Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
advertising, industrial design, and 3D games. Strata provides diferent 3D
solutions, and its tools integrate directly with Photoshop and allow you to
export your Strata 3D project to Photoshop easily. The Strata package lets
you export the 3D project as either a 2D image or a 3D Photoshop layer that
you can easily edit and modify through the 3D tools.
Unlike DAZ Studio, Strata provides 3D modeling tools and features similar to
any other 3D applications, which allows you to start a modeling project from
scratch. Strata provides four main 3D solutions that all integrate with
Photoshop and other Adobe applications, such as Adobe Acrobat:
Note: You can download
a 30-day trial version
from the Strata website:
http://www.strata.com/
products/.
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Strata Foto 3D CX: This is one of the comprehensive tools that lets you
build 3D models based on digital photographs that are taken from
diferent angles and sides. Foto 3D builds a 3D mesh based on these
images and markers, as you will see later.
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Strata Unfold 3D CX: Unfold 3D integrates with Adobe Illustrator and
Photoshop to create 3D packages designed for industrial and advertising
applications.
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Strata Design 3D CX: Design 3D creates 3D models and 3D content from
scratch. Also, you can send the 3D content directly to Photoshop. Design
3D provides you with the tools to create 3D textures and lighting for the
3D content.
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Strata Live 3D CX: Live 3D provides a solution to create 3D interactive
content for the web and Adobe Acrobat PDFs. It also provides 3D
presentation that does not require plug-ins.
All of these applications provide integration with Adobe products, especially
Adobe Photoshop; next up is an overview of two of these applications.
Strata Foto 3D CX
One of the 3D tasks that used to take much time and efort is creating 3D
models of real-life models. It is even harder for Photoshop users who do not
have much experience with 3D modeling. Foto 3D provides an easy method
for turning real objects into 3D models. The concept behind Foto 3D is based
on digital photos of the object taken from diferent views and angles and
then translated into a 3D mesh that is textured with the real photos of
the object.
In the following brief exercise, you will see how to send a 3D project from
Strata Foto 3D to Photoshop based on one of the existing project examples
in Strata:
1. Open Strata Foto 3D CX.
2. Choose File
>
Open and navigate in the Strata iles for Examples
>
Horse.
3. When you load the Horse model, notice the digital photos that are used
to form the model. Below the sequence images, you can see the
generated 3D model. On the left side, choose the navigation tool from
the Viewpoint area.