Photoshop CS5 Extended

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The Newsletter of Things Deke: May 04, 2011

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A few months back, I made it my mission to get to the bottom of the 3D features in Photoshop CS5 Extended. After all, I am presently probing those very features in my four-part video series titled Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D for lynda.com. And as you might imagine, I was (back then, and even slightly now) intimidated. There is precious little in the way of definitive here's-how-things-work information on the topic. Lots of demo tuts, but while often amazing, they only take you so far.

So I did a deep dive and found a vast network of functionality. I might even go so far as to characterize 3D as the single biggest upgrade to Photoshop over each of the last three versions. Crazy as it may sound, what many of us regard as a photo editor is gradually transforming into a 3D editing environment.

For example, consider the image above. It includes three photographic images. Otherwise, it's 100% Photoshop. Don't you just want to reach out and touch it? And then put it on and pretend you're Marshall of Dodge City. Read more » 

Did you ever have one of those nights where you had a major project due the next day and you spent all night dreaming about it? A very long time ago, I was working for UPS during the Christmas season, and my girlfriend (at the time) told me I actually started moving boxes in my sleep. Well, I had one of those all-night dreams recently. But it was about Saturn.

That's not a NASA shot captured by a Voyager space probe, btw. That's 100% Photoshop. And yet it's largely scientifically accurate, based on data from that very probe. Read more »