Complete stereo photography workflows with StereoPhoto Maker: twin rigs, cha-cha shooting, restoring vintage stereo cards, printing, backups and publishing.
Depth Maps for Facebook 3D Photos: The SPM Workflow Facebook’s 3D photo feature builds its parallax from two files: the photo and a matching depth map. StereoPhoto Maker connects to this in two ways — it prepares and aligns real stereo pairs, and since v6.41 it can extract depth maps from iPhone HEIC portrait photos…
Side-by-Side for YouTube VR: What SPM Does (and What It Doesn’t) YouTube accepts 3D uploads, and the practical input is a side-by-side video with the right projection metadata. StereoPhoto Maker is a stills program — it will not edit your video — but it is where the stereo discipline for those frames is learned and…
Back Up Your MPO Library: A Routine for Irreplaceable Stereo Originals Stereo originals are unusually fragile data. A stereo pair is two files pretending to be one; an MPO is one file a careless “optimiser” can flatten into a single 2D JPEG. Fujifilm W3s and 3DS consoles are long out of production — their originals…
Print Stereo Cards at Home: Paper, Mounting & Viewing Printing your own stereo cards closes the loop that SPM’s Stereo Card Maker opens: digital pair in, physical card out, straight into a stereoscope. This guide covers the practical choices — paper, printer route, mounting — that decide whether the result feels like a card or…
Scan & Restore Vintage Stereo Cards (Then Remount Them in SPM) Vintage stereo cards — the twin prints on card stock that parlours viewed through stereoscopes for a century — are fragile, foxed, faded and frequently wonderful. This workflow digitises them properly: scan once, restore honestly, and mount them digitally in StereoPhoto Maker so they…
The Cha-Cha Method: One Camera, Two Shots, Real Stereo Cha-cha is the poor stereographer’s rig: one camera, two shots — shoot, shift your weight sideways, shoot again. Named for the little dance, it costs nothing and works anywhere, within limits this guide states plainly. StereoPhoto Maker does the finishing. The technique Frame the shot and…
Build a Twin-Camera Stereo Rig (and Finish the Pairs in SPM) A twin-camera rig is two cameras mounted side by side, fired together — the classic way to shoot stereo of anything that moves. StereoPhoto Maker is where the pairs end up, but the quality of the final image is decided on the bar, in…
