Bangalore: Photoshop – the most widely used image manipulation software – now makes 3D printing more convenient. Adobe, in its latest Photoshop Creative Cloud update has integrated 3D printing capabilities; meaning users can now use all the exhaustive editing features the application offers, to enhance their designs and 3D print them at ease.

The Creative Cloud update will bring immediate access of new features to the subscribers. Even though, the tool can be used to create 3D designs from scratch, the company’s product manager Andy Luata expects people will mainly use it as a finishing tool to refine their designs and output them to the printers. The update has highly useful features such as automatic scaffolding and trouble-spot detections that prevent models from collapsing while printing, thus saving users from a lot of headache. A comprehensive software such as Photoshop being incorporated with 3D printing brings a lot to the table, models need no longer be limited only to the monochromatic printing that many of the current 3D design applications support, and users will be able to publish their models directly to services like Shapeways and Sketchfab, or print them with Makerbot and 3D Systems Cube printers.

With a slew of companies introducing reasonably priced 3D printers aimed at consumers at the recently concluded CES 2014; Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 coming with native 3D printing support;  and now with Adobe instantly providing the same support to millions of Photoshop CC subscribers, 3D printing has a very realistic chance of seeing mainstream adoption this year.

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