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Pattie-F
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August 17, 2021
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P: Photoshop 3D features are being removed

  • 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.

61 replies

Participating Frequently
August 18, 2021

3D is different from "Spherical Panorama" right?

 

Is "Spherical Panorama" going to be gone too since it's in the 3D dropdown menu?

Participating Frequently
August 19, 2021

I really can't believe this!  I do lots of 360 Pano and how do I get into the "Spherical Panorma" to edit my tripod now ???

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 20, 2021

jeremy, can you provide some deails about using substance 3d sampler to edit 360 sperical panoramas? 


You may find these useful:

 

https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/sadoc/version-3-0-215286170.html  (scroll down this one)

 

https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/sadoc/hdri-tools-215286086.html

 

Dave