Stereoscopic photos!–create them and share them with JitterPic. A few clicks with a steady hand and you’ll begin to create an album of JitterPics with stunning and hilarious–and, yes, 3D–effects.

View JitterPics on your iPhone or share them with friends via email, MySpace, and Facebook. Use the JitterPic app to view your Facebook friends’ JitterPic albums. Click to see JitterPics on MySpace and JitterPics on Facebook.

Taking Basic JitterPics

To create a JitterPic you simply take two very similar pictures of the same subject, moving the camera a small bit in between. The process takes about 20 seconds.

3D JitterPics (click here to see galleries)

Think stereoscope (wiggle stereoscopy). A carefully captured JitterPic–unlike an ordinary photograph–creates the illusion of realistic depth. No 3D glasses needed!

Other Trippy Effects (click here to see galleries)

Play! Create a trippy spin by moving camera drastically between shots. Create strobe effect by flipping light switch between shots. Create “now-I’m-here-now-I’m-not” ghost images. Create throb effect by shooting from two different distances. Create stop-motion animation by keeping camera perfectly still while your subject moves.

Warning: JitterPics are jumpy, flashy, patterned images. Have care if you are sensitive to effects of this kind.

We’ve received a handful of emails from JitterPic users looking for advice on how to create good-looking 3D effects. Here’s a public thank you for the emails. We appreciate so much your creative drive to take good pics! For all JitterPic users who share our dream of creating good 3D effects, here are a few thoughts and pointers.

3D Basics: To visually experience an object in 3D, that object must be seen through two side-by-side lenses. For example, we are able to experience our world in 3D because we have two  eyes. Each eye observes a given object from a slightly different perspective. The brain combines the eyes’ two observations into the single image that we “see.”  If we lose vision in one of our eyes we, theoretically, no longer see in 3D.

3D Photography: 3D effects in photography are achieved by using trickery to show each eye a slightly different perspective of the same photo. One form of trickery is the anaglyph–one of those retro-looking red and blue images (like this) that requires the use of red and blue lensed glasses. Another form of trickery is the stereoscope, a two-lensed viewer through which the user sees a slide (like this) with two pictures on it.

JitterPic uses the stereoscope model; in fact, the photo effect we create is called wiggle stereoscopy. Because the iPhone only has only one lens, you need to take the time to snap two separate pictures. The two pictures taken from slightly different (more…)

Here are some recent JitterPic (3D Me) reviews on blogs near and far:

In English: iphoneappreviews.net and whatsoniphone.com

In Italian: melamorsicata.it and spaziocellulare.com

In German: iphone-ticker.de and benm.at

In French: iphone.fr and worldissmall.fr

Yes, we’ve changed names. Sorry for any confusion and/or heartbreak. We hope you come to like our new name even better than the old one. One last glimpse of 3D Me…

Now go post some JitterPics to Facebook.