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August 17, 2021
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As of Photoshop 22.5, released in August 2021, Photoshop’s 3D features will be discontinued. 3D features have enjoyed long success within Photoshop over the course of 10+ years, however the personal computing industry has recently been transitioning away from use of OpenGL (having to do specifically with the use of GPUs, which is critical for 3D) toward native GPU APIs, which ultimately began the slow deterioration of Photoshop’s 3D features, all of which needed OpenGL. As difficult of a decision as removing 3D features from Photoshop is, the silver lining is that the next generation of 3D content creation tools from Adobe is already here. Check out the Substance line of 3D products.

For more details, please visit Photoshop discontinued 3D Q&A.

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Tazz222

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Although I understand the theory behind the removal of the 3D tools in Photoshop; I am really annoyed at the fact that, now in order to get the 3D tools plus the Lighting options, I am going to have to pay for yet another subscription to cover these two things I used daily and depended on. I have solved the lighting features issue by re:installing my CS6, so when I need lighting I switch to that.. But as for being able to make normal maps which I do every day, I am really really upset. I cannot afford to pay for yet another subscription just to get one or two tools I need. I really wish Adobe would come up with a solution to that.. I mean come on folks give us financially challenged folks a break!

jane-e

Community Expert

@Tazz222 wrote:

I have solved the lighting features issue by re:installing my CS6, so when I need lighting I switch to that..

Hi Tazz,

Did you follow this link from Pattie for details? Instead of CS6, it outlines another choice:

"For more details, please visit Photoshop discontinued 3D Q&A."

"For a short time, a Technology Preview preference can be used to emulate the last known working state for 3D features. Go to Photoshop > Preferences > Technology Previews and check the box “Deactivate Native Canvas”, and restart Photoshop. Note that this operating mode is increasingly unreliable in modern operating systems, and we recommend using Photoshop version 22.2 (from February 2021) if you need more stable performance with Photoshop’s 3D features. "

You can have more than one version of Photoshop installed.

Jane

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Tazz222

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@Tazz222 wrote:

...as I would love to have just photohsop and Illustrator but not possible unless I want to pay top price for all apps which is impossible. I really preferred it when you could just purchase Photoshop outright and own it.

You never owned Photoshop outright — you owned a license to use it and were limited to the terms and conditions of that license:

https://www.allbusiness.com/the-difference-between-buying-and-licensing-software-928-1.html

You can also subscribe to a single app plan. If you only want Illustrator in addition to the Photography plan, it is more cost effective to add the annual single app plan for Illustrator than it is to get the entire All Apps plan.

The Substance apps aren't new; they are only new to Adobe. Before that they were available by subscription from Allegorithmic. If Adobe had not acquired them, those apps would still be a separate subscription, just not through Adobe.

If you are getting crashing issues, be sure to include your email on the crash reports, then post about the crash in a new thread and tag it as a "bug" not "discussion". Adobe Staff reads the crash reports and responds to the threads reporting crashes in the Bugs section.

You can have multiple copies of Photoshop installed, so keep PS 22.2 for 3D and turn off automatic updates in the Creative Cloud app. Be sure to choose to keep previous versions when installing new versions.

I hope this helps,

Jane

Forum volunteer

You never owned Photoshop outright — you owned a license to use it and were limited to the terms and conditions of that license:

OK fine licensed .. but still had the program.

And where is the option to subscribe to a single app plan?? Was nothing like that available when I last looked.

kajs98171944

Participant

So generating normal maps in photshop is dead?

Ussnorway7605025

Legend

you have the wrong tool selected

but to answer your question, yes Adobe has dropped making normal maps inside Photoshop and its past time to move on

E Keith Borders

Known Participant

Here's the problem with using Substance. 3D was included with Photoshop, in which we must buy a plan to get Photoshop. Substance is a SEPARATE plan and cost's $30 or more. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't want to pay for Substance, which has a larger learning curve, than photoshop. Now if Adobe was including Substance in the place of the native 3D that comes with photoshop, that's another thing. Futhermore. Why is 3D even available in the latest version of Photoshop, when it can't be used? I clearly understand that I could always download the latest version of PS with a stable 3D, however that version has other bugs that V23 doesn't. i.e. liquify. Maybe someone could explain all over this to me. All i know is my clients aren't going to be happy because I have to take more time to complete a project, which in turn is going to cost them more because of my time and effort. I was much easier and quicker, the way it was. I can't even have both photoshops open at the same time. Now I'm gonna have to load both versions separately or on 2 different laptops. Many people can't afford this luxury.

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Ngoy5F9C

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this brand new functionality (removal of the 3D functionality) seems to me something more ... however, while browsing the community, I asked myself in 2022, what is ADOBE PHOTOSHOP going to bring us again as a novelty?

I came across something interesting ...

learn all about the main new features of ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 2022 and its user manuals only from this link

[link removed by moderator]

Reverend Rob

Participant

Adobe have made a move that really has an unfortunate effect on us customers. All I need to be able to do is add 3D text to some of my images and now I need to pay another full price subscription, essentially doubling my monthly sub, just to be able to add in some 3D words because the only app that does this is Substance 3D Stager.....anyone got any ideas on how I can do this with any other packages please?

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defaultbh3l4sw7j06u

Participating Frequently

If you use illustrator, please take a look at the recent updated features for 3D.

I think it will provide what you need for 3D type and much more.

Dave

Samolevsky

Participating Frequently

How about Filter > 3D > Generate Bump/Normal map?
Are these awesome features will be removed as well? That's very frustrating.

davescm

Community Expert

Yes those features use the 3D engine so will be removed.

Dave

csaper

Participating Frequently

@Pattie-F On the same subject, is it in the near-term roadmap to integrate 3D Materials into Photoshop (as they have been in last week's release of Illustrator 2022?)

I just received a post-event summary email from the Adobe MAX team that included the following:

"Check out the incredible auto-masking and Neural Filter tools in Photoshop, Substance 3D materials integrated right into Illustrator and Photoshop..."

MicahBurke

Community Expert

Materials, but not objects.

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Mark Lloyd

Participant

Tried to edit a pic from my Insta 360 One X this morning and have discovered Adobe has removed support for editing spherical panoramas from the latest version of Photoshop. I'm speechless!!! All I need to do is tweak the exposure and clone out the tripod what do I do now????

MicahBurke

Community Expert

Your only options at this point are to 'Deactivate Native Canvas' in preferences or install older version of Photoshop, v22.0 or to find a different app, until Adobe get's their collective heads out of their rears. You might check out Hugin or PTGui.

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Global-Trance

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Last night I got in touch with support via chat. They were able to generate a downloadable link for me to get version 22. It's exactly version 22.2 but I think it's good enough for now until they properly allow us to download it through Creative Cloud again.

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Global-Trance

Participant

Sorry, I mean, "It's not exactly version 22.2...".

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Bernard Bonipulii

Inspiring

Apple started this mess. Blecchhhh.

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+are+companies+dropping+opengl+support

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w5EF9

Known Participant

if Adobe really wanted to make this work they could they just dont need to because we will still have to use the software regardless, I dont think in all the years of using adobe products they have actually removed big features and its not just the 3d capabilities.

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fishstick600

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Has anyone been able to install 22.2 now that 23 has been released? I've been trying and trying but the only versions I have available to install are 23.0 and 22.5.2.. really frustrating. I tried reaching out to Adobe support a couple nights ago and the person I spoke to was clueless, I had to copy and paste quotes from the Q&A to them...

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Global-Trance

Participant

I've been looking too! How can I rollback to 22.2?

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