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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. -
Use the slider bar or a moving die-cast model car to take 9 consecutive pictures from left to right. Each picture should be about 0.4-in apart.Advertisement -
Load the pictures into Adobe Photoshop on different layers of the same file with the first picture at the very bottom. -
Resize the image size to 720 dpi and about the width of your vertical lined lenticular sheet. -
Find a common point on all layers. Adjust the opacity of some layers and align the common point to the same x-y coordinates. -
Because of the alignment the top layer will be shifted to the right. Use the crop tool to crop out the empty space on the left. -
Create a new file called Mask about 36 pixel wider then the just cropped image. -
In the new file, draw a 2-pixel wide white vertical stripe, then a 16-pixel wide black stripe. Fill the rest of the area with these white-black stripes. -
CTRL-A to select all the stripes; CTRL-C to copy them into the clipboard. -
Create a layer mask for each layer on the original image. -
Select the bottom layer then click on the Channel tab. Highlight and select the Layer Mask layer and paste over the content of the clipboard. -
Click on the Layer tab and select the next layer up. -
Go back to the Mask file. Move the whole pattern 2-pixels to the right. CTRL-A and CTRL-C to put the shifted content to the clipboard. -
Repeat step 11 for the working layer instead of the bottom layer. -
Repeat the same steps for the other layers up. -
Merged all the layers. -
Print the merged file at 720 dpi. -
Laminate the lenticular sheet over the top of the printout.
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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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