Anaglyph Workshop

The concept of 3D images is far from new, but it's still an intriguing optical illusion. The best part is that creating it is not hard, especially with modern software applications. An excellent example is Anaglyph Workshop, which provides you with several ways of creating 3D effects in your pictures. You can use any photo from your personal collection, and you will find every tool you need to make the effects possible.

Anaglyph Workshop is free to try, without any restrictions that would prevent you from evaluating its capabilities. Its setup package is small, and it doesn't take more than a minute to install its components on your computer. You can run the application on any modern Windows platform, and you can also find a Mac OS X version.

There are multiple methods of creating a 3D image, and Anaglyph Workshop lets you work with all of them, on separate interfaces, which you can bring up from a central control panel. You can work with single images and apply a 3D effect over them or on selected areas, but you can also work with dual images and depth maps.

If you work with a single image, you can decide to make the whole thing 3D, but you can also select something within the picture with a rectangle or lasso tool if you want to bring an object or person closer or further. Other methods involve superimposing two pictures and moving them closer or further apart. What's more, the software lets you employ various color pairs, for different glasses.

Besides making single images look 3D, you can also apply this effect on multiple pictures in a single run, thanks to the application's batch processing capabilities. You can load entire folders for left and right images separately and just click a button to convert them. Regardless of what method you want to go for or how many pictures you want to convert, it won't take more than a minute to complete the operation.

It doesn't take more than a few clicks and a few seconds of patience to create anaglyphs from any picture, thanks to Anaglyph Workshop's straightforward functionality.