

To get back to the default camera angle, open the Properties panel (Window>Properties). Those are right up at the top of the screen in the top tool bar. With "Current View" selected, you can begin to move the scene around with the Orbit, Roll, and Pan tools. The top item in the 3D panel is "Current View" and that's basically your movie camera. Make note of that panel for the next step. In addition to the "Layers" panel, you might notice that there's a "3D" panel with your layer names listed in reverse order. After Cmnd+E is pressed, the computer will arrange the layers similarly to the way it arranged mine to the right. This makes sure that all of the layers remain oriented to the same 3D space. This puts all of the 3D objects into one 3D Layer. Basically, all of the layers need to be selected and then you have to hit Cmnd+E. This is important enough that I thought it should be its own step. You can explore the 3D Photoshop stuff without them, but if I were you, I'd hunt down a pair just so that you can start making your own 3D art for cheap right away. I'm just putting that out there before we get too deep.Īlso, you're going to need red and blue 3D glasses to do the anaglyph part of this tutorial. Most new machines can handle all of that, but my old Mac was chuggin'. It should be noted that working with a 300ppi on an old-ass Macbook for three-dee manipulation is not a good idea. I chose 300ppi and made sure to select the "Write Layers " radial button. For the Aloha Screwdriver project, the end result was a printed record sleeve, so it needed to be high resolution. So, if you work in Illustrator like I do, just make sure to have the document in RGB mode and choose Export from the File Menu. I work in a lot of layers (see above) and when I'm ready to make this thing in 3D, Adobe is kind enough to make those layers available to me in Photoshop as well. It's really flexible and it allows all of the parts are easily scaled. I make most of my digital art in Adobe Illustrator.
