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Well, I was wondering how long it would take for photoshop to have 3D support and it looks like it’s finally here!

photoshop 3D paint article

The 3D paint tools however do not support 32 bit paint mode, which means all your textures must be 8 bit since the render engine does not support float, oh well, while this might be OK for games it is not sufficient for film quality.

Some cool new features are content aware scaling, great for resizing images and building textures.

File formats which are currently supported are:

.3ds 3d studio

collada DAE

Google Earth KMZ

U3D

OBJ

So, it looks like 3ds, DAE and obj files are the only way to get data in and out of maya. Thin on the file format support for 3d and still not clear on how UV is supported, I’m assuming Photoshop reads the data from the obj file.

Zooms and pans are now smooth and updated in real time, GL support thanks to the 3D paint tools I bet, which means you should have some type of gpu graphics card installed to get the benefit. Documents can now be tabbed like in a web browser…

Also, Photoshop now comes in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors, so if your OS can support 64 bit you can finally use all that extra ram! Although, I wonder if all the tools take advantage of the 64 bit architecture….