How to Make Lenticular Prints With Photoshop

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Last Updated: April 5, 2025

Adobe Photoshop can do a lot of things, including making lenticular prints. If you want to learn how to make a lenticular print in this program, look no further than this article.

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Arrange a scene such that the main object is about 4-feet from the camera with some objects at the front and some at the back.
Each picture should be about 0.4-in apart.

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Adjust the opacity of some layers and align the common point to the same x-y coordinates.
Use the crop tool to crop out the empty space on the left.
Fill the rest of the area with these white-black stripes.
Highlight and select the Layer Mask layer and paste over the content of the clipboard.
Move the whole pattern 2-pixels to the right. CTRL-A and CTRL-C to put the shifted content to the clipboard.

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Things You'll Need

To make a 3D lenticular print you will need to have the following items ready.
A digital camera with at least 2 mega pixels.
A slider bar to mount the camera so pictures can be taken along a straight line. If you don't have a slider bar, consider tying the camera to # 1/18th scale die-cast model car.
Adobe Photoshop or any other graphics editing program such as GIMP.
A lenticular sheet with adhesive backing and known line density, 40 lines per inch, for example