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New Strata 3D Plug-Ins for Photoshop
On this week’s episode of Photoshop User TV Dave Cross demonstrated one of the new 3D plug-ins for Photoshop CS3 Extended, available from Strata. He uses the new Strata Design 3D[in] to import a generic 3D model and give it some lighting effects using the Strata’s familiar interface. With Dave being a relative newcomer to 3D apps, you can see how easy it is to get through the basics and achieve some really interesting effects. Also available is the Strata Foto[in] which can take a series of photos and turn them into a 3D model and Strata Live[in] which lets you generate Live 3D web and PDF pages from Photoshop layouts. Get more info about these plug-ins here.
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