Tutorials on Lenticular Printing
Learn by examples, it’s easy and it’s fun
Although lenticular printing has been around for over a century, it never becomes popular until the last decade. Part of the reason is that people are keeping the knowledge to themselves and do not want to share it. With the unselfish desire to promote this industry, ViCGI is releasing a series of articles and vidoes, from the basic to the advanced.
This tutorial provides a solid foundation for 3D lenticular printing. It covers essential concepts, including how to build a 3D scene, capture images as lenticular sequences, align images to a focal point, select the appropriate lens, conduct a pitch test, and interlace the images using Photoshop.
The previous video covers the fundamentals and involves some detailed, time-consuming steps in Photoshop. If you're not interested in the technical details and just want to create a 3D lenticular print using your smartphone, this video is for you. It achieves the same result as the earlier video but saves you the mental effort, so you can skip the complex math and focus on the fun part!
This tutorial is the ultimate crash course - your foundation for creating mind-blowing lenticular prints! It is a comprehensive tutorial for making a 2-image lenticular flip. The video talks about choosing the images, ways to avoid ghosting, buying the lens, pitch test, interlacing the images using Photoshop, and finally how to laminate using double sided adhesive.
This tutorial is a supplemental to the above video for making a 3-image flip instead of a 2-image flip.
This tutorial builds on the previous two videos. While the earlier videos explain the inner working behind a lenticular flip, this one takes a more simplified, “black-box” approach. With just a few drag-and-drop actions and mouse clicks using a free online lenticular interlacing app, you can achieve the same result - without needing to understand the technical details. It also demonstrates how to bypass lamination by using a picture frame.
This tutorial explains how to transform a standard 2D image into a 3D lenticular print. It covers key concepts like image selection, parallax, viewing distance, and more.
This is a how-to video instead of a tutorial. The video shows how to apply a lenticular book cover to a book so they can be aligned precisely.
This article demystifies the arcane knowledge around lenticular printing from a printer’s perspective - a must-read for printers who want to start a lenticular printing business.
This article tries to demystify 3D lenticular printing by explaining the underlying working of the interlacing algorithm. By understanding how pictures are interlaced you will be able to appreciate the principles of lenticular printing better. This knowledge will also help you identify with the terminology used in many other lenticular software products.
In this article, the author explains the theory of how to convert a flat 2D picture into layered images for 3D lenticular printing by using only the basic functions of Photoshop in a systematic manner. By understanding the theory behind the conversion you will become confident in creating successful lenticular prints; whether you are using ad hoc software or Photoshop. Users of other graphics editing software such as Gimp or PhotoImpact will also benefit from this tutorial.
A pitch test is a critical step for calibrating the deviation of the lenticular lens and printer specifications. This article teaches you how to create pitch test patterns or stripes using the basic functions of Photoshop and Excel.
Through the analysis of changing patterns among different anaglyphic images and the relationship of their focal planes, this paper derives a way to measure the stereoscopic effect of an image. By using statistical analysis, an empirical value of the stereoscopic effect is then defined. Based on the principles of a photographic camera in 5 different scenarios, the author infers that the stereoscopic effect formulas derived are most suitable for mid-range photography. With some simple assumptions and approximation, the formula can also be extended to short distance and micro distance photography. The suitability and the impact of the parameters are then further discussed. All the topics discussed in this paper are applicable to the 3D effect of lenticular printing.
This article provides a quantitative analysis of the relationship between viewing distance and perceived depth on any 3D lenticular printing project.
People in the 3D industry, especially in lenticular printing, normally use anaglyph images as a tool to test and fine-tune their 3D rendering. This article presents a very simple way of making an anaglyph image using the most basic functions in Photoshop on two similar images with binocular disparity.
Before buying your lenticular sheets, it is always a good idea to know their technical specifications. It is the purpose of this article to describe their attributes so that you can determine which spec is most suitable for your DIY lenticular projects.
The main focus of this article is to address the ghosting challenge in lenticular printing and introduce a simple method called “Finger Finding” to detect the area where potential ghosting shadows will occur most often. It concludes by discussing ways to avoid potential ghosting issues in lenticular printing.
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