Thursday, January 23, 2014
Photoshop Now Supports 3-D Printing
Popular Science: Good news, 3-D printing enthusiasts: Adobe thinks your weird little hobby could actually be a thing! The company's adding support for 3-D modeling files to its Photoshop software, letting users manipulate objects, then send them off to a home 3-D printer or a third-party service, like Shapeways, for fabrication.
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Cool, I like that the more artistic and visually pleasing aspects of 2D design are migration into 3D modeling. Current CAD and 3D modeling programs are about as good at creating paintings as they are beautifully sculpted detailed objects. While Photoshop can think in 2D pixels, it might become possible to edit models to be 3D printed in terms of the print resolution layers.
This seems like a really cool idea. I really like that multiple programs have begun to support 3D printing. This gives you a choice of what program is easiest for you to work with and manipulate. I am 3D printing most of my latest design project and I've had to get alot of help with the 3D drafting in cad. I wonder if using photoshop would prove to be easier for I need to do?
Well it looks like it just became that much easier to start exploring 3D modeling. Photoshop is already a program I am familiar with and I am now excited to check out this new functionality. It also looks like 3D printing is becoming even more mainstream if an incredibly popular program like Photoshop is integrating easy tools to work with 3D models. It's also nice that they have implemented the actual printing technology into the program so you don't have to deal with another program just to print your file.
I don't really understand how this is anything amazingly new. Photoshop already had 3D modeling capabilities and could accept obj files. It just sounds like photoshop is charging $50 bucks to remove one small step of saving the file and then reopening it in the 3D printer software or submitting it to shape ways. I'm not a fan of this and don't think I'll be sold any time soon.
I have to agree with Sam. Photoshop isn't doing anything super mind-blowing here. Photoshop has had 3D capabilities for quite some time now and I suppose the only really upside to this is that many people are already familiar with this program. Perhaps allowing one to use a program that they are already familiar with will allow a greater variety of individuals to access this technology.
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