# Stereoviews

**URL:** <https://forums.leialoft.com/t/stereoviews/888>\
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**Created:** [January 1, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/stereoviews/888 "2021-01-01T20:01:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![middlebass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@middlebass](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/middlebass)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/stereoviews/888/1 "2021-01-01T20:01:09Z")

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I’d like to convert a large collection of 19th century stereoviews to something that Leia or the Lume Pad could display in 3D but don’t know the requirements for getting those photos into the \_2x1 format needed. I’m sure it’s not as simple as renaming them. Can someone help? Those old photos have very slightly different sizes and aspect ratios, and if I cropped the two pictures out of each stereoview the edges might not be perfectly aligned.

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**Author:** ![Chillerfpv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Chillerfpv](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/Chillerfpv)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/stereoviews/888/2 "2021-01-01T22:47:43Z")

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Use the Leia program to convert to 3d video.  
You can download it on Leia website under tools

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**Author:** ![lichen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@lichen](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/lichen)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/stereoviews/888/3 "2021-01-02T16:55:47Z")

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Michael, start with just adding the “\_2x1” & see what happens. This isn’t a specific format; it tells LeiaPlayer that this is a stereo image.  
You should get best results when the image is even: the two views are centered in their side, not rotated, with equal borders.  
Let us know how it turns out - i’ve really enjoyed viewing old stereographs in 3D!

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**Author:** ![nic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.leialoft.com/nic/32/400_2.png) [@nic](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/nic)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/stereoviews/888/4 "2021-01-05T22:57:37Z")

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I’d agree with @lichen’s suggestion of adding “\_2x1” and seeing how it looks.

If it doesn’t look good, the alignment is probably the issue. I just wrote some scripts to automate this (unfortunately no GUI at this point, but if you’re comfortable with a command line this should work out of the box): [GitHub - LeiaInc/LeiaQuilt: Utility for aligning images into a 2x1 or 2x2](https://github.com/LeiaInc/LeiaQuilt)

This is the technique I used to make the following image from an old stereogram:

> **[LeiaPix | Share Profiles | Share, Capture, and Discover Light Field Photos](https://share.leiapix.com/deeplink-sharePost?postId=JjKqVqoagzyQn5UO5x60)**

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**Author:** ![nic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.leialoft.com/nic/32/400_2.png) [@nic](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/nic)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/stereoviews/888/5 "2021-01-05T23:00:33Z")

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If you’re looking for something more user-friendly, I believe [StereoPhotomaker](http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/) will be worth a shot.

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**Author:** ![Gtaylor441](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gtaylor441](https://forums.leialoft.com/u/Gtaylor441)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.leialoft.com/t/stereoviews/888/6 "2021-04-18T12:42:09Z")

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Have you had any luck yet? I also have a significant collection to convert. I used SPM for my first one that I posted, a St. Augustine, FL street scene. Perhaps we should communicate off line to refine the technique.