How to Make Lenticular Prints With Photoshop

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Arrange a scene such that the main object is about 4-feet from the camera with some objects at the front and some at the back.

   Each picture should be about
   0.4-in apart. ,,, Adjust the opacity of some layers and align the common point to the same x-y coordinates. , Use the crop tool to crop out the empty space on the left. ,, Fill the rest of the area with these white-black stripes. ,,, Highlight and select the Layer Mask layer and paste over the content of the clipboard. ,, Move the whole pattern 2-pixels to the right.
   
   CTRL-A and CTRL-C to put the shifted content to the clipboard. ,,,,,
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   Step 2: Use the slider bar or a moving die-cast model car to take 9 consecutive pictures from left to right.

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   Step 3: Load the pictures into Adobe Photoshop on different layers of the same file with the first picture at the very bottom.

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   Step 4: Resize the image size to 720 dpi and about the width of your vertical lined lenticular sheet.

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   Step 5: Find a common point on all layers.

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   Step 6: Because of the alignment the top layer will be shifted to the right.

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   Step 7: Create a new file called Mask about 36 pixel wider then the just cropped image.

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   Step 8: In the new file

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   Step 9: draw a 2-pixel wide white vertical stripe

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    Step 10: then a 16-pixel wide black stripe.

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    Step 11: CTRL-A to select all the stripes; CTRL-C to copy them into the clipboard.

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    Step 12: Create a layer mask for each layer on the original image.

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    Step 13: Select the bottom layer then click on the Channel tab.

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    Step 14: Click on the Layer tab and select the next layer up.

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    Step 15: Go back to the Mask file.

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    Step 16: Repeat step 11 for the working layer instead of the bottom layer.

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    Step 17: Repeat the same steps for the other layers up.

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    Step 18: Merged all the layers.

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    Step 19: Print the merged file at 720 dpi.

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    Step 20: Laminate the lenticular sheet over the top of the printout.

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