Lenticular

Lenticular turns your picture into a lenticular print, the ribbed plastic card that shows a different image as you tilt it. A picture change sweeps the flip across the sheet, and where the flip line sits depends on the angle you look from.

How it works

Fine cylindrical lenses sit over an interleaved print: under every lens is a strip of the old picture and a strip of the new one. Which strip a lens shows depends on the viewing angle, so the change is seen through the lenses, not painted on. It shifts when the camera orbits or the object leans. The lens ridges show in the glossy coating as fine highlights that slide as you move. At rest both strips carry the same picture, leaving only the ribbed gloss and a slow, gentle bow of the sheet. It is lit by your scene, and object effects work on it.

Settings

• Lenses sets how many lenses run across; Thickness how much the viewing angle changes what they show.
• Sharpness sets how crisp the flip is; Ghost the colour fringe at the flip line.
• Ridge, Gloss and Roughness set the ribbed highlights and the print finish.
• Spread and Sweep angle shape the change.

Cursor

Peek flips the lenses near the cursor back to the previous picture; Bend bows the sheet toward it, rolling the highlights.

Use it for

• Collectibles, trading cards and posters
• Fashion and retail campaigns
• Before-and-after comparisons