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"Eye saver"? Anaglyph? Haha .. Not for me. After just a few minutes of wearing anaglyph glasses my eyesight feels so out of whack, it's horrible. On the other hand, cross-eye viewing is extremely comfortable for me. I once held my eyes crossed for 4 hours straight while I looked at a continuous stream of 3D images, and my eyes were fine at the end of it.

Even with a normal monitor you can overlay the left and right halves to view and edit them as an anaglyph in Photoshop. It's great for 3D editing although you need to use another mode to do accurate color adjustments. It's an eye saver as you can view all your tools normally without having to cross and uncross your eyes. My tutorial is at: http://www.3dphoto.net/forum/index.php/topic,11002.0.html Anaglyph does have the advantage over interlaced in that it's zoom independent. When working interlaced I have to switch between masks as I change zoom levels, and it only works for 12.5, 25, 50 and 100% zooms.

Randy, thanks. I'd love to get a passive 3D monitor some day, but for now I just have a normal monitor. When I'm working I generally have both the left eye and right eye images open at the same time, laid out R/L for cross-eye viewing. Scott, thanks. I agree about the photo being exciting to work on! As for the depth maps, the only part of the image converted with depth maps was the explosion, and Chris made the maps. He experimented with a few different ones before getting a good result. I'm not sure what program he used, but I think it was Photoshop, and I think he used a pattern of multi-gray-shaded dots for part of it, painted parts of it manually, and used a B/W version of the explosion itself as depth map for parts of it.

So awesome. What a fantastic and rare photo from film making history! Made all the better by your fine work. How did you create the depth maps?

Layer groups are very useful for 3D editing in Photoshop. If you make a Left and Right group and lay them on top of each other you can then set the blend modes so they can be viewed in anaglyph. Or if you have a passive monitor you can use an interlaced layer mask pattern to view your edits in 3D.

This had a couple of "firsts" for me, in my own learning .. my first time implementing a few valuable tips I picked up from Ferry Zijlmans. #1 was the fact that I used layer groups. In the past I'd often used layers, but not layer groups. It was very helpful to group all the layers of individual objects together. #2, it was my first time re-creating both the left eye and right eye. In the past I'd always used the original untouched image as the final left-eye image, and I had every intention of doing that in this case, until I got close to the end of the conversion and I was struggling to repair multiple retinal rivalries from the fact that so much of the background in my constructed right-eye image had been "manufactured" to fill-in the blanks from my shifts. I decided to cut out all the objects in the left eye image too, so that I could use the same background on both sides (with the exception of the necessary skews, of course). So I didn't exactly do a completely new left-eye image, but I sort of did.

Oh, that's the 'Hollywood Nudes in 3D". I own that, but never realized the photos were by Harold Lloyd. Interesting.

Really? I didn't know. That's cool. Do you own it?

Harold Lloyd was a Stereo Photographer. There is an anaglyph book of his images.

Thanks Maecky! And Tom, I've been looking at this photo in 2D for years and never noticed that cat! So in this 3D conversion I tried to really set it apart from the sheet, and also pull the tail forward of the window!

Very good!

Very nice work! I didn't see it the first time, but I notice there's a cat's behind in the window too!

Thanks very much Wim!

Nice serie Ted!

The best!

Very nice hobby isnít?

Thanks Futark. You're right. Correction made.

Sorry, the movie 's name is "Safety Last!", not "First"... :)

Yes indeed! Great meeting you too. I had a lot of fun at both club meetings. Hope to do it again sometime. Keep in touch. Friend me on Facebook, if you're on there.

Glad I finally got to meet you Tuesday evening.