PhotoProjector

Purpose of the program

System requirements

Glossary of Terms

How to use the program:

Beginners
(Please read)

Lenticular sheet type

Image type

Loading images

Output image settings (image size, resolution, alignment marks, type, arrangement)

Output image settings (interpolation and canvas rotation)

Print image

Animated GIF creation

3D

Flip

Barrier-screen

Pitch Test

Two-flip image (settings)

3D image (settings)

Printing in Photoshop

Resulting file size limitation

Troubleshooting

Purpose of the program

PhotoProjector creates interlaced images for lenticular sheets and barrier-screens.

Fig. 1. Lenticular sheet with interlaced image

PhotoProjector is designed for combined use with other programs such as Adobe Photoshop. PhotoProjector doesn't create the viewpoints of 3D scene or animation images. This program creates interlaced images only.

Formats of input files are BMP, PNG, TIFF, JPEG in Greyscale, RGB colour mode, TIFF in CMYK and RGBA colour mode. Formats of output files are TIFF in colour mode of source images. Multilayered TIFF is not supported.

How to make a TIFF with RGBA using Photoshop (RGBA is RGB with alpha channel, alpha channel is transparent)

Let's you save and load selections. You can edit alpha channels using any of the editing tools. When a channel is selected in the Channels palette, foreground and background colors appear as grayscale values. Storing selections as alpha channels creates more permanent masks than the temporary masks of Quick Mask mode. You can reuse stored selections or even load them into another image. (About masks and alpha channels from Photoshop Help).

How to convert RGBA TIFF to PSD with transparent

You can use my action Transparency.atn.

Open Action palette (Window->Action), load Transparency.atn (it's located in the same place as photoprojector.exe):

Open RGBA TIFF file and play Alpha-Channel action: