Summertime Stereogram

**gwpriester** · 19 July 2018, 07:08 PM

Just lie back and relax.

**Egg Bramhill** · 19 July 2018, 08:28 PM

Life's a .......
Great one Gary.

**Boy** · 19 July 2018, 08:54 PM

Whew, looking nice & cool! I'm ready to dive right in...

**DanFelix** · 21 July 2018, 01:41 PM

Real enough that my feet feel wet! Thanks. Well done.

**Penny O'Rorke** · 21 July 2018, 03:23 PM

Very cool, Gary, in every sense of the word!

DD · 22 July 2018, 05:30 PM

The white spray of the wave looks lovely and very 3D forward.

**RKissane** · 23 July 2018, 01:21 PM

When I looked at this last week I could not make out the writing, everything else was coming through. Today when I looked again the writing pop out immediately. Isn't it strange how the mind works.

Another nice one Gary.

Ray

**gwpriester** · 23 July 2018, 02:24 PM

Thanks for all the great comments. Gene and I have been trying to come up with new images every other day for our eyeTricks 3D Stereograms Facebook page so I am getting lots of practice. Even after doing these images for over 20 years now, I still learn new things.

**Boy** · 23 July 2018, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Even after doing these images for over 20 years now, I still learn new things.

Tell us, what new things? I'm curious to know.

**gwpriester** · 23 July 2018, 10:34 PM

Tell us, what new things? I'm curious to know.

Well recently I have been doing more work with transparencies. The Photo Tool > Select Colors to Enhance works really well to drop out a color (usually black) while maintaining the saturation of the other colors. I have been doing a lot of layering with transparency.

A traditional hidden image stereogram contains no transparency and no shadows. Your eyes see the shape. By adding layers, actually several different stereograms, I can achieve transparency. I'll post another example of this effect later.

The attached image makes ample use of Select Colors to Enhance to drop out a black background but keeps the solid colors of the image.