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Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta)

Introducing Substance 3D Viewer (beta), a desktop app that lets you open, view, and design with 3D objects. It works with the Photoshop(beta) app, enabling you to seamlessly add 3D models to your 2D Photoshop designs as editable Smart Objects, unlocking new creative possibilities for digital artists.

What is Substance 3D Viewer (beta)?

Substance 3D Viewer (beta) is available for free as a public beta desktop app that unlocks 3D capabilities for Adobe Creative Cloud users. Created for graphic designers, it simplifies 3D workflows by allowing you to open, view, and work with 3D models by adjusting the camera angle, changing the lighting, and even editing the materials.

To use it with the Photoshop (beta) app, simply drag-and-drop a 3D model into your Photoshop canvas to open and view it as a new Smart Object in your Photoshop design. From there, you can iterate on the position, size, and light of your 3D model in the Substance 3D Viewer (beta) app and send the updates back to your Photoshop (beta) app design.

The Substance 3D Viewer (beta) unlocks 3D capabilities in familiar workflows to help Creative Cloud users expand their creative toolkit. 

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Integrate 3D with Photoshop

Drag and drop 3D models into Photoshop (Beta) as Smart Objects.

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View and explore 3D models

Open and view 3D content in a user-friendly way.  Integration with Photoshop (Beta) means you can open and view 3D content like CAD files or widely used formats, including USD, OBJ, FBX, and STL.

Generate variations with a reference image in Ps (beta) on desktop

Create images from 3D models

Export or take snapshots of 3D models for use in other applications.

Generate variations with a reference image in Ps (beta) on desktop

Generate images using 3D

Achieve better results with 3D images and text prompts.

Note:

The Substance 3D Viewer (beta) app is available in English, French, German, and Japanese. The application can still be downloaded by all locales via CCD and will default to English for non-localized regions.

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