{"id":12311,"date":"2007-04-11T01:01:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/04\/great-3d-add-ons-for-photoshop.html"},"modified":"2007-04-11T01:01:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:01:53","slug":"great_3d_add_ons_for_photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/great_3d_add_ons_for_photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Great 3D add-ons for Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No sooner did Adobe announce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshop\/photoshopextended\/\">Photoshop CS3 Extended<\/a> than we started seeing developers pop up with interesting new solutions.&#160; Among those just announced: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strata has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strata.com\/strata3d_ps_plugins.asp\">three new plug-ins<\/a> for Photohop Extended, all demonstrated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strata.com\/podcasts\/3din_large_m4v.asp\">this four-minute video.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Strata Design<\/u> lets you drop 3D objects into 2D photos, matching perspective and lighting.&#160; The trick is that it leverages Vanishing Point&#8217;s new ability to export perspective planes as 3D objects.&#160; From there the plug-in can drop in models, move them around, and do a high-quality rendering pass to make the models fit the scene.<\/li>\n<li><u>Strata Photo<\/u>  can transform a series of photos (taken of an object sitting on a specially printed piece of paper) into a 3D model for use in Photoshop.<\/li>\n<li><u>Strata Live<\/u> connects Photoshop with Acrobat, exporting 3D models for viewing inside PDFs.&#160; (Did you know that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/10\/fireworks_does.html\">Acrobat does 3D<\/a>?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>3Dconnexion (a part of Logitech) has announced that their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dconnexion.com\/products\/3a1d.php\">SpaceNavigator<\/a> for Photoshop.&#160;  Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1c4L_Xs3E2w\">a video demonstration<\/a> in which marketing mgr. Tad Shelby shows the device controlling a 3D model in Photoshop Extended.&#160; At less than a hundred bucks, it seems like a steal for any serious 3D user (and it works for 2D, too). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>More good stuff is on the way as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NewTek has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/plugins\/photoshop\/\">announced<\/a> LightWave Rendition for Adobe Photoshop, bringing LightWave&#8217;s lighting and rendering tools to Photoshop (I&#8217;ll link to more details when they make &#8217;em live);<\/li>\n<li>eFrontier, the folks behind Poser, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgw.com\/ME2\/dirmod.asp?sid=82BD6FFF9E96456083059BCB2FCBDBAD&amp;nm=Home&amp;type=news&amp;mod=News&amp;mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&amp;tier=3&amp;nid=340CC7ECB81340BABAC6692803711580\">plan to release a free exporter<\/a> to make their models compatible with Photoshop;<\/li>\n<li>Daz 3D is cooking up some great stuff as well;<\/li>\n<li>And various other parties have irons in the fire as well (more details to come).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>All in all, it&#8217;s really exciting to see developers already building upon the 3D story in Photoshop Extended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sooner did Adobe announce Photoshop CS3 Extended than we started seeing developers pop up with interesting new solutions.&#160; Among those just announced: Strata has announced three new plug-ins for Photohop Extended, all demonstrated in this four-minute video. Strata Design lets you drop 3D objects into 2D photos, matching perspective and lighting.&#160; The trick is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}