3D Effect (Photoshop Process)

From my research into the condition 'stereo blindness', I was inspired to use my weakness which is being unable to view the world in 3D and having a lack of depth perception, into my work. From looking into 3D images, I found that they create a distorted effect of depth, due to two images overlaying each other, but with minor separation. I wanted to further evaluate this, by creating my own 3D images. This allowed me to further understand my condition, how the 3D images work and why they don't work for me. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsCU4wHdmg

I found this tutorial and started creating my own photography that captured the world into 3D images. I feel that this brought to attention the world from a different perspective, my perspective. 

My process with inspiration from existing method. 

I began by opening the image into Adobe Photoshop. I had taken the image in monochrome, using a Canon Camera. I felt that this image would be ideal for this experiment because it’s a recognisable and common word to be found, “Slow”.

I started by creating a copy of the layer, 

which was achieved by clicking onto the 

layer and then pressing down at the 

same time, ctrl + J. 

I then right clicked on to one of the layers “layer 1”, and then at the top clicked onto “blending options”. 

After that has been achieved this tab, titled “layer style” should appear. 

Next I went to the “Advanced Blending” options. I wanted the first layer to be red, so I achieved that by un-selecting “G” standing for green and “B” standing for blue.

The red layer being achieved was made visible by the example square.

This action created a red layer like shown. To see this I un-selected the viability icon on the other un-changed layer. 

I renamed the layer “RED” for future purposes. 

I repeated the previous sets, however, I wanted this layer to be cyan. This was achieved by instead of un-selecting green and blue, I un-selected “R” = red.  

I now have two layers, one being red and the other being cyan. I intended on creating these colours because they are the most commonly used colours for creating 3D. 

I renamed the layer “BLUE” for future purposes. 

When both layers are made visible they appear like this, because the two separate, different coloured layers merge together. 

To begin creating the 3D effect, I clicked on the “RED” layer. I started moving it to the left by holding down ctrl and then pressing the left key, about 6 times to achieve this example. I repeated these steps for the “Blue”, however, I moved it to the right, using the right key.  

I wanted it to seem more distorted, so I continued to move the two layers apart.