As friendly as the dog at the left, Super Flip! 3-D Geniustm enables you to produce up to 300 layers of depth, with complete control of matting, transparency, depth, etc., and it's lightning fast. You can play and "noodle around" with it just for fun, printing out samples on your desktop printer- just to see how far you can push your creativity! Using an image processing program, such as Photoshop, you can take apart a conventional 2-D image, place the chopped apart image files into Super Flip!3-D Geniustm and create a 2-D to 3-D conversion. Our motto is "Phd Quality- Kindergarten Simplicity", which means that anyone can quickly learn to make world caliber 3-D. Super Flip! 3-D Geniustm is so fast, simple and inexpensive, that it will enable you to open up your 3-D creativity and do not just 3-D , but really great 3-D. The Super Flip! 3-D Geniustm (Universal) program is for Windows 95/98/NT, XP, Vista, and Intel Macs. Get Started with Super Flip! 3-D Geniustm 1. Prepare a file for each depth level represented in the final 3-d image. The background image is complete and the foreground images are masked to create transparent areas. Any single color can represent a transparent area but black (0,0,0) is the default. ..background layer ....foreground layer 1...foreground layer 2.... foreground layer3 2. Load the files into Super Flip! 3-D Geniustm in order. Files can be loaded using the add button or by dragging and dropping the files onto the Flip! window. Multiple files can be selected in the file requester by holding down the control key while clicking on files. 3. Hit the process button to go to the process setup screen. Enter the linescreen lpi and the output image size. Also select the number of intermediate views to be created. Ten intermediate views is a good place to start. The more views the more continuous the 3D image is but the files get larger and the printer resolution required gets higher. You also set here the forward and rear horizontal parallax shift. Start with 0.3 inches forward and 0.8 inches back. The greater the parallax shift, the deeper the image will appear. To much shift will make the background or foreground hard to view. Forward shift creates depth in front of the screen while rear shift creates depth behind the screen. You might want to turn alignment marks on in the process screen. Make sure the generate intermediate views box is not checked. It takes much longer to generate the intermediate views and is not necessary. 4. If your masking color is black, you can simply hit the process button and create your 3-D picture. If you need to select a different masking color you can go to the Transparency screen and do that now. If you are using alpha channel masks or mask files Flip! should detect them automatically but you can check on the Transparency screen. Then hit the process button to get your output. That’s all there is to it. There are lots of ways to fine tune your images if necessary. You can exactly control the depth layers on the transparency screen. If your output only shows the front image something has gone wrong with the transparency mask. Check your mask color. It must be specified exactly. Some programs change the colors slightly when files are saved. For example, jpg sometimes changes black 0, 0, 0 to black 1, 1, 1. This will mess up the default transparency color. Sometimes programs like Photoshop add a border of intermediate color pixels around selected objects and text. This will show up in the final image as an unwanted halo. If you magnify the image in Photoshop you will see these pixels and change them to the mask color.