Re: [photo-3d] 3D slides from Postcards

["Dan Shelley" <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ralph,

In all three of your images, the objects you manipulated appear to be
"flying" because only they were modified and not the surrounding items
that were on the same level (ground, etc...)

Another thing you mentioned was starting from the back and working
forward. I have found that working from the front to the back makes
much more realistic conversions. Just FYI.

Dan Shelley

----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Johnston/Linda Sherman <copley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject: [photo-3d] 3D slides from Postcards


> I was inspired by "3D Museum", Sugiyama's book of famous art
converted to
> 3D.  I went through my postcard collection and picked 16 of the best
> candidates for conversion.  I have uploaded three in LRL format for
either
> parallel or xeye viewing.  These are NOT anaglyph.
>
> http://www.egroups.com/files/photo-3d/ralph+johnston/
>
> 10694 canoeing the charles LRL.jpg
> marathon newton 1906 LRL.jpg
> the square york beach me LRL.jpg
>
> First I scan the postcards at 1200DPI.  I work in Corel PhotoPaint
and
> start off with two copies one over the other with the upper one
offset 3%
> to the right.  Then on the top image, I select 5 objects at varying
> distances to offset to the left.  The closest object is offset 3%
while the
> others are offset 20%, 40%, 60%, & 80% of this depending on the
apparent
> distance.  You must start from the back.  The objects are "locked"
against
> editing, and the un-offset originals are wiped out with the "rubber
stamp"
> or clone tool.
>
> I only did offsets, I need some more practice to do continuous
objects,
> such as railroad tracks running from front to rear.  These have to
be
> skewed.  Sugiyama did it on page 46, the Monet painting of two
engines in a
> station with RR tracks.
>
> Then the images are cropped, saved separately, then each
photographed full
> screen (1200 x 1600) for a slide using E100VS.  For the uploaded
files, I
> copied in the LRL format and resampled to 1200 pixels in total
width.  This
> allows 800 pixels to be viewed at once on most screens.
>
> I can answer either PhotoPaint 7 or (I think) PhotoShop LE questions
for
> anyone wanting to try this.
>
> Regards -Ralph
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