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[Zorana Gee] [Senior Product Manager, Photoshop] 3D in Photoshop adds a lot of flexibility
to your designs in terms of lighting, positioning, and realistic effects.
However, some of the things I like best about 3D in Photoshop
is how I can use familiar tools but for 3D objects.
In Photoshop CS6 Extended,
we added the ability to use your Alignment options
in the Move tool on 3D meshes.
Lining up multiple meshes like this is much easier.
Let's take a look at 2 of these bottles.
Here I have 2 separate meshes that are in the same layer
or on the same scene so that they share the same lighting.
Up here on the left I have an alternate view menu
that allows me to view my scene from a different camera position.
This helps a lot when aligning things in 3D.
I can change the camera view here or even swap this view with that of a canvas.
If I need to zoom in here, I can hold down Option or Alt and drag up or down.
Next I'll view the meshes and shift click to select both bottles.
You can see that the cage now includes both selected meshes.
With my Move tool selected and my multiple meshes selected,
you can see that the alignment functions in the Options bar are all enabled.
For this, I'll go ahead and align bottom edges,
then align horizontal, and lastly, distribute horizontal
so there's equal spacing between the centers.
By default, Photoshop will avoid overlapping the meshes.
But you can override this by holding down the Shift key.
Another useful function when aligning objects is the Snap Object to Ground Plane
where Photoshop will take the closest point of the mesh
from the ground and snap it to the ground plane.
And of course, when I'm finished I'll need to kick off a final render
for all the final lighting and effects.
For some really great tutorials that cover 3D and Photoshop,
be sure to check out these links.
Here we have Daniel Presedo's YouTube channel
that covers a lot that you need to know about 3D in Photoshop CS6 Extended
as well as Photoshop Dimensions, the digital magazine
that you can view on any of your devices.
[Adobe]
