3D Photoshop Resources

Hi everyone – just wanted to share a few resources to go along with our very brief lesson on 3D images & Photoshop. Good luck on your Anaglyph extra credit assignment!

• Using the Repousee tool to extrude 2D images into 3D space
• Using the Repousee tool to extrude text into 3D space
• Creating an Anaglyph 3D image using Photoshop (detailed)

And here’s a quick overview on the basic steps to create an anaglyph image:

1. Take two photographs that are horizontally separated by about 2 inches (i.e. take a picture and the move your camera about 2 inches to the right and take another picture). Note that your subject is very important – try and have objects that exist in the foreground, mid ground and background of the image. Try and keep your closest subject about 4 feet away from the camera.
2. Open up both images in Photoshop.
3. Copy both images into the same document. Name the layers “left” and “right” accordingly so you don’t forget which is which!
4. Put the left image on top of the right image.
5. Remove the Red component from the right image. You can do this using the Image -> Adjustments -> Levels window. Select the Red channel and type the number 0 into the box that says “Output Levels” (so that it outputs from 0 to 0 in the red channel)
6. Do the same thing for the left image, but remove the green and blue channels.
7. Click on your left image and set the Layer Mode to “screen” – the layer mode dropdown is at the top of the Layers panel.
8. Put on your glasses! It probably won’t look great the first time You may need to adjust the position of your image to get it just right.
9. You may also need to desaturate your image if your subject has a lot of red or blues — you can do this by clicking on Image -> Adjustments -> Hue Saturation and dropping the saturation way down (-50 or so)