The companies Adobe and Google have released a plug-in for graphical editor Photoshop CS3 Extended.

17th June 2007

With the plug-in, as it is reported, Photoshop CS3 Extended users will be able directly through the program search and download 3D models from the database of the service Google 3D Warehouse. The service Google 3D Warehouse allows you to download for free 3D-models of various objects, devices, and so forth. Those who wish may add to the site Google 3D Warehouse their own models. A new plug-in, for Photoshop CS3 Extended, can be installed on the computers, running under OS Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X. After installation of addition, in the menu of graphic editor an item Search Google for 3D Model will appear. Through this item, users can search for 3D models by keywords, and also preview them and then download. The developers do not recommend downloading models larger than 5 MB. Otherwise, the process of converting them into a format which is understandable to the editor Photoshop CS3 Extended, will proceed very slowly. Besides, there are a number of other problems. In particular, the plug-in can work incorrectly with some models displaying textures in truncated condition. In addition, there may also be problems with downloading models that contain Cyrillic symbols. Finally, on computers with Windows users in the second call of plug-in will not be able by pressing \ â€œbackâ€ button return to the previous search results page.