I've never been able to see a thing in Magic Eye pictures no matter which way I tried. So... no.
I like the shark one too; the surface of the water looks interesting.
I just recently (within the past year) learned how to do them the right way... Before I would do it by crossing my eyes slightly, so that I would see the 3-D image but it would be depressed instead of popping up towards me. I could never figure out what the image was supposed to be, because I was just seeing a "mold" of it. Then I learned that you are actually supposed to do the opposite of crossing your eyes - moving them apart so that you are focusing on an imaginary point behind the image - in order to see the image correctly. Now it's hader for me to do the former than the latter.
i think im seeing the wrong images. I see cougars and people.
You might be crossing your eyes instead of "looking through" the images. Before I learned how to do it correctly, I would see things that were totally off from what they actually were.
I like the shark one. (That is, the first shark one -- with the swimmer.)
*The principle behind magic eye has a lot to do with making yourself "see double" until the repeated images join together. They give you some kind of overly complicated instructions about holding pages up to your nose and other such bullcrap, but it rarely works well. Always works better if you just make yourself see double. Although of course this means that if one eye doesn't work so well, you are unlikely ever to be able to see magic eye.*
It doesn't matter what I do, I can't see anything else in the pictures.
Well truth be known, it's probably not the best thing for your eyes to be doing magic eye off a computer screen, anyway.
When I crossed my eyes, I saw three photos across the screen. I don't know if that is what was supposed to happen.
When I crossed my eyes, I saw three photos across the screen. I don't know if that is what was supposed to happen.
Pretty much, yeah. Next, concentrate on the middle of the three and bring that one into focus. Once the images are properly aligned it should become 3-D.
To look at the Magic Eye things you have to focus on an imaginary point behind the image, which is often difficult to do. Try facing the image and then "space out" so that you are no longer focused on the screen... Your pupils should drift apart a bit and then you might be able to see the three-dimensional image.
*Don't* cross your eyes, unless it's required -- it's usually not. You want to be almost wall-eyed, which is perfectly normal: Stare at infinity. Depending on how your computer is set up this may be easy -- look out the window or at a far wall. Crossing your eyes can be a strain but looking in the distance just means relaxing your eye-steering muscles and shouldn't cause you any trouble or discomfort.
Crossing your eyes may be a starting point if that is easier -- it is likely to give you the intended image in reverse.
...But yes the trick is to look past the image, not nearer.
