3-D Effect Tutorial for PS CS3

A translateable tutorial that will easily show you how you can give your images an effect that looks like your looking at them with 3-d glasses (old ones of course).

I'm working with this picture of Caleb Landry Jones:



This tutorial works best, with gray images, a lot of colours will coverup the 3-d Effect we wish to go for. To get mine to be grey I used shortcut keys Shift+Control+U.



After your image is all set, we can start creating the 3-d effect. Let's start with our first colour, which can be whatever you like, but I'm sticking with the red & cyan shades which a typical old-fashioned 3-d glasses have. Duplicate your base layer, and then create a new layer in which you would fill with your first colour (Mine is red, #ff0000). Set this new layer to screen, and merge it down in to copy of your base image, your image will now look something like this:



Next, set the copy of your base image to darken. At first you wont see anything, but if you move the base layer copy you should see the outline of your image in a different colour show up. Your welcome to move the layer any which way you like (left, right, up, down), but its best that you dont move it too far away from the original image.



There are some parts that are bugging me, (his nose and mouth look a bit funny...) So I erased the colour parts that I didnt like with the eraser tool. I just used a 60px circle brush with an opacity set to 42%.



For the second colour, just repeat what you did for the first, except with a different hue (I'm going with #00fcff), & clean up if needed. For the second colour I suggest moving the colour outline in the opposite direction of the first one you did. (For example, the first time I moved the red colour upwards a few pixels, the second time I moved the cyan colour to the left a few pixels).Your image now sports a funky 3-d effect! I suggest when saving your image, that you save it in .png format. This format keeps all of the images quality.