Lomo 3D

I've been a fan of red/blue 3D pictures for years. If you're into them you can easily build up a good collection from the web. So six months after buying the Lomo Action Sampler the thoughts of making a 3D picture out of the shots came on a wet Sunday in October. Who needs to buy an expensive stereo camera when you can be resourceful. These are the first efforts and took a couple of hours messing about. Not brilliant but it shows the possibilities...

   

How I made them  1. Select a suitable a print of four Lomo Action photos. You will need two images with only slight differences in them. The top two are usually best. 2. Scan the photo into your computer. 3. Open the scan in your image editing software. I use trusty Paint Shop Pro 5. 4. The tricky bit now is to copy and paste two of the scenes that are exactly the same size. Adjust the colour, because the Lomo Action prints do give irregular exposures. They do have to be the same size otherwise the results are weird. 5. Save as 24 bit uncompressed Truevision targa files - extension is *.tga - in the same directory. I set up a new temporary directory called temp1 on the C: drive.  6. Now make one red/blue picture using JAC freeware (details below). This runs in MS-DOS. I'd already copied the JAC files into my C:\Windows\Commands directory. I use Windows 98 so I opened a MS-DOS window and changed directory to where the two *.tga files were saved. Don't use DOS commands much these days so it was like going back in time.  7. I typed in jac treer.tga treel.tga treerb.tga. It worked. That translates as jac (the program to execute) teer.tga (right hand image) treel.tga (left hand image) treerb.tga (the new image). 8. To put them on this web page I went back into PaintShopPro and converted the images to jpeg format, extension *.jpg.

JAC ( Joergs Anaglyph Composer ) to make 3D anaglyphs  Is available from Joerg Schrammel and thanks must go to him for writing an excellent compact program. Download and read the instructions. Even I managed this. There is a Linux version as well of this software.