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Marshian
Marshian
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August 31, 2021
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P: Please keep 3D features

  • August 31, 2021
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I recently got a notification that Adobe will be ending/disabling the 3D functions in Photoshop. This is tough news because I have spent a lot of time learning and working in this area. I rely on the 3D functions for work and to make a living. Then I found out Adobe will not have another program that will take the place. The removal of the 3D functions without a program to take the place removes most of the value of having the 3D cloud membership. Please keep them! 

I'm somewhat aware of why this is happening. I dont understand most of the reasons.

I'm aware I can use an older version for about 2 years.

I created this 3D model in photoshop. Can you see why I hate to loose this functionality? 

 

    9 replies

    Q
    QuestionAmsterdam
    Participant
    March 28, 2022

    Hi Adobe team, 

     

    For a photoshop user who rarely uses the 3D mode it is great to have this feature. I heard you are removing this in the future versions and hope you will reconsider. Buying an extra €600,- 3D package a year is not interesting for the sporadic times I use 3D models. I hope you reconsider scrapping the whole 3d functionality. 

    L
    Lus-DStar
    Participant
    March 19, 2022

    Hello, Adobe!

    I am using more and more often 3D rotations and extrusions in my compositions/layouts.

    I understand 3D is discontinued from PS as we speak, but please make a basic functionality for 3D layers.

    It is not nice to use XD or After Effects to rotate a layer and after that to import it in PS as PNG.

    I am not sure why Illustrator cannot rotate images.

    We do not need complex lights and environments like Stager, but a basic rotation and maybe an extrusion like old Illustrator would be VERY HELPUL!!!

     

    Many thanks in advance.

    davescm
    Community Expert
    davescmCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 21, 2021

    Yes, it does and Adobe staff do read them. My response was just to your original comment that you didn't understand the reasons

    Dave

    Marshian
    MarshianAuthor
    Known Participant
    October 21, 2021

    Hi Dave. Does my post here work as a wishlist request? Someone in Adobe chat recomended I do this.

    davescm
    Community Expert
    davescmCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 21, 2021

    Adobe are now one of the Gold corporate members of the Blender Development fund

     

    Dave

    Marshian
    MarshianAuthor
    Known Participant
    October 21, 2021

    Thanks for the reference to Blender. I understand how the industry has to grow and change I just never would have excpected photoshop to completely remove these features

    Marshian
    MarshianAuthor
    Known Participant
    October 21, 2021

    Here is another creation I made in photoshop 

    davescm
    Community Expert
    davescmCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 21, 2021

    The change was driven by changes in the operating systems with OpenGL/CL being deprecated. This would have meant a complete rewrite of 3D functionality which in reality was years out of date anyway.

     

    See here : https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html

     

    Adobe's 3D functionality is now in 3D Stager, 3D Substance Painter and 3D Substance Designer.

    Modelling is still missing but is more effectively addressed in dedicated 3D  applications such as Blender, which is free and also has faster and more accurate GPU based rendering than Photoshop ever did. Adobe provide integration from Substance apps to Blender.

     

    Dave

     

    Alex_R84
    Alex_R84
    Inspiring
    August 31, 2021

    I am confused as to the real reason this is happening.

     

    3D is critical to my workflow, and losing it is a massive loss. I will now need to use other software like Blender etc to get the jobs done I could have just used PS for.

     

    This decision is making my professional life more difficult and Photoshop less useful.

     

    I urge the team to reconsider.

      c.pfaffenbichler
      Community Expert
      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      August 31, 2021
      I am confused as to the real reason this is happening.

      Some Adobe employees are active on this Forum, but if there was some sinister reason they knew about they obviously wouldn’t be at liberty to tell us. 

       

      So my assumption as just another Photoshop user: 

      3D in Photoshop was limited anyway and now that Adobe offers the Substance suite it would seem like a waste of resources to maintain similar functionality in several applications. 

      I guess the same could be argued about Photoshop’s animation capabilities and who knows if it might not come to that? 

       

      @davescm  wrote a good reply on the 3D-removal issue but I can’t find the thread at current. 

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