HairyDalek
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Hey, it worked.
Max
Well done! I’ll look at that on my iPad later - the screen size will be ideal with the lenses I have at the moment.
I got some kind of reply from the Berezin people. Apparently, there’s a shipping calculator somewhere on their site. I’ll look into that later today.
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Max - unfortunately, I don't have a real, proper Essex accent (which is in decline, though I have heard it in the wild). I sound like I come from North London - which is pretty much where I grew up.
I've asked the Berezin site for shipping rates on that viewer you mentioned. I'll see what they charge before I decide whether to buy. I may have to have a go at making something anyway - sounds like an interesting project.
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MaxClass - I’m based in the UK, in Essex.
I presume this is the viewer you mention: http://www.3dinlife.com/english/Products/3DViewer.html
I found others on the web, but their shipping costs to the UK are insane - usually at least doubles the price of the item - so that‘s a no go at the moment. I may buy some small mirrors and try to make my own. Nothing like a bit of experimentation.
Raskolnikov - yes - anything that helps like that would be useful. I am rather surprised that scaling information is omitted.
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MaxClass - thanks for your reply. I’ve been using a Fuji stereo camera for a while. From that I get an MPO with a left and right image - and I’ve been able to extract the JPEGs and stitch them together with a little utility I wrote in AppleScript. From that, I’ve been able to import them into a “Holmes Card” template I created in Photoshop and size/adjust from there.
This workflow breaks when using film - I was bought a Wray stereographic camera over the summer, and that is far less precise when it comes to image size - which is why I want to scale by a percentage. If I know the left image is to be scaled by 85%, then I can easily do the same to the right image. Easy in Photoshop, a calculator needed in Designer. I could crop the pictures to the same size before I start scaling, but I’m one of those nerds who like the edges of the frame in the picture. I really don’t want to crop before I have the 3D image working to how I want it.
A handy hint I’ll share - if you have an iPad, then you can use that as a second screen. You can get apps to make an iPad a second screen, but you can also VNC to access your Mac via the iPad. Your stereo image displayed on the screen on the iPad will work well with cross eyed viewing or those little stereo lorgnette lenses you can get. No need to zoom your image much, if at all. The iPad does the work for you. I expect if you have an Android tablet, a VNC client on that will do the same job.
I do have a gallery of some of my stereo images - http://www.worldofpaul.com/stereocards/viewer.html - this is designed for iPad viewing using lenses or the Owl viewer from the London Stereoscopic Company (the card sizes are designed to fit in the aperture at the back of these viewers). I recently added an option for cross-eyed viewing because some people were asking for it. I find that and parallel free viewing hard to do, so I tend to use lenses. There are also some scans of stereo photos I found at an antiques shop. Most pictures were taken with a Fuji camera, but a couple of sets were taken with the Wray (you can probably guess which are which from the image quality).
Good call on the copyright message - I really need to add those to my photos. This is a hobby I’ve slowly fallen into - I know there’s a lot more out there than I have knowledge of. I tend to think stereo image is “right” if I don”t have to fight to see the 3D effect, but I am becoming increasingly aware that there is a lot of theory behind making a 3D image work. I really need to read up on that.
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To scale by percentage us "*=50%"
We decided to adopt a function approach instead of just putting in "50%", because some edit boxes might be a percentage value, and there's a difference between setting a value of 50% and calculating 50% of the current value.
You can also use +=50%, -=50%, etc.
OK - not what I am used to. However, consider the following scenarios:
1 - You are scaling an item, and eyeballing it. You get it to the size you want. In Photoshop as you are scaling, you not only get the pixel dimensions of the transform, but also the % of the transform in the inspector palette.
2 - In Photoshop, when you import a Smart Object, you can scale it using the transform tools. A percentage scale is entered into the tool bar, and the item is scaled by that amount. That scaling is remembered by Photoshop for future edits.
What I’m having to do in Designer is the following, after Placing two bitmaps (in this case, for a stereo image card where there is a left image and a right image) so I have two Embedded Documents:
1 - Select the Left image and scale to the size the image is needed to be, using the transform tools.
2 - Edit the Left image to get the original dimensions of the image (in this case I need pixels).
3 - Type the following into Spotlight on my Mac:
(802/2240)*100 which gives me 35 - which is the percentage I need to scale the right hand image. 2240 is the width of the original image in pixels, and 802 is the size the embedded document is when scaled.
4 - Check that the right hand image’s pixel dimensions in the document match the original pixel dimensions
5 - Type in *=35% into the transform tab
6 >> The image is transformed by 35%
The problem I have here is having to smooth, easy way to arrive at the 35% transform, other than doing some maths outside of the app. This feels inelegant and messy. Remember, in Photoshop I have the % scaling to hand and it takes less than a couple of seconds to do the same thing. Should I decide to change the size of the images, I need to redo the calculations again, rescale the image to 100% so the *=40% works on the original dimensions, not the displayed dimensions.
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HI,
I am wondering how I can scale an item by percentage. There are options for width and height, but no options to scale an item by a percentage, which I think is pretty important in any serious design tool.
Even though the Transform palette has width/height entry points, it won’t accept percentage values. Am I missing something here?
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Hi, I’m Paul. I mostly design websites, but I also do other design work. I’m looking for some definite Photoshop/Illustrator replacements, and from what I’ve heard and seen about Affinity Design, I’m pretty impressed so far. I also tinker with stereo photography, and will be wanting to use Affinity to edit and create stereo cards. So lots to look at and think about.
Place Document -> CRASH
in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on macOS threads
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1 - New Affinity DEsigner document
2 - Go to File>Place and select an Affinity Designer document to embed
3 - OK the filer
4 >> Crash
I reported a problem with Affinity Designer not placing images in bugs, and I thought I’d try it in the beta. This causes a crash.
Mac OS X 10.7.5
Report follows: