ABSTRACT

Many Photoshop users had been working with 2D images for years before the new 3D and animation features finally merged with the new versions of Adobe Photoshop. This chapter focuses on general 3D terms. In the 3D world, the 3D object is known as the 3D model. Though Photoshop supports only using one camera, when animators import a 3D model that includes multiple cameras, Photoshop can treat these cameras as different viewing angles for the model when animators import the model to Photoshop as a 3DS file. The light can be either imported with the 3D object or created from scratch in Photoshop. Light types and intensity varies from one object to another, and even in the same object, based on the 3D scene or the effect applied to the object. Photoshop and other 3D applications provide different types of rendering options for the document; each rendering option is based on model options, such as polygons, edges, and vertices.