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Photoshop Plug-In for Google 3D Warehouse now available in the Adobe Labs

Adobe and Google today announced the Photoshop CS3 Extended plug-in for the Google 3D Warehouse, enabling Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended users to take further advantage of the software’s powerful compositing, painting and image-editing toolset for editing 3D content. With the plug-in, users will be able to query and download free 3D content from the Google 3D Warehouse, Google’s free online repository for 3D models and content, directly within Photoshop CS3 Extended. 3D Content then can be placed, manipulated and used in composites with the new 3D tools in Photoshop CS3 Extended.

The plug-in is available for free download from the Adobe Labs web site. Once downloaded, the plug-in opens a dialog box that connects directly to Google’s 3D Warehouse via the Internet. Users can browse and search the 3D Warehouse for content, and download and save selections to their hard drive. Downloaded models will be saved in the COLLADA format. With support for industry standard 3D formats, including COLLADA, Photoshop CS3 Extended opens 3D models as 3D layers. Users can then access the textures applied to model surfaces, enhance them with Photoshop CS3 Extended and its wide range of editing and painting tools, and save or composite them into a 2-D image.

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BeLight Software releases freeware Image Tricks 2.0

135886071 6c4643fa36 m BeLight Software releases freeware Image Tricks 2.0BeLight Software has released Image Tricks v2.0, a new version of their freeware image generator that uses Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger’s” Core Image technology to generate visual effects to digital images.

Image Tricks is used to generate backgrounds, web design illustrations, print graphics and more using about 40 different Core Image-based effects and filters. Eleven different image generators are included in the free version–a USD$9.95 “Pro” version adds six additional image generators and about 30 masks that can be applied to an image.

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