Your own 3D image

While stereoscopic effects like Cyan/Red 3D are often created with fancy photography tricks, we’ll be creating one today with simple trick image editing. Dive right on in and see how simple it can be, with a simple version for Photoshop beginners, and an optional second part for users that want to give their image a little more oomph. Keep reading!

A Simple Red & Cyan 3D Effect

The technical term for a 3D image is an Anaglyph, which are usually created by photographing a subject from two separate vantage points, then combining the images. Today, we won’t be doing that, but we will achieve the same effect by digging through our image channels. Open up a worthy image and let’s get going!

For this demonstration i will be using Adobe photoshop, but you can use any image editing software you like.

 Step 1: Take two photos of anything you like,one for the right eye and another some distance apart for the left eye.

Step 2: convert both of your images to Grayscale.

Image>mode>grayscale.

 Step 3: Convert the left eye image back to RGB.

 Image>mode>RGB color. 

Step 4: Enable the channel window( i.e if it is not), then select the green and blue colors only by holding the shift key.

Step 5: Now, copy and paste the right eye image on top of the left eye image and enable the RGB channel.  After this you might see some outlines of red in your image.

Step 6: Now reposition and give some final touches to the images so as to give it a perfect 3D look.