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Fun With 3D

 

Having some fun with the 3D tools in Photoshop CS4 Extended.

 

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

39 Comments

  1. Ciursa Ionut said on — April 17, 2009 @ 4:44 pm

    I haven’t tried the 3D tools inside Photoshop CS4 Extended until now. I have learned something new from this tutorial, so thanks a lot!

  2. Dian Garber said on — April 17, 2009 @ 5:01 pm

    Thanks for the great tutorial!

  3. Rafal2228 said on — April 17, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

    Really, really cool stuff :D Thanks for tut ;)

  4. photophan said on — April 17, 2009 @ 6:38 pm

    Nice tricks, thanks!

  5. lucas said on — April 17, 2009 @ 6:41 pm

    haw haw 1st post!

  6. lucas said on — April 17, 2009 @ 6:51 pm

    dude this is awesome i just got the adobe creative suite 4(even though i am only 12) and needed some (more)tuts for 3d AND animation… THANKS!!!!!!

  7. David Wood said on — April 17, 2009 @ 10:21 pm

    Great tut, Corey!

  8. haya said on — April 17, 2009 @ 10:45 pm

    you always awesome

  9. Clarence said on — April 18, 2009 @ 3:27 am

    this is awesome. I just finished a project where I did this same type of thing to a photo in Premiere. But to have full control in Photoshop over 3d animation is exactly what I’ve been looking for.

  10. Peter said on — April 18, 2009 @ 5:03 am

    This is just awesome, never could have thought of it myself.
    Thank you very much

  11. Graham Lance said on — April 18, 2009 @ 8:40 am

    Great:))

  12. Ralf said on — April 18, 2009 @ 11:20 pm

    u r the best
    thank u.

  13. cristina said on — April 19, 2009 @ 10:55 am

    this is awesome! sucks i still works on photoshop 7 =(

  14. Matt said on — April 19, 2009 @ 12:57 pm

    Hey Cory, what can I say…. Sweet!

    Also, I am using your video training at “Kelby Training”.

    Everyone should check out Kelby Training, great tools for everyone that really wants to learn, photoshop and much more.

  15. Hackerz10001 said on — April 20, 2009 @ 2:00 am

    I cant get my 3D to work.. any help?

  16. Connor said on — April 20, 2009 @ 6:10 am

    Best tutorial you’ve done in quite along time, guna go experiment with those techniques, thanks ^_^

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  18. leroy said on — April 22, 2009 @ 10:59 am

    with something like that 3D…how can i save it to my flickr account? help

  19. Jake said on — April 22, 2009 @ 9:28 pm

    I need a new graphics card! I can’t use the 3D Tool :’( but good tutorial :D

  20. photo retouching said on — April 23, 2009 @ 3:32 am

    I find this website incredibly useful and full of tips and shortcuts. It really keeps me up to date with what`s out there and all the new innovations. Thank you very much Corey

  21. chris said on — April 23, 2009 @ 8:57 am

    great tutorial, can’t wait to try this out. Hadn’t a clue what to do with the extended

  22. Talylor said on — April 23, 2009 @ 5:38 pm

    Very good job i love the 3D tools in CS4 im trying to save up to get it all i got right now is Cs3, great job

  23. bodotdot said on — April 24, 2009 @ 10:57 am

    Nice effect–simply explained. Thank you.

  24. SK said on — April 24, 2009 @ 8:50 pm

    This tutorial is awesome i like the actual animation. I feel i will doing some animations myself.

  25. marcos padilla said on — April 26, 2009 @ 10:11 pm

    woooooow i like it a lot
    thanks from mexico corey . i will do it myself right now

  26. Joe said on — April 28, 2009 @ 4:55 pm

    The animation aspect of CS4 has after effects written alllll over it ;P

  27. TL said on — April 29, 2009 @ 4:23 am

    might be a silly question but can I do this with normal CS4 or do I need Extended version to get the 3D options?

  28. lizzy idika said on — April 30, 2009 @ 4:18 pm

    I haven’t us the 3D tools before, but i find it very cool. I’ll keep working on the techniques. Thanks, its been a refreshing day. I wish i could get more tutorial on 3D and Animation.

  29. josh said on — May 3, 2009 @ 2:44 pm

    i have photoshop extended but i cant use 3d tools whats up with that?

  30. ramya said on — May 7, 2009 @ 5:48 am

    thank you for your tutorials

  31. QawareeqEmo said on — May 8, 2009 @ 3:28 am

    Nice!

  32. Sven said on — May 9, 2009 @ 5:15 pm

    Awesome tut. But that pen pressur won’t work for me does anybody have idea why?

  33. Silentman said on — May 13, 2009 @ 2:18 am

    Awesome, really neat tricks, can’t wait to try this at home hehehe

  34. megyen said on — May 15, 2009 @ 1:19 am

    Awsome tut!

  35. ErroR said on — May 26, 2009 @ 1:54 pm

    That’s very very nice, would be nicer if you’d copy the first key frame to the 6th second, so it would go smoothly back to the beginning and loop

  36. Alex said on — June 19, 2009 @ 11:39 am

    Where is that “Option key”?

  37. Tyler said on — December 23, 2009 @ 5:15 pm

    Great tutorial (Just got Cs4! REALLY Excited) except.. can’t find the pen pressure option under the brush options do you need a fancy naote pad things(sorry can’t recall the correct name). Keep up the great work!

  38. Tyler said on — December 23, 2009 @ 5:59 pm

    sorry for the double post.. I found the pen pressure option(doesn’t do anything) and I can’t get my layers to merge to 3d… can anyone help?

  39. Marlon said on — January 30, 2010 @ 11:35 pm

    WOW this tutorial was tha best i’ve ever seem……koool, really kool, really really Kool……Love it!!!!

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