Post your 3D pictures - Tutorial

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GT5 3D pictures Tutorial

Okay, first off I want to say I am no expert on this, and that there are probably better ways to do this.

For any 3D photo you want to produce, you're going to shoot two images. One will be the left eye's image, and the other the right eye's image.

Simply take one photo and then without changing the angle or settings, move the camera slightly to the right and take another photo. The first one will be your left eye and the second one your right. Think how much distance you have between your eyes, this is how you should judge the distance for the left and right photo.

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It may not look that different, but look at the objects on the sides, notice they aren't in the same place. Like the GT billboard on the left.

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Bring them both into one document, I've named the layers since I usually get confused as to which ones which. If you toggle the top layer on and off now, you will see a bigger difference.

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You can leave it as it is, or if you want to crop them you can do so now. By cropping the image when the layers are superimposed you don't have to waste any time trying to get the cropping tool aligned perfect.

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Now you have to adjust the width to accomadate both layers side-by-side. Go to Image>Canvas size and change the width to 200%.

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You can now move the layers into place. The left eye goes left and right goes right. (duh)

You can if you wish, add a black line through the middle to make them easier to view.

Finally post your 3D pictures.

How to View
To view these 3D images, you have to cross your eyes. You should see three pictures of the same image, if not you've crossed your eyes too much or too little. Concentrate on the middle pic, you should now see the picture in 3D. The first time you try this it will be difficuilt, but once you get it you won't forget. Like riding a bicycle :)

Don't try this for too long if your new to it, or you may get headaches.

Here are some of mine, they aren't perfect since I haven't tried this much. Best not to enlarge them.
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Post yours :)
 
These pictures give me a headache trying to look at them correctly. I'm kind of glad because it makes me not want a 3DTV because those give me headaches as well.
 
I can get the 3 pics, however they are all out of focus to me however I still get abit of 3d. I think it is just practise to work out your eye muscles so you get the full effect.
 
At first I thought it was going to be another one of those red and cyan filtered images... which would have make more sense, but they don't really work either
 
If you use cross-eyed method, you are supposed to put left image on the right, right image on the left. That's why no one can see it in 3D at the moment.
 
If you use cross-eyed method, you are supposed to put left image on the right, right image on the left. That's why no one can see it in 3D at the moment.

I get what your saying, some 3D cameras do this, some don't so I guess it probably doesn't matter. Some people have viewed them fine in my personal gallery, I can also view them fine no matter which way the images are. Try zooming out of your browser of you are having too much trouble.

Never could cross my eyes, here's another way

Yeah I think that's a similar method, I have tried it once or twice.

Here's another one, this one is quite easy.
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I did know about the whole 'left eye vs right eye' thing to create a 3D effect, often used for .gif images like Drift2Japan posted.
This was new for me though... Really cool stuff!

My thoughts while reading this thread:
Hmm interesting...
Wait, I do what? Cross my eyes and then what?

*crosses eyes*

Pff, I just see more cars and they're all blurry.
O wait, I have to focus on the middle one.

*crosses eyes again and focusses on middle picture*

HOLY ****!
 
THATS AMAZING :D

If you cant focus on it, make sure youre about 1 metre/meter away from your screen and cross your eyes so you can see three images THEY WILL BE VERY BLURRY, like completely out of focus.

Now concentrate on the centre image, when you can clearly keep it defined from the rest slowly move back and keep concenrating till they fall together.

The final image ends up looking tiny but it works really well :D
 
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