3D in Photoshop

Foreword

Gavin Miller

Traditional analog photography combined the creative use of cameras with post processing in the darkroom. Photographers adjusted scene composition and lighting, and controlled exposure, focal length and depth of field to capture the moment on film. In the darkroom, chemical manipulation for transfer curves was combined with optical manipulations such as dodge and burn, convolutions using moving film (such as a Rostrum Camera) and compositing using optical masks.

Photoshop, in its early days, was largely inspired by the desire to move image manipulations to the digital realm in which they were more repeatable, convenient and expressive, allowing not dozens but hundreds of layers, and image transformations and effects not ...