3D PHOTO EFFECT

This post is for all you paper scrappers out there. We helped Kendra with her exhibit for her history fair project, and it turned out so cool that we just had to post about it.

Isn't she so cute?! :)

She wanted to make a display board and diorama for the fair. Due to our time constraints, we had to make her choose one or the other. With a little compromise, we figured out how to get the best of both worlds. We focused on the pictures and decided to try a 3D effect on them.

The picture below is taken with the camera pointing directly at the photo. The 3D effect was done to the three boys in the center of the photo. It is hard to tell from this angle and through a camera, but with the naked eye, stacking the images gives a haunting effect to this photo.

We took this next photo on an angle, and you can better see the stacked images. First, we started with three copies of the exact same photo - the same size, color, etc. The first one was laid down on a mat, the second cropped very carefully down to just the three boys in the middle, and the last photo was cropped down to just the boy in the center.

This is another shot looking at the side of the stacked photos. They are spaced apart using pieces of craft foam and attached with glue dots.

We put down the cutting of the three boys together first, directly on top of where they are in the bottom photo. Next, the cutting of the single boy in the center goes again directly on top of his picture in the lower cutting. Now you have a photo that just doesn't tell a story, it makes a statement!

We liked the effect so much on the first photo that we helped Kendra add the same effect to all the photos on her board. Her project was about child labor laws and making these photos three dimensional just made them seem to jump out of the paper and shout, "LISTEN TO MY STORY!"

This 3D effect works well on buildings, too. The Utah State Capitol building shown here has four levels of stacked images, and it looks very cool!

This is a color photo using this technique. It was used on the images of the three children sitting on the right hand side.

In this image, the two children in the front row of the class are 3D.

This project was really fun! Kendra's exhibit even went on to the regional level of the competition. As we were working on this project, we thought this effect would be really cool applied to scrapbook pages. Enjoy and scrap on ... or what ever you ladies say to each other when you're scrapping!