Although stereoscopic photography has been a practice for more than a century and a half, the technique of using two slightly differently positioned pictures to make one has received an update to modern times. Instead of configuring specialty stereoscopic equipment, Adobe Photoshop can provide the same effect digitally. You will need two pictures taken on any camera at any setting, and then you can manipulate Photoshop's tools and features to create your own "stereo" design.
Instructions
1. Open Adobe Photoshop. Click the "File" menu. Click "New." Enter "Stereoscopic" into the "Name" box. Enter the "Width" and "Height" for the image canvas in their appropriate boxes. Remember that the width must be the combined width of the two photos set side by side.
2. Pull down the dimensions menus for each and select "inches." Pull down the "Background Contents" menu and select "White." Click the "OK" button to open the canvas.
3. Click the "File" menu again. Click "Open." Browse to where the two photos are located. Double-click each image to open it into a new tab on the workspace. If both photos are in the same place, press and hold down the "Ctrl" key, click each picture once and click the "Open" button.
4. Click the tab of the leftmost image, which is the image taken with the camera's focus on the left part of the landscape or subject. Click the "Select" button. Click "All."
5. Press the "Ctrl" and "C" keys to copy the image. Click into the "Stereoscopic" tab and press the "Ctrl" and "V" keys to paste in the picture. Drag the picture so it aligns with the top-left of the "Stereoscopic" canvas. To adjust the canvas length and/or width, click the "Image" menu and select "Canvas Size." Enter new dimensions as required.
6. Click the "X" of the tab you just copied a picture from to close it. Repeat the copy and paste process with the other picture. Drag the picture so it exactly abuts the first picture. Make sure there is no overlap and that no white Photoshop canvas shows through the crack between the two images.
7. Right-click any of the layers in the "Layers" palette on the right side of the screen. Select "Flatten Image." The pictures combine into one single stereoscopic image.
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