RedGreen - Manual


Only five steps to create a 3D photo

  1. Create two photos of the same spot: One photo from the view of the left eye and one from the view of the right eye (Use a digital camera, a webcam etc.). After shooting the photo for the left eye, move the camera about 7cm to the right (approx. the distance between the eyes) and shoot the second photo. For wide landscapes you can even experiment with larger distances between the two photos.

  2. Load the image for the left eye in the section "Left Eye" and the image for the right eye in the section "Right Eye" of the main window. You can use the menu items "Open left" and "Open right" or the corresponding buttons in the toolbar of the window. If you select two photo files at the same time in the open file dialog box, both photos will automatically loaded into the "left" and "right" areas of the window.
    Alternatively you can even drag photos from the Finder directly into the "Left Eye" and "right Eye" area to load the photos.

  3. Search for a detail which is visible in both images and which should be projected to the monitor surface in the 3D view. Then mark the detail in both images (left and right) with a mouse click. You'll see a small cross marking the spot you've clicked. RedGreen calculates the 3D photo so that the spot that is marked in both photos will be placed virtually on the monitor surface in the 3D View. So objects which are located farther away are visible behind the monitor surface.
    Now Switch to the 3D view to see the 3D image.

  4. In the 3D view you can do the following corrections:
    A click with the Shift key held down makes larger changes, without the Shift key small changes. These effects can be also initiated using the menu "View" or with keyboard shortcuts.
    If the left and right images are not properly aligned vertically, you can correct this using these buttons.
    The depth of the image can be increased or decreased with these buttons. The virtual distance between you and the objects in the photo (when viewed through the 3D glasses) will be changed with these buttons.
    The corrections you've done with the buttons above can be undone with this button.
    Use this button to define the kind of 3D glasses the image should be calculated for. Red can be either left or right. Green or Blue must be then on the other side.
    Use this button to swap the left and right photos. This is useful if you loaded the photos into the wrong area (for the left and right eye). It is important to load the photos into the right area, because otherwise the 3D effect won't work.
    Use this button to select between monochrome and color output. You'll need red-cyan 3D glasses to benefit from color output.

  5. Now save the 3D photo to disk so you can view it with all graphics and photo applications.

(c) 2007 Alexander Clauss