Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P20:If you are reading this foreword, it probably means that you’ve purchased a copy of Adobe Photoshop , and for that I and the rest of the Photoshop team at Adobe thank you. If you own a previous edition of the Photoshop Bible, you probably know what to expect. If not, then get ready for an interesting trip. | Chapter 11 Full-Court Filtering 539 Although Liquify certainly gives you plenty of ways to reconstruct distortions predicting the outcome of your drags with the reconstruct tool can be difficult. So if you don t get the results you want after your first few tries you may find it just as easy to revert the whole image and start from scratch. Wrapping an Image around a 3D Shape I ve long maintained that three-dimensional drawing programs would catch on better if they were sold as plug-in utilities for Photoshop. Imagine being able to import DXF objects add a line or two of text move the objects around in 3D space apply surface textures and then render the piece directly to independent Photoshop layers. After that you could change the stacking order of the layers edit the pixels right there on the spot or maybe even double-click a layer to edit it in 3D space. Virtually every digital artist working in 3D visits Photoshop somewhere during the process so why not do the whole process in Photoshop and save everyone a few steps Experienced artists would love it and novices would take to 3D in droves. Frankly my little fantasy isn t likely to take form any time soon. Photoshop would have to modify its plug-in specifications and some brave programming team would have to spend a lot of time and money producing an aggressive suite of plug-ins. Even so Adobe seems to share my dream. Filter Render 3D Transform lets you wrap an image around a three-dimensional shape. Although the drawing tools are rudimentary the spatial controls are barely adequate and the filter lacks any kind of lighting controls 3D Transform is a first tentative step in the right direction. Figure 11-43 shows exactly what 3D Transform can do. In each case I started with the brick image shown in the upper-left corner of the figure. Then I wrapped the image around the three basic kinds of primitives permitted by the 3D Transform filter a cube a sphere and a cylinder. 3D Transform lets you add points to the side
