How to Make Lenticular Prints With Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop can do a lot of things, including making lenticular prints. If you want to learn how to make a lenticular print in this program, look no further than this article.

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    Arrange a scene such that the main object is about 4-feet from the camera with some objects at the front and some at the back.
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    Each picture should be about 0.4-in apart.
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    Adjust the opacity of some layers and align the common point to the same x-y coordinates.
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    Use the crop tool to crop out the empty space on the left.
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    Fill the rest of the area with these white-black stripes.
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    Highlight and select the Layer Mask layer and paste over the content of the clipboard.
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    Move the whole pattern 2-pixels to the right. CTRL-A and CTRL-C to put the shifted content to the clipboard.
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      Things You'll Need

      • To make a 3D lenticular print you will need to have the following items ready.
      • A digital camera with at least 2 mega pixels.
      • A slider bar to mount the camera so pictures can be taken along a straight line. If you don't have a slider bar, consider tying the camera to # 1/18th scale die-cast model car.
      • Adobe Photoshop or any other graphics editing program such as Gimp.
      • A lenticular sheet with adhesive backing and known line density, 40 lines per inch, for example

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      References

      1. 3D Lenticular Printing Interlacing Algorithm Illustrated Using Photoshop

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