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Also found in the Lake Louise set ! :-)

Great!

Love it. Back in the fifties and sixties there were plenty of westerns to enjoy.

There's George Themelis's woodpecker.

So glad you're able to share these wonderful, rare images. Thank you.

Thank you Mary. Yes, she was cute. That's my step-mother Vicki as a child. Vicki died from cancer a few years ago, and I had just started learning 2D-3D conversion, and decided to do some conversions of her, and order a custom View-Master reel from Image3D. The results varied widely, as I was still learning. This one, I'm not entirely happy with, looking back on it now with more critical eyes than I had at the time. But it's decent. I remember putting a lot of time into it .. maybe 6 or 8 hours, meticulously selecting about 30 or 40 areas gradually from front to back and shifting them. The problem is, I was making an important mistake in one of the steps in Photoshop each time I would shift the selection, resulting in each shift being a different number of pixels. So instead of the depth progression being smooth and gradual, there's an odd sort of "wavy" look, particularly in the grassy lawn areas.

Thanks for the compliment. Glad you like it! This one, in case it's not obvious, is done intentionally bad, as a joke. What I mean is, normally when doing a 2D-3D conversion, the goal is to give the image realistic looking depth, with people and objects appearing to have actual girth. When a conversion is done poorly, a common criticism is that it looks "like a pop-up book" - there is depth, but only between flat things - the people "look like cardboard cutouts". I was just tossing the words around in my head one day and came up with the captions you see here. For the conversions, I intentionally gave them only one layer with no depth at all except the depth between the flat foreground and flat background. Now, to answer your question as simply as I can here, I do my conversions in Adobe Photoshop, using a very manual process that I call "The Select-and-Shift Method", which basically means you select something, and then move it to the side. I start by making a duplicate of my original photo and laying them side by side. The original image is used as the right eye image, and no changes are made to it. All alterations are made to the left eye image. If you, or anyone else reading this, is interesting in learning more, or trying to do a conversion yourself, I highly recommend you pick up the book "Mastering 2D to 3D Conversion" by Michael Beech. And join my Facebook group "Let's Convert 2D Images to 3D". I'm very new to the whole thing, and by no means am I claiming to be an expert at this. There are others in my group who are better than I am, and have been doing it longer. And there are a number of different methods for doing 2D-3D conversions. Mine is not the only method.

cute

Darling.....love it....how did you do that? John Boland, Exquire