Digital Stereo Photography - software question

I'd like to experiment with 3-D (aka 'stereo') digital photography: take two

photos of a scene, one 'left' and one 'right', each with the same

resolution/size and proportions. Then take the resulting two jpgs, and combine

them into one jpg, composed of the 'left' and 'right' original photo, with

the 'right' photo on the right-hand side and contiguous to the left photo. I

would 'free view' the photo on a computer monitor, or perhaps get stereo photo

viewing glasses if appropriate to view the monitor image.

 

I know this can be done in Photoshop, but that is too complicated of a software

package for me to deal with, and too expensive. What software costing $100 or

under would enable that to be done easily (how about Picasa, or Picture Window

Pro, or ... other)?

 

What would be the easiest way to perform the stitching of the two photos and

saving as one, using your suggested software program?

 

Thank you.

Take a look at http://www.stereoscopy.com for a lot of good info on this topic.

easy and not too expensive....

LEREO makes a cheap 3D lens or you can use a macro plate and slide two images away from one another (by about an inch).

 

Then View them using a no glass techniques known as Free-Vision Fusion (Cross-eyed method)

or treat them with a free piece of software (Callipygian 3D) to generate the classic blue/red images and view them with Anaglyph 3D Glasses.

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LINKS:

http://www.callipygian.com/3D/?fromApplication

http://www.3dstereo.com/

oops the lens is LOREO...

I use Qimage to make my stereo pairs. To make a 4x6 stereo pair, I make each image 3x4 and place them side by side. Also if you are using a Lanc controller and sometimes the zoom focus isn't aligned, the you can rezoom it in Qimage to match your pairs. Very powerful tool for $50.00

Here is an example of stereo triplet "RLR" for either free viewing or using an aid done in Qimage. The beauty is that your original images aren't changed permantely and can be adjusted to be made to fit on the fly.

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Stereo Photo maker is great software, last I knew it was still free.

 

http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/

as far as viewing on you computer try the cheap cardboard folders made by loreo.

 

http://www.3dstereo.com/viewmaster/lor-lite.html .

 

They are also nice to give away, so you can share your photos.

A big thank you to all - Stephen, Denis, Gregory, RM, and Glen! I have a lot of research to do on the links and ideas you put forth. I'm sure it will be fun.

Thanks again.

Joe