Photoshop CS5 - 3D feature!

While Photoshop CS5 has included a number of extraordinary features, the 3D features have taken another giant leap with a fantastic feature called Repoussé. Which allows you to create 3D text. Working in 3D in any application is processor intensive. It will use up RAM extremely quick. Older machines would have crashed all the time so as machines have become increasingly powerful, software continues to as well.

3D is everywhere and to be able to create outwardly complex 3D art all in Photoshop is a massive bonus for the Photoshop designer. Repoussé in Photoshop will have you creating 3D text or shapes in minutes complete with reflections and lighting, textures, etc. Which will allow you combine all the other features Photoshop has to offer.

So What is Repoussé?

I can only imagine the number of different ways this is going to mispronounced. It has a been a running joke here in the office how to say "gaussian blur" and we can see the same thing happening with Repoussé. It is actually pronounced reh-poo-zay and comes from a French term meaning ‘formed in relief.’ Repoussé is the practice of hammering a sheet of metal from behind to form a relief sculpture on the other side. Adobe have said when they started building this feature they were developing a tool that would allow you to attach internal constraint objects to a 3D surface and then push and pull those constraints to form a relief on the textured surface, thus Repoussé.

While CS4 had some fairly cool 3D tools, CS5 has made that giant leap forward and among many other things we can now create and modify 3D text entirely inside Photoshop.

3D in Photoshop is still a new concept and for many designers it’s a brand new concept so experiment, be creative, and be patient. 3D can be time-consuming but the rewards speak for themselves. Here are a few samples of what can be achieved with using Repoussé in CS5. Hopefully this will give you a good idea of being able to do so much with so little.