2 colors i.e. red & cyan otherwise, effect will not be displayed.

Steps -->

1.  Download any version of photoshop or any other image manipulation tool if you don't have any.

2.  Take 2 pictures of same object by slight horizontal distance (~1 inch) or download them from internet.

I have taken these 2 -

Left

Right

  3.  Open these images in image manipulation tool you are using. Paths shown below are of photoshop.

  4.  Make both images grayscale (Image -> Mode -> Grayscale)
  5.  A message box will open. Click on Discard button.

Left(grayscale)

Right(grayscale)

6.  Only for Left image (Image -> Mode -> RGB)
      Create a new layer above the left photo and fill it with cyan color. Its hex code is #00FFFF or equivalent RGB is R-000 G-255 B-255.
      Duplicate this layer and go to (Image -> Adjust -> Invert). Red color will be displayed with hex code #FF0000 and RGB as R-255 G-000 B-000.
7.  For Right image-
       (Select -> All)
       (Edit -> Copy)
8.  Open Left image-
       (Edit -> Paste)
       Place the pasted layer in the bottom. It will appear below previous 3 layers.
9.  Close Right image.
10.  Now, there are 4 layers in total. Position them as-
       Bottom one is Right photo.
       Above it is the red layer.
       Above it is the Left photo.
       Top one is cyan layer.
11.  To check the alignment of 2 photo pairs-
                Turn off red and cyan layers by clicking on eye icon.
                Adjust the opacity of Left photo to 50%.
                If both the photos are not on the same vertical plane, shift up/down appropriately.
12.  Change the opacity of Left photo back to 100%.
13.  Turn on cyan layer and change its blending mode to screen.
14.  Merge the cyan and Left photo layers together.

Image will look like this-

Cyan tinted image

15.  Turn off this new cyan layer(Click on eye icon).
16.  Turn on red layer and change its blending mode to screen(similar to cyan layer in step 13).

Image will look like this-

Red tinted image

17.  Turn on all cyan/Left layer and change its blending mode to multiply.

• Put on glasses (red on left & cyan on right) and you should now see the anaglyph.

It will look like this-

Anaglyph 3D

~TIPS~

• At the end, merge all the layers by Flatten Image.
• Save file as JPEG image with the image quality according to your choice.
• There is no need to save as photoshop document file(.psd).

You can skip the Desaturation part shown above in steps 4 & 5.
Doing so will create a colored image as a result in last step i.e. step 17.

It will look as-

Colored Anaglyph

• Colored anaglyph is not much clear as in this image, cyan & red colors of effect gets mixed with original colors of image. So, to view nice 3D effects, convert image to grayscale.