I use Adobe Photoshop, but the procedure should be similar. What other details do you have?

Mark H

Here is how to do 3D pictures with Adobe Photoshop straight from Nasa's internet site:

Step 1
Start out by picking a subject. People are a good place to begin because they tend to pop out in 3-D photos. Place the subject in a setting with a lot of angles and depth (not in front of a flat wall), and about 10 to 15 feet from the camera. Hold the camera steady by securing your elbows in your chest and snap a picture. Make sure your subject stays very still, then step just a tiny bit to the right, about the distance between your eyes or less, and take the same picture. When you slide over for the second shot, you -- and most importantly your camera -- should move in a parallel line.

Step 2
The next step involves transferring the images into photo-editing software. Any program will work as long it allows for red, blue and green color channels to be manipulated independently. The following instructions will refer to Adobe Photoshop. If your pictures are digital, just open them up in the software. If your pictures are hardcopies, transfer them to a computer using a scanner, or drop them off at a photo-developing store and ask for digital files (any file type will work).

Step 3
Once the left and right eye pictures are open, convert them both to grayscale by clicking on the 'Image' menu bar and selecting 'mode' then 'grayscale'. Next, assign the left eye image red, green and blue channels by going back to the 'Image' menu bar and selecting 'mode' then 'RGB' (the image will still appear gray). Do not repeat this step for the right eye image.

Step 4
Now you are ready to merge the left and right images. To begin, make sure the left eye image is still selected. Open the channels display menu by clicking on the 'Window' menu bar and choosing 'channels.' Highlight the blue and green channels (press the shift key to highlight both at the same time). Important: only the blue and green channels should be shaded blue. At this stage it doesn't matter which boxes to the left of the channels show eyeballs (eyeballs indicate which channels are displayed).

Step 5
Go back to the right eye image, select the whole thing (go to 'Select' menu bar, then press 'all') and copy it (go to 'Edit' menu bar, then press 'copy'). Switch back to the left eye image and paste (go to 'Edit' menu bar, then press 'paste'). Now, highlight the RGB color channel; an eyeball should appear in all four channel boxes. At this point, you should see a blurred red and blue picture. An alternative to this step is to use only the blue channel instead of the blue and green when pasting into the left eye image.

Step 6
You are almost done. But first the left and right eye images need to be better aligned. Start by highlighting only the red channel in the channels display menu (it should be shaded blue). The next step is crucial because it allows the red-tinted picture to be shifted over while the blue-tinted picture is still visible. Go to the RGB channel and click only on the square box to the left. An eyeball should appear in all four boxes, but only the red channel should be shaded. Now pick a point in the center of the picture to match up; for example, if a person is your subject, eye pupils are a good target. Zoom in on the target by selecting the magnifying glass icon in the tool bar then click on the target until it appears fairly large.

Step 7
Next, select the 'move' tool located in the upper right corner of the tool bar. Using the up and down arrow keys, slide the red-tinted image over until your target matches up and no longer shows any rings of color.

Step 8
Zoom back out. Objects toward the outside of your picture should still be haloed in red or blue. In other words, the overall goal in this step is to limit the colored tints as much as possible. To cut out excess red or blue at the far edges of your picture, crop it using the crop tool, also located in the tool bar (once you've outlined your picture with the tool, go to the 'Image' menu bar then press 'crop').

Here's the info for using PSP. 2 and 3 are pretty much the only thing you need to learn concerning the program. Taking the pictures will be another thing to learn, but I've done some pretty good ones just practicing.

Dang it! I gotta find something important to take a 3-D of. I still think the back of Ace's head would be a good one. At least we would know if he has any hair left :-)

   
       CREATING A 3D PICTURE USING PAINT SHOP PRO

BY VAUGHN - WA3TMS

1. Using a camera, take a left & right image, shifted by approximately
   1/2" per 2 feet of distance from the main object of interest, while
   maintaining horizontal & vertical alignment. The idea is to get 2
   pictures of a scene from 2 slightly different angles. Experimenting
   with the amount of shift between the left & right images, provides
   some interesting results.

Note: Keep in mind that the slight angle between the left & right images
is what gives you the 3D effect.  When I take pictures to make into 3D,
I use one of the corners of the viewfinder as a reference point.  I take
the "left" image and look for a leaf or other object in one of the corners
of the viewfinder.  Then I move to the right slightly and look for that
leaf or other object and put it where it was in the "left" picture, and
snap the "right" picture.  This insures that I am not just moving sideways,
with the camera, but changing the angle between the "left" & "right" images.
This procedure will produce good 3D pictures, provided you maintain
horizontal & vertical alignment when you take the left & right images.

2. Remove the green & blue componants from the left image and the red
   componant from the right image.  In Paint Shop Pro, this done by:

    a. Open your "Left" image.    
    b. From the "Colors" menu, select "Adjust" & "Red/Grn/Blu".
    c. Set the "Red" box to "0", the "Green" box to "-100", & the "Blue
       box to "-100" and click on "OK" (The "Left" image should have turned
       red). Leave the "Left" image open.
    d. Open your "Right" image.
    e. As above, from the "Colors" menu, select "Adjust" & "Red/Grn/Blu".
    f. Set the "Red" box to "-100", the "Green" box to "0", and the
       "Blue" box to "0" and click on "OK" (The "Right" image should have
        turned blue/green).  Leave the "Right" image open.
       
3. Combine the two color adjusted images into one 3D picture.  This is
   done, in Paint Shop Pro, by:

    a. (You should have your "Left" & "Right" color adjusted images on your
       desk top).  In the "Image" menu, select "Arithmetic", and your "Left"
       and "Right" images should appear in the "Source Image #1" & "Source
       Image #2" boxes (it dosen't matter in which box the respective
       images appear).
    b. Set the "Function" box to "Add".
    c. Check "All Channels" in the "Channel" box.
    d. In the "Modifiers" box, set "Divisor" to "1", the "Bias" to "0" &
       check the "Clip Color Values" box.
    e. Click "OK" to create 3D image

Quote from: 44mayg on March 17, 2004, 20:20 hrs
Dang it! I gotta find something important to take a 3-D of. I still think the back of Ace's head would be a good one. At least we would know if he has any hair left :-)

Steve, I thought you were a man of much integrety and sense. No Ace's head would not be a good subject. It would likely break your camera before you got the second shot!

I would suggest shooting something like a fighter jet or a good horse. Now that would be better than Ace assuming you can get the horse to stand still for the second picture.

Mark H

Oh yeah...... suggest horses and jets.

I'll have you know, I have no horses in my back yard.

And I loaned my jet to a friend for this year. Won't be back till next Christmas.

I miss my dear little Lear :-(

As they say, an invisible horse or jet is better than Ace's head. You could take one of a tree or even your backyard.

Mark H

Here's one I did of a Tamiya RC tank. I did this one black and white before I realized you don't have to do them B/W. This is smaller than my original so as not to take too long to load.

For anyone who has the red/blue glasses, this will work. (Like anyone but Mark and I are reading this stuff)

Cool! I like it. I don't have a scanner anymore and haven't gone digital yet, so I don't have any pictures to poast.

Have you checked out any of the Mars rover pictures? They are pretty cool. I love the fact that we can get such clear pictures transmitted through space to Earth.

Mark H

Do you have the glasses to view it? It's an easier one to do, being able to keep the camera at the exact same level by using the floor for support.

And you ask if I have looked at any of the Mars pics. Well, I'm an information freak, and speaking of hobbies, one of them is information. Especially new technology and stuff like that.

Have I looked at the Mars pics? Well, nearly every day, I check the site for the latest updates. And at this time, I've downloaded over 100 megs of pics and video. In fact, it was the Mars website and it's 3D pics that caused me to search how to do them with PSP.

I haven't saved as many the recent days as they are beginning to look the same. If I was studying everything like the scientists, each and every picture would (and does) hold something new. But since I'm saving these to look at rather than study, it's a little different. I do study and learn from them, but not in the same way as NASA. And I'm a little disappointed they haven't had any new panoramic or color pics for over a month. All the newer ones have been black and white. But I've taken some of those and turned them into 3D too. Look for the same named pic, except for an L or R in the name. Some of these will make a good 3D, but not all. Hey! A way for you to practice making them!

Our daughter is home visiting for 4 days right now, so I'm ashamed to say I haven't checked the site for a couple days. But I think I will later tonight or tomorrow.

Gotta keep tabs on Spirit and Opportunity and them Sols!! :-)

Hey, guys, didn't mean to abandon you - just been too (d-word) busy.  I must say, you two have done a fine job keeping this going.

Jokes are always good to enliven a thread.  Here's one:

One morning soon after getting elected, George Bush and Dick Cheney were having brunch at a restaurant.  The attractive waitress asked Cheney what he would like, and he replied,

"I'll have a bowl of oatmeal and some fruit."

"And what can I get for you, sir?" she asked George W.

He replied, "How about a quickie?"

"Why, Mr. President," the waitress said, "How rude . .. . you're starting to act like Mr. Clinton, and you haven't even been in office for a month yet!"

As the waitress stormed away, Cheney leaned over to Bush and whispered, "It's pronounced "quiche."

How about some blond jokes?  It's been a while since I've heard a new one.

I hadn't even read that pizza poast for a while.  Geez, with all of the pizza pictures in it, anyone with a slow dial-up connection isn't going to bother, so we've got a strategic advantage here.

You need a hook, an eyecatcher.  Jokes.  That'll get 'em poasting.

Hey Jim, thanks for poppin' in :-)

Glad to see you could make it. This thread kinda took on a life of it's own, so we've been trying to set a new record. Most everyone else has abandoned us, be Mark and I have decided to carry the torch toward that end goal.

OK, you want blonde. There are so many blonde jokes out there for quite some time, it's hard to poast one that hasn't been read by someone. But I'll give it a shot here. (An oldie but goodie)

************

One day there was a brunett jogging down the road saying,
"66....66....66..." etc. Later down the road a blonde comes up to her and
asks her what she is doing. The brunett replied "66...66...66" so, the
blonde went to the other side of the road and started jogging down the road
saying "66...66...66". After a while, the brunett hollers over to the blonde
and said "It's alot more fun in the middle of the road." "Ok." replied the
blonde and started jogging down the middle of the road. Just then, a monster
truck comes by and hits the blonde. The brunett still kept jogging down the
road sayin "67...67...67."

Blond Jokes. Gotta love them! I will have to dig some up for this thread as I don't have any new ones right now. I'm glad to see Jim in the conversations! :)

Mark H

Quote from: JimS on March 19, 2004, 12:45 hrs
Hey, guys, didn't mean to abandon you - just been too (d-word) busy.  I must say, you two have done a fine job keeping this going.

All in a good few poasts work. ;D Glad you can join us! :)

Mark H

All for a good cause!

If the following applies, she is blond:

* She thinks a quarterback is a refund.
* She thinks General Motors was in the army.
* She thinks Meow Mix was a CD for cats.
* She thinks Boyz II Men was a day care center.
* At the bottom of an application where it says "Sign here:" she writes "Sagittarius."
* She takes the ruler to bed to see how long she slept.
* She sent a fax with a stamp on it.
* Under "education" on A job application, She puts "Hooked On Phonics."
* She tripped over a cordless phone.
* She spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice can because it said "Concentrate."
* She told me to meet her at the corner of "WALK" and "DON'T WALK."
* She tried to put M&M's in alphabetical order.
* She studied for a blood test.
* She sold the car for gas money.
* She missed bus #44 so she took bus #22 twice instead.
* When she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home.
* When she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.
* She thought if she spoke her mind, she'd be speechless.
* She thought that she could not use her AM radio in the evening.
* She had a shirt that said "TGIF," which she thought stood for "This Goes In Front."
* She thinks Taco Bell is the Mexican phone company.

OK, so it's blonde day here.

In keeping with the "Today is Blonde Day" tradition established many years ago, here's a few more:

Q: What do you say to a Blonde that won't give in?
A: "Have another beer."

Q: How do you make a blonde's eyes twinkle?
A: Shine a flashlight in their ear.

Q: What does a blond and a beer bottle have in common?
A: They're both empty from the neck up.

Q: How do you get a blond out of a tree?
A: Wave

Q: What does a blonde owl say?
A: What, what?

Q: What's the Blonde's cheer?
A: " I'm blonde, I'm blonde, I'm B.L.O.N....ah, oh well.. I'm blonde, I'm
blonde, yea yea yea..."

Q: Why did the blonde scale the chain-link fence?
A: To see what was on the other side.

Q: Why did the blonde have tire tread marks on her back?
A: From crawling across the street when the sign said "DON'T WALK".

Q: Why did the blonde keep a coat hanger in her back seat?
A: In case she locks the keys in her car.

Q: Why did the blonde tip-toe past the medicine cabinet?
A: So she wouldn't wake up the sleeping pills.

Q: Why did God create blondes?
A: Because sheep can't bring beer from the fridge.
Q: Why did God create brunettes?
A: Neither could the blondes.

Q: Why did the blonde try and steal a police car?
A: She saw "911" on the back and thought it was a Porsche.

Q: What is the difference between a blonde and an inflatable doll?
A: About 2 cans of hair spray

Q: Where do blondes go to meet their relatives?
A: The vegetable garden.

Q: How many blondes does it take to play tag?
A: One.

Q: What do you call four Blondes in a Volkswagon?
A: Far-from-thinkin

Q: What did the blonde say when she looked into a box of Cheerios?
A: "Oh look! Donut seeds!"

Q: What did the blonde name her pet zebra?
A: Spot.

Q: What's a blonds' favourite rock group?
A: Air Supply.

Q: Why can't blondes put in light bulbs?
A: They keep breaking them with the hammers.

Q: Did you hear about the blonde coyote?
A: Got stuck in a trap, chewed off three legs and was still stuck.

Q: Why can't blondes be cattle ranchers?
A: They can't keep their calves together!

Q: What's a blonde's favorite nursery rhyme?
A: Humpme Dumpme.

Q: What did the blonde customer say to the buxom waitress (reading her
nametag) ?
A: "'Debbie'...that's cute. What did you name the other one ?"

Q: What goes VROOM, SCREECH,VROOM, SCREECH,VROOM, SCREECH?
A: A blonde going through a flashing red light.

Q: What does a blonde do if she is not in bed by 10?
A: She picks up her purse and goes home.

Q: To a blonde, what is long and hard?
A: Grade 4.

Q: What is the definition of gross ignorance?
A: 144 blondes.

Q: Did you hear about the blonde couple that were found frozen to death in
their car at a drive-in movie theater?
A: They went to see "Closed for the Winter".

Q: What is the definition of the perfect woman?
A: A deaf and dumb blonde nymphomaniac whose father owns a pub.

Q: A blonde is walking down the street with a pig under her arm. She passes
a person who asks "Where did you get that?"
A: The pig says, "I won her in a raffle!"

Q: A blonde ordered a pizza and the clerk asked if he should cut it in six
or twelve pieces.
A: "Six, please. I could never eat twelve pieces."

Q: What's a blonde's idea of safe sex?
A: Locking the car door.

Q: Why did the blonde keep failing her driver's test?
A: Because every time the door opened, she jumped into the back seat.

Q: What's five miles long and has an IQ of forty?
A: A blonde parade.

Q: Why did the blonde ask her friends to save their burned-out light bulbs?
A: She needed them for the darkroom she was building.

Q: Why did the blonde resolve to have only three children?
A: Because she read that one child out of every four born was Chinese.

Q: What is it when a blonde blows into another blondes ear?
A: Data transfer.

Well, I don't have another blond joke, but I do have a memo to cats and dogs that you may find usefull. Some of these especially fit our two cats:
__________________________________________________

Dear Dog and Cat,

When I say to move, it means go someplace else, not switch positions with each other so there are still two of you in the way.

The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. (Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate & food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food & dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.)

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king size bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue to sleep on the couch to ensure your comfort. Look at videos of dogs and cats sleeping. They can actually curl up in a ball. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. (I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space used is nothing but sarcasm.)

My compact discs are not miniature Frisbees.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and  manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine meow, try to turn the knob, or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through  the same door I entered. (In addition, I have been using the bathroom for years...canine or feline attendance is not mandatory.)

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dogs or cats' butt.

I cannot stress this enough. It would be such a simple change for you.

To pacify you I have posted the following message on our front door:

Rules for Non-pet owners who visit and like to complain about our pets:

1. They live here; you don't.

2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.

3. I like my pet better than I like most people.

4. To you it's an animal. To me he and/or she is an adopted son and/or daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and is speech challenged.

5.Dogs and cats are better than kids. They eat less, don't ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called, never drive your car, don't hang out with drug using friends, don't drink or smoke, don't worry about buying the latest fashions, don't wear your clothes, don't need a gazillion dollars for college, and if they get pregnant, you can sell the results.

I just thought of something. Since the title of this thread is recent posts (mispelled of course), it has to stay recent, which makes it eternal by default. :)

Mark H

Dang it. I went through this with Dude or Ace or someone else a long time ago.

Recent Posts is correct. It's one of only a couple places here where it's spelled "Post".

Go to the bottom of the forum page, and look at how it's spelled.

"Recent POSTS"

Also, if you reply to anything or start a new thread, when you go to poast it, the button also says POST. And those aren't the only two in the forum. Those are just a couple of examples.

I can't help it if those other things are wrong. It's not my fault. I didn't do the buttons or links.

By the way......... almost there!! :-)

True, I guess I always thought is was a flaw with the software. Your enlightenment has set me straight. Post is in the dictionary, so I guess it is correct.

I wonder where that guy named Ace is at now in days? Even he could contribute to the eternal thread we have here.

Mark H

Post. Post Toasties. Fence post. Soldier at his post. Post Office. Post a notice. Post to your bank account.

Heck yeah! Post is a word. Dictionary is even in the dictionary.

I think Scuzzy and Ace moved in together. Somewhere. Somewhere under a rock. In the desert. They're at their post eating Post Toasties by their fence post down the road from the Post Office trying to fix Ace's bank account.

Scuzzy is doomed if Ace is living with him. Doomed I say!

Even the Federal Government recognized p-o-s-t as the correct spelling for post.

Maybe the word "Poast" was invented due to the presence of Ace messing everything up. He probably sabotaged the site when it first came out to get that "a" in the word post.

Mark H

Well, poast (which isn't in the dictionary) came up about 300 forums ago. Can't remember who exactly had the misfortune to spell the word post wrong, as poast, but it then became the running joke for someone needing a speel chucker. (spell checker)

Guess we know where the word Poast has ended up landing at.

And also, some lucky winner will get the grand prize for tying that long pizza thingy if they happen to poast the next reply.

One more blonde joke.

Two blondes were waiting at the Pearly Gates and struck up a conversation.
First blonde says "How did you die?"
Second says "I froze to death".
First blonde says "Must have been awful."
Second blonde says "How did you die?"
First blonde says "I had a heart attack, I knew my husband was being
unfaithful, so I came home unexpectedly one day and rushed to the bedroom and
found my husband alone reading. I rushed to the basement and nobody was
hiding there, I rushed to the attic and still no one, and after all that
rushing around I had a heart attack and died."
Second blonde says, "If only you'd looked in the freezer we'd both still be
alive."

Pizza and us are now tied!

What do I win?

Mark H

I think I got an email from someone who might be the admins possibly here at Poasters. They might have said something about there maybe being a large sum of what might possibly be cash. Maybe something like a hunnerd thousand and a big trophy, or something similar to that.

Well, maybe a little less. And it might not be cash. You could probably get a trophy if you go to a second hand store and buy one. I'm not really even sure if I heard anything from anyone who might be associated with friends of the admins here. I don't think I have email any more.

I think there's also the slight possibility that someone told me I might have made the whole thing up. Maybe I think I thought it all up.

But that can't be confirmed either.

Open a cold one for yourself tonight Mark. I'll do the same.

I think.

FYI: the forum is called "Poasters."  The explanation has been provided, off the home page.  To tie in with roast, and toast.  We have a Poast Office.  You could look it up.  

Ace; maybe.

There you are Ace, ruining our fun again! What will we do with you? You don't show up until the record is obtained. Steve and I did all the hard work with some assistance from Jim.

Mark H; May move to Indiana.

Hey there Mark. I thank you and share your enthusiasm over finally kicking that pizza thingy into second place. When everyone else split, we hung in there to get the job done. And some last minute help from JimS also helped get us over the top.

We do have to remember that when this thread took on an unexpected life of it's own, there were many others who helped it grow and almost took it to the limit.

*STARRING*
(In order of appearance)

44mayg
Scuzzy
Mark H
Ace
Travis F (Alias Dude)
Neon
JimS
Pat
Wade777
iansl

But alas, we were abandoned at the end. Hung out to dry. At least we hung in, while hung out there, to get the job done.

Good job everyone!

Geez......... give Ace a couple days off and he comes back a panda jam stinking high heavens grouch.

We also got more bang for the number of views. The Pizza poast has almost twice the views, but yet we have more poast. I call that efficiency!

Mark H