photoshop workshop 3D image

For our task today we were asked to create 3D images from photos that we had taken in todays lesson. 3D has made quite a dramatic impact in recent years, it is featured in almost every film that comes out, it is almost like that is becoming the original film instead of them being in 3D. In photos it allows the viewer to interact with the image, it makes the picture really stand out and give its quite a dramatic effect.

There are a series of instructions that must be followed for an image to look 3D, they are;

 First take a photo of what you want with your right eye, and then do the same with your left eye, this way you are getting a view from each eye. This is the first step of getting the image in 3D.

  Unlike this image you need to try and get the image as similar as possible, The person in this photo would not stop moving which can change the end result quite a lot, the image may not match up and so on.
 As you can see from the images they do not look similar but it was as close as i could get, I'm not sure if it was just me but i found it much harder shooting from the left eye, it just didn't feel right.

Once you have the two images in photoshop, copy one of the picture onto the other picture so they overlaying each other, once that is done you can begin to manipulate the image.

 

First select the top layer and go on image, adjustments and click on levels, if done correctly a graph should show up which will allow to change your image into 3D.

Once levels has been selected click on the option channel and select red, this is the first colour that will allow you to see in 3D, once that is selected change the output level to 0 that way you are making it a solid colour.

Once that is done you can do the same for green and blue, change the output levels for each of them and click ok. However when changing the green and blue be sure to select the bottom layer so that you are not just changing one layer, it will not change to 3D otherwise.

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Once those have been changed re-select the top layer and select screen on the sidebar, if all the instructions have been done correctly then the image should look 3D in the end result.