How To Use 3D Concepts In Photoshop | Adobe Photoshop

Learn How To Use 3D In Photoshop
Understand and display 3D files
Photoshop lets you position and animate 3D models, edit textures and lighting, and choose from several render modes.

3D fundamentals
3D files consist of the following components:

Meshes
Provide the underlying structure of a 3D model. A mesh is often visualized as a wireframe, a skeletal structure built from thousands of individual polygons. A 3D model always has at least one mesh, and may combine multiple meshes. In Photoshop you can view meshes in a variety of render modes, and manipulate meshes independently of each other. While you can’t alter the actual polygons in a mesh, you can change its orientation and transform it by scaling along different axes. You can also create your own 3D meshes, using pre-supplied shapes or by converting existing 2D layers. See 3D Mesh settings.

Materials
A mesh can have one or more materials associated with it, which control the appearance of all or part of the mesh. The material in turn relies on subcomponents called texture maps, whose cumulative effect creates the appearance of a material. The texture map itself is a 2D image file that creates various qualities such as color, pattern, shininess, or bumpiness. A Photoshop material can use up to nine different texture map types to define its overall appearance. See 3D Materials settings.

Lights
Types include Infinite, Spot, Point lights, as well as Image-based lights that wrap around a scene. You can move and adjust color and intensity of existing lights, and add new lights to your 3D scene. See 3D Lights settings.

Open a 3D file
Photoshop can open the following 3D formats: DAE (Collada), OBJ, 3DS, U3D, and KMZ (Google Earth).

Do one of the following:


To open a 3D file on its own, choose File Then Select Open, and select the file.

To add a 3D file as a layer in an open file, choose 3D Then Select New Layer From 3D File, and then select the 3D file. The new layer reflects the dimensions of the open file and presents the 3D model over a transparent background.

3D performance and display preferences
Choose Edit Then Select Preferences Then Select 3D (Windows) or Photoshop Then Select Preferences 3D (Mac OS).

For information about options, hover the pointer over them, and read the Description section at the bottom of the dialog box.
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