Powerful 3D modeling, rendering and animation with a design interface for designers. All the features of Design 3D[in] that you've seen so far are now completely within Strata 3D CX 5.5

Strata recently released its 3D[in] Photoshop CS3 plug-ins. The 3D[in] bundle has been critically successful, garnering a 5 Mouse review from MacUser, and cheers from an anxious crowd after demonstrating its capabilities to hundreds at PhotoshopWorld '08.

Industry luminaries and trainers, such as Dave Cross (photoshopusertv.com) and Colin Smith (photoshopcafe.com) have heaped praise on them and produced training material for them.

Models a wide range of objects

Strata 3D CXi is the answer to your design needs. Strata 3D CX the 3D application that is easy to use as Photoshop and the precision of illustrator. Ability to link to Photoshop files, import Illustrator art, and create photo-real images and animations. This powerful design tool can add a new dimension to your work for illustration, design, web-ready graphics, animation and more.

Tremendous power and user friendly. Adobe Users - Familiar Tools and Workflow. More power for modeling, animating - scripting. Strata 3D CX 5.5 an important 3D application release for designers, illustrators and mixed-media artists.

Perhaps the best praise has been from Adobe themselves: "We're happy to see support for 3D workflows in Photoshop CS3 Extended from valued ecosystem partners like Strata," said Kevin Connor, Senior Director of Product Management, Professional Digital Imaging, Adobe. "Strata 3D along with Photoshop CS3 Extended means "Creatives" can take full advantage of the power of the Photoshop image editing toolset and paint engine for editing 3D and motion based content."

Now we're bringing the workflow-bending power of the Design 3D[in] back into the fold with additions to Strata 3D CX, our flagship 3D modeling, texturing and rendering application. Take your Photoshop work to the next level with instant access to 3D from Photoshop CS3 and instant transport of assets, renders and more to Photoshop from Strata 3D CX 5.5.

New! In Version 5.5

Take full advantage of an integrated 3D/2D workflow. All the features of Design 3D[in] that you’ve seen are now completely within Strata 3D CX 5.5. Take your Photoshop work to the next level with instant access to 3D from Photoshop CS3 and instant transport of assets, renders and more to Photoshop.

The following items are included FREE with this product:

1 of Art & Science of Strata 3D CX v5 ($79.95 value!)

Strata 3D CX 5.5 integrates with Photoshop CS3 in a number of key ways.

Match scenes from Photoshop to scenes in Strata 3D CX Use the Vanishing Point filter from Photoshop to define the 3d perspective of a photograph. You can then send that 3D plane, fully texture-mapped, into a new 3D scene in Strata 3D CX 5.5, with the full photograph loaded into the background for quick and simple photo perspective matching. Product designers and Architectural users will appreciate the ease that Strata 3D CX 5.5 accomplishes a very commonplace and time-consuming process. Take the guess-work out of creating photo-realistic 3D scenes that match up simply to your photographic reference. Start thinking about the result first Start your design process in Photoshop, by creating the background, copy, and other elements first. Then, choose from thousands of objects on Google's 3d Warehouse, or match the document to a Strata 3D scene, where you can choose from Strata's included library objects or build entirely new objects from scratch with a fully-featured 3D application. Take models from Google, to Photoshop, to Strata 3D CX 5.5 and move real-time models and fully masked and layered photoshop renders between both applications with ease. Virtually combine the saved intermediate files of both Photoshop and Strata 3D CX into one workflow to reduce your daily file management tasks significantly, and start thinking more about how your 2D and 3D design works together. Adds to your Photoshop workflow AND your 3D workflow The increased workflow links between Photoshop and Strata 3D CX can increase your productivity and expand your creative options whether you come from a 2D Photoshop background, or from a 3D background, whether in Strata 3D or not. Strata integrates well with other 3D applications and formats, can export Flash video animation, imports Adobe standard vector formats, such as PDF and AI, exports Vector SWF and AI renders (with the Strata 3D Vector plug-in), as well as internal links to Photoshop for 3D tasks, such as dynamically linked PSD texture maps, and the ability to distribute individual Photoshop layers to different texture channels. With the addition of layered Photoshop renders in version 5, and the transport of fully masked, layered renders directly from CX 5.5 to Photoshop, Strata 3D CX is the most integral 3D solution for Photoshop users.