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RussianCreating 3D Pictures (Anaglyphs)
The type of camera and of any other equipment used is not important; it only takes a little practice you can take source pictures yourself and then create a 3D image from them in Zoner Photo Studio.
How to Take Source Photos for 3D Pictures
You need to take two practically identical shot of the same subject from two angles that are about the same distance apart as typical human eyes (which in practice means to shoot the scene, shuffle about two and a half inches (or about seven centimeters) to the right or left, and shoot it again). It’s important to make sure the scene does not move and does not get a chance to change between shots, as will happen with quickly moving clouds, moving cars, etc. 3D photos of faraway subjects like landscapes will not stand out well with the normal horizontal distance between shots; use a larger distance for these.
Assembling a 3D Picture in Zoner Photo Studio
Once you have suitable source shots available, you simply need to use Zoner Photo Studio’s 3D Photo wizard to create a pseudo-3D image. A special algorithm melds the two source photos into one in such a way that, when viewed with special glasses with one red and one blue lens, they look 3D. This is because each eye perceives only a part of the photo. The expert term for such images is anaglyphs.
After you select both source images, Zoner Photo Studio tries to automatically find shared points, using which it takes care of precisely joining the images. You can manually edit, delete, and add shared points. It’s important to correctly mark which of the photos was taken on the right and which on the left, because if their positions are reversed, the 3D effect will not be visible in the resulting anaglyph.
During the next step, the actual creation of the anaglyph, you can still transpose the right and left shots, or manually correct the positions and rotations for the shots set by the 3D photo wizard. There are four types of anaglyphs provided: black-and-white, color, semi-color, and optimized.
Note: some persons with vision defects may not perceive anaglyphs as 3D images—they will see them as flat or only see one half or the other.