Adobe Lenticular Software???

[Ekim Wahs]

Photoshop CS4 Extended has the ability to create and print lenticular images in addition to red/blue stereo.

Mike Shaw
Photoshop QE

[Brad Bartkus]

Any particular site you could direct me to, to find this in action? I can only find some CS4 info that shows some basic 3d stuff, but nothing lenticular specific. I currently use proprietary software for interlacing lenticular images, but it would be interesting to see what Adobe has come up with.

[Ekim Wahs]

The feature videos have just started getting posted. I would keep an eye on Russell Brown’s site http://www.russellbrown.com I think he will be posting a video on lenticular creation in the new future.

Mike Shaw
Photoshop QE

[Brad Bartkus]

I’ve seen the Russell Brown stuff on lenticular (very amateurish at best) but he’s using off the shelf lenticular interlacing software, not anything built right into Photoshop.

[Ekim Wahs]

If you saw anything from him prior to yesterday he was using non-Adobe software because we had not announced yet, which prevented him from using/showing CS4. Do you have an example of the type of work you are doing with lenticular?

Mike Shaw
Photoshop QE

[Brad Bartkus]

Yes, go here to see a ton of examples…

lenticular.rrd.com/

[Ekim Wahs]

The 3d/depth you can do straight out of the box, the examples with animation/zoom would require more work. I know a couple of folks are working on scripts to do some of this stuff. Russell is doing a lenticular seminar at the Adobe Max conference in November. If you cannot attend, he should be posting tutorials shortly afterward.

Mike Shaw
Photoshop QE

[Brad Bartkus]

Mike,
I’ve been doing lenticular for about 15 years now. The company I was at before coming here is National Graphics (using their Extreme Vision technology), where I worked on hundreds of lenticular projects over the course of 9 or 10 years, including the DVD cover for Independence Day. I’ve been here at RR Donnelley for over 5 years (using proprietary interlacing software) and have worked on hundreds of lenticular projects here as well, including many for the Disney Movie Club, the upcoming release of Hellboy II, Iron Man, Starship Stroopers 3, as well as many more projects for packaging, POP displays, tradeshow booths, etc. It has been great being a part of bringing lenticular into the mainstream through modern interlacing software, the use of Photoshop, After Effects, morphing programs and computer to plate technology and seeing all of the various lenses being developed for a wide range of lenticular, from extremely thin (with 200 lenticules per inch) for label applications to very thick (40 lenticules per inch) for bus shelter sized posters. You can do everything from a postage stamp to a billboard now so it’s great to see Adobe integrating it right into Photoshop.

[Ekim Wahs]

Russell has posted some new lenticular tutorials on his Tips and techniques area

https://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Mike Shaw
Photoshop QE

[Brad Bartkus]

That’s interesting. Once we get the new version of Photoshop I’ll dig into it more deeply. I’m hoping you’ll be able to pick different lenses than the rough ones he shows. We typically print on a 100 lenticules per inch lens from Pacur.
https://www.pacur.com/
It also only appears to print two different angles for the 3d. We typically print at least 12. I’m hoping there’s a setting for the number of frames you want to interlace under the lens. (Depending on the amount of lenticules per inch you can fit a set amount of info under each lenticule. There is a lens which has 200 lenticules per inch which can only support about 6 different angles or frames under it whereas the 40 lenticules per inch lens can support about 8 times that.) there are different lenses for different applications. The 200 lpi lens is great for labels and that sort of thing and the 40 lpi might be better suited for posters, bus shelters, etc.