While visiting a b8ta high-tech gizmo store in Santa Monica, I happened upon some immersion goggles called "Royole Moons" that have the capability of showing 3D photos in both the red/blue and some side-by-side 3D formats.  It has some small 32GB drive and power pack on it which is about the size of a phone.  It has a Photos folder in it I thought might be good to store some 3D photos into.  I ended up buying the things thinking I could use them for the drone as well to get the perspective from the pilot's seat.

Has anyone ever done the 2D to 3D photo thing and used some software to accomplish it?  PS has the ability to shift an image for the red/blue, but it doesn't do all of the area and just what you select so it looks stacked.  Must be something better out there to do this.

Ideas?

It is not quite clear what you mean by 3D photo thing or by:

GRMACK wrote:
but it doesn't do all of the area and just what you select so it looks stacked.

Generally for photographic stereo VR you need a capture from 2 different view points in space. For 360 degree view it is even more complicated. If it is a render there are 3D packages which can render stereo.

For simple things you can try something like this:

https://digital-photography-school.com/ … otography/

http://gizmodo.com/5897089/17-brilliant … s-required

I found a website that shows how to do 3D with Photoshop ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5qiCvaS0o ). Took me a while, but he covers it pretty well and has a link beneath the video for the Creature image and Edo font both to download and play with.

I had a hard time finding the 3D glasses with red and blue locally so I made mine.  I used a Lee #789 "Blood Red" and a Lee #172 "Blue Lagoon" theatrical gels from local stage lighting shop ($6 ea.) as they seemed to give me a ghost-free image with the sRGB colors used in Photoshop and close enough with his demo.  Just used some old glasses frames and stuck them in them (Left frame is red side when looking through them.).

Had to find an image with some scene with depth like a distant background and foreground. I used this image of mine (18+): https://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/1 … abc3de.jpg

The background tumbleweeds I left for the most distant in the color separations, the gas pumps slightly ahead at 5 Photoshop arrow button clicks (Per the video demo above.), the car closer at 9 clicks, and the model even closer at 12 clicks.  The greater the color separates, the closer the image to you appears.

Weird part is if you view the image and move your head side to side you can see the background shift away from the foreground, i.e. the tumbleweeds seem to move behind the foreground items. This was only from a single-image shot too.

The concept works well with screen and also with prints.  Personally due to the dark red in the glasses, the screen looks better to me than a print, although either has a "Wow!" factor to them.

Though you are saying PS is not a good option to choose for this purpose, still I am sharing this post which has done a great job https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/2D-to … Conversion .