Russell Brown

The Third Dimension

An overview of the new 3-D editing tools now available in Photoshop CS4.
Article Author: 
Stephen Romaniello
Publication Name: 
Sign & Digital Graphics
Publication Date: 
05/01/2009

For years, Photoshop has been the foremost image manipulation software empowering designers to create and modify images for print, multimediai and the Web. Now, the newest version of the software, CS4 Extended, has a group of 3-D modeling features that cani be used to create and print presentation-quality 2-D and 3-D composites.

Photoshop CS4 opens and supportsi 3-D files that have been created in Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8, 3D Studio Max, Alias, Maya and Google Earth. 3-D images can also be rendered from scratch using a 2-D image as a starting point.

The Third Dimension

A overview of the new 3-D editing tools now available in Photoshop CS4.
Article Author: 
Stephen Romaniello
Publication Name: 
Sign & Digital Graphics
Publication Date: 
05/01/2009


Figure 1: The 3D Panels enable you to modify various basic characteristics of a 3-D image.


Figure 2: The 3-D menu displays a list of commands that render 3-D objects.