The history of 3D imagery – especially in the cinema – is somewhat tortuous, with almost every new iteration following the cycle of a boom in popularity, a wave of enthusiasm in the industry, general dissatisfaction and eventually, the sound of thousands of 3D glasses being emptied into landfill.
But when I found out you could create 3D imagery in Adobe Photoshop, I just had to try it out for myself. The type of 3D imagery I'm going to create is known as anaglyph 3D. You see, long before 3D televisions, 3D cinemas, and the best 3D printers, back in the 1950s, there was the first 3D boom, anaglyph 3D.
