Comments on: Video: Using 3D stock objects in a Photoshop scene

By: Smashing Photoshop

Smashing Photoshop — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:07:50 +0000

Its great the way 3d assets can be used to create a 3d scene gives me an idea of creating a busy new york street with 3d buildings, roads and street lights.

By: Smashing Photoshop

Smashing Photoshop — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:03:17 +0000

Its great the way 3d assets can be used to create a 3d scene gives me an idea of creating a busy new york street with 3d buildings, roads and street lights.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:31:58 +0000

CS5 – Yes.
No need to bicker about poster resolution. Try to do what the guy in the video did at page size and 300 dpi. Let me know how it works out.

By: Jeff Foster - the PixelPainter

Jeff Foster - the PixelPainter — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:40:13 +0000

This isn’t BS – everything he shows I have been able to reproduce, albeit on a slower machine. The problems I’ve encountered to date are 3D models with too much detail (fail) and the serious lack of animation controls on the timeline (keyframe interpolation similar to AE). Importing these 3D layers into AE is a joke since lighting controls are fixed in PS and interaction with AE’s 3D planes is non-existent.
Adobe has a long ways to go to make any real 3D progress in either PS or AE. They need to get their act together in either app or the way the two talk to each other and give us at least a usable work-around to this crippled workflow for animation/motion graphics folks!

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:39:59 +0000

Have you tried CS5 on such a system?
300dpi at that size – is that always necessary? Printing through an inkjet for a poster I would expect 240 or possibly even 180 to be plenty but perhaps you have another output method that always needs 300?

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:32:43 +0000

64 bit with 18 gigs of RAM should be doing the trick. : )

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:25:45 +0000

24″x36″ at 300 dpi is about the minimum. That’s 7200px x 10800px.

By: Scott Valentine

Scott Valentine — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:46:44 +0000

You may have a point, Craig. Please post your poster dimensions and the required ppi resolution. I’d like to see how bogged down I get including 3D elements.

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:28:08 +0000

A good reason to move up to the 64bit version and add sufficient RAM to your system.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:40:25 +0000

Cool but a little bit of dishonesty in the video. That’s probably about a 800 pixel image. NOT a poster. Unfortunately PS can barely (if at all) handle 3D at the actual resolution/size required for a poster – at least in my experience. If you’re making web “posters” go for it.

By: Ken Toney

Ken Toney — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:50:27 +0000

This is awesome, I will definately try this. I have not used the 3d tools in Cs4 much but I am going to get into it now that I have Cs5(extended). I am waiting on the software folks to update (NIK,OnOne, etc). Everyone so far has told me about a month on the upgrades.