3D Photoshop - 3D Filmstrip Collection In Production

The next collection, 3D Filmstrips, is underway. I was having way too much fun with this as I started realizing how just 'one' 3D filmstrip can create hundreds of unique images.

All of these images came from the same 3D filmstrip model. I only changed the camera rotation for most of these images. The gold film strip was created by adding a yellow hue to the reflection image.

The frames and sprokets are in a Illustrator Smart Object so the size, shape and frequency can easily be customized.

I've seen dozens of tutorials that show how to distort images onto a filmstrip. The next version of this model will have a template to copy and paste your images directly on the filmstrip. Is 3D for Photoshop great or what?

Photoshop Turns 20

From touching up photos to creating photoreal 3D objects, Photoshop has done it all.

Real 3D Photoshop Tutorial: Product Box

Nice tutorial using real 3D objects in Photoshop to create a product box from scratch.

3D Inspiration: 20 Impressive 3D Graffiti Artworks

Growing up in the hip hop / club scene has given me an appreciation for graffiti art. Check these 3D graffiti pieces. I plan on doing some 3D Photoshop models of 3D graffiti.

Photoshop 3D Effect Tutorial: Credit Card

Great Photoshop tutorial on creating a realistic credit card. This will come in handy for creating a 3D image texture for my 3D Credit Card Model.

Real 3D Photoshop Tutorial: 3D Light Beams

Very, very cool technique by Corey Barker, Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com. Using the New Volume From Layers command you create 3D visible light beams.

Doing volumetric light beams in 3D can really be time consuming. This is a great real time solution.

Illustrator Tutorial: Texture Techniques

Although this tutorial is primarily Illustrator based, it brings up some good techniques which can be converted into repeating texture patterns for 3D texturing.

Strata 3D Tutorials: Mr Christopher's 3D Blog

Chris is a veteran 3D artist with amazing skills for producing Photoreal 3D images. You'll find many tutorials for Strata 3D software on this blog.

A Basic Guide To Photoshop's 3D Tools

Here's a great overview of Photoshop's 3D tools on PSDTUTS.

Quick Project: 3D Bottle Label

The other night I was showing a friend some of the 3D Photoshop projects I've been working on. The next day he called and said he was designing a bottle label for a client's product. He had done the profile of the bottle and the label artwork in Illustrator.

20 minutes after receiving the files I sent him a Photoshop file with a 3D object; textured and ready to present to his client. The great thing about 3D technology is that you can grab the bottle and rotate it in real time, and save out an image from any angle of the bottle.

If you had done it the old fashioned way, you'd only have one angle of the bottle (the angle you drew).