Photoshop 3D

3D programs are great tools for graphic artists, but if you're a 2D artist used to editing large images in Photoshop quickly and easily, you may find 3D programs stifling or frustrating when it comes to achieving a specific look, or making final adjustments to colours, tone and overall feel. And rightly so!

While it can be relatively quick to build up a scene from nothing, workflow quickly deteriorates to a slow pace at the test-rendering stage. As we'll show you in this tutorial, when you're wrestling with a particularly troublesome section of a 3D program, re-rendering constantly to check the results, it's time to change your workflow and let Photoshop take up the slack.

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