Just put the lenses that are included to lenticular tool kits on printed interlaced files and you will see 3d and flip effects. With lentigram you dont need to produce a master file but you can generate the interlaced image at the exact decimal pitch measured using the pitch test tool, e. To calculate the visual pitch for a job, you must perform a test called pitch calibration. The cgl has lenticular sheets in the portrait orientation with 60 lpi. And, last but not least, the pitch will, of course, depend of the viewing distance of the lenticular image. Choosing the correct lenticular lens sheet micro lens. An interlaced image can be generated with different types of bleeding registration marks to. Knowing how to perform a pitch test properly is the one of the most important steps in creating a great lenticular image. To discover the resolution of your printer, press change printer button, at the lower part of the dialog and choose the necessary printer.
For good lenticular prints you will need at least 8 separate images. The humaneyes software includes a test patch for quickly analyzing and matching the image resolution to the exact pitch of the lens. Getting a 3d lenticular image resized so that it would precisely align to the lenticular pitch test result is crucial to get a quality 3d image. You can do this by running the calibration test in matlab. You will be able to scrutinize and test them as good samples. After receiving the lenticular sheets, i tried some free specialized lenticular software.
Software and digital instructions are available to help first time users successfully create their first lenticular print. Switch to the lenticular tab and press generate pitch. That means that interlacing software assumes the main care about the quality of your future lenticular picture. These images are mounted under a lenticular lens, creating a 3d andor animation effect. The next step is calibrating your new lenticular display.
In the interlacer module, click the add button to load the images into the application. Video category below to bring up a list of available video titles to watch. Lenticular software 3dz v7 at the centre of every lenticular software is the interlacer. Printers, advertising studios, photo studios, photographers might find it a useful and cost effective solution that will extend their business in a new dimension. Most interlacing software packages have the capability to print a pitch test. This article teaches you how to create the pitch test pattern or stripes using the basic functions from photoshop and excel. To improve quality switch off high speed printing and edge smoothing. The calibration image is used to align your specific printer to the specific lens you are mounting your image to. I usually use 16 separate images taken from 16 different points. Demonstration video of how to print and use a pitch test in order to find the lpi number for superflip. Lic also has a calibration image pitch test generator. Starting lenses per inch, lpi starting value of lenticular sheet frequency, this is the lpi frequency of the top strip.
My test image used alternating 6 pixels of black and six pixels of white. The book includes the real interlaced printed files of pitch test for 60 lpi lenses, 3d picture and flip picture. Lenticular imaging can be managed effectively using existing graphic software applications such as adobe photoshop and adobe after effects. These lenses were designed for 3d images and a viewing distance of 15 feet. On going through the list of updates i did not see any related update release.
The matlab file which you downloaded on the main page contains the code adjusted for the dimensions of one particular screen and lenticular sheet, so you will probably need to adjust the settings for your screen by calibrating. A wide variety of 3d lenticular software options are available to you, such as windows, dos, and mac. Printers, advertising studios, photo studios and photographers will find 3dmasterkit a useful and cost effective solution for expanding their business in a new dimension, increasing quality and productivity of generated 3d images and lenticular products. But if you have followed our tutorials and prefer to just use the bare bone photoshop to accomplish a 3d printing project then you will need to create a pitch test pattern by yourself. Lenticulars interlacing with superflip superflip is a free lenticular software available from vuethru. As i wanted to experiment with a startfreefirst approach, i experimented gimp. Interlacing with superflip 3d stereoscopic photography. But if you dont own a lenticular printing software you can still use photoshop to create the pitch. It calibrates the printer, media and lenticular sheet used for a particular image. We will distinguish the visual pitch and the mechanical or absolute pitch. Features pitch test measurement wizard adjust your project with the pitch number of the lenses used.
The pitch calibration procedure is described in detail in the. You dont need that much to make your own lenticulars, mainly an inkjet printer and some lenticular lenses. Interlacing software is the most important software for lenticular technology because this software codes the frames and creates the file that you will print. Photoprojector interlacing software making lenticular 3d. This is why the visual pitch will be the best result at the given viewing distance of the final image. The pitch test must be performed with the pitch patterns in close parallelism to the lenticular lens array. The leader in lenticular event photography and social sharing. It comes together with a pitch test software to measure the pitch of a lenticular lens in relation to your inkjet printer resolution. Pitch test with superflip 3d stereoscopic photography.
Click this link for more information on the creators of the super flip. Includes both flip and 3d projects to help guide you through the basics of lenticular printing. Inkjet printing, including the newer flatbed printers, will need large format lenticular lens sheets 60 lpi or less. This allows for the effortless mixing of motion, flips, zooms and 3d all in one layered project. Providing software, training and supplies to the industry since 2001. Pitch testing the lenticular lens to the imaging device will determine the interlacing pitch. To find the correct correspondence, you use the humaneyes lenticular software to perform a pitch test on the printer that will be used when printing the 3d interlace image. Printers, advertising studios, photo studios and photographers will find 3dmasterkit a useful and cost effective solution for expanding their business in a new dimension, increasing quality and productivity of generated 3d images and lenticular. Step of lenses per inch, lpi step of frequency increase for next strip. Using keys the user can control the visibility, opacity, parallax, position, scale and rotation of every layer. The number of pitch test strips to generate per image. The lenticular interlacing, therefore, is a key process in achieving any kind of effect, whether flip, animation, 3d or any other.
Before interlacing it is necessary to determine the exact size of the lens of the lenticular material, sheet or roll. For everybody working with 3d images and lenticular media, i created an interlacing software. The imposition scheme is based on the direction of the lenses, and thats also vital information for the designer as well. It is to create lenticular pictures where width, height and depth of the original image are maintained on the final print. For the pitch test use the same printer and materials you going to use for lenticular image printing. You will not be able to create good lenticular images unless you. Each imaging device can, and will, have a bit of variance. More preassure will give a shorter pitch and this is the reason why we recommend to print the pitch test. The exact resolution of your printer is also needed for interlacing. Customers will find a link, on the back of a printed target sample, to access all digital information and software for creating their first lenticular print. Switch to the lenticular tab and press generate pitch test button. However, more and more printers are using specific software applications to do the job. Power illusion offers a revolutionary new concept in lenticular design.
I did not really work as the free version was always limited feature wise. Pitch test function is available in demo program which is free for download and testing. The setting in the lens lpi field will be the center strip, this should be set to your best guess. The software describes how the 3dependable portrait producer converts your 3dependable dolly images into 3d lenticular print. Suppose we want to make a flip effect with these three images. Many integrated lenticular printing software such as photoprojector, imagiam, photoillustion,and superflip have builtin pitch test function. The test plate should be on either the second or third print unit which will be used for printing ink on the live job, and all other print units ahead of it also on impression with normal printing pressures. You dont need that much to make your own lenticulars, mainly an inkjet printer and some lenticular lenses with adhesive attached. Hi all, i am writing a piece of software that will generate a pitch test to be printed out and used for calibrating lenticular lenses.
The designer for example can only produce the final interlaced image if he knows the exact pitch values of the lenticular sheet, and that information has to come from a pitch test on the press. Lenticulars pitch test with superflip lenticulars are in my opinion the best way to view 3d pictures taken for example with a fujifilm finepix real 3d w3 camera. There are also dedicated software which can generate additional images from a stereo pair. I used 3dmasterkit from triaxes which has an easy pitch test page feature. I know there are many of them already out there, but i am more interested in learning the technical details, and i have a specific question. While prints are more vibrant, you have scaling problems that likely vary from machine to machine.
Lenticular picth will be very sensitive to variation in line width anything deviating more than a small fraction of a % from the lens pitch will show that banding. Given a lenticular plastic, a preferred observation distance and a printer, pitch calibration is a test whose result is the visual pitch value, which must then be used to interlace the images. The learning kit is designed to teach anyone how to interlace, print and attach a lenticular lens for both flip and 3d lenticular prints. You are also supposed to use the same paper for the pitch test and the. They have to be used together to get correct results.
A pitch test is nothing more than a calibration tool. Increment by the amount the pitch will vary by for each strip. The combination of direct printing on lenticular lenses with software that creates a registration file with a series of registration lines based on the necessary pitch test measurement is powerful. The calibration image is used to align your specific printer to the specific lens you are mounting your image to, creating the cleanest flip possible. For the 3d effect to truly work, the pitch of the lens measured in lenticules per inch, lpi and the resolution of the printer must be in synch.
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