They also quietly dropped support for Dimension, instead releasing their Substance suite of 3D texturing and rendering tools. In 2021 Adobe announced that 3D would be dropped from Photoshop entirely in future versions.

Adobe continued to enhance its 3D modeling environment in Photoshop, and in 2017 introduced Dimension, its 3D rendering environment that allowed models from Photoshop and elsewhere to be imported, textured, positioned, lit and rendered quickly and easily. Then, in 2010, they brought 3D tools to Photoshop CS5 (but only, at first, to the higher-priced Extended Edition). The functionality improved marginally over subsequent releases. In 2003 Adobe dropped Dimensions and instead built a cut-down version of its 3D tools into Illustrator CS, providing basic modeling techniques. The artwork could then be imported into Photoshop at any size and textured as required-if you had the requisite skills. Its unique approach was to create vector artwork in just a fraction of the time that other 3D applications could produce finished renders. Its first foray into the medium was Adobe Dimensions (not to be confused with Adobe Dimension, singular) in 1996, a standalone app which provided basic extrude and revolve capabilities.

Adobe has a checkered history of implementing 3D modeling.

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