astigmatism in Photoshop

[David]

Any Photoshop experts know how to simulate astigmatism in Photoshop CS5? Gaussian Blur works good for regular blur, but I'm trying to create a bit of a double image, with lines in one direction appearing darker.

[SJKReid]

I tried something there but the website says it won't allow me to post links?

If you go to Flickr and search for my account, TerraHurts, you'll see what I did Not sure if you can search for people on it tho...failing that give me permission and I'll post them up here

Great site here, seems more active than when I looked at it back in 2006, so thought I'd sign up. I'm a Myope myself with full faith in the method, but I'm very lazy :S

[David]

You can post links after 5 posts. But I found it

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The straight, rather than curved, double images are more what I want, but I guess I can actually just add another layer in Photoshop with transparency and that will work.