hello and welcome to this video tutorial today we're going to look at the issue of adobe removing
the 3D tools from adobe Photoshop and indeed the fact that adobe continually will remove things
from versions of Photoshop and what you can do about it now adobe has just let us know that
the 3D tools are being removed from the most recent versions of Photoshop so going forward
you will not have access to the 3D tools in Photoshop now if you're a heavy user of
3D there are some other alternatives which you can look at on Adobe.com but what I'm doing is
talking to people who occasionally would like to use the 3D tools in Photoshop for example
to follow a YouTube video that you've seen an interesting 3D effect on well you're not
going to be able to access that in the most recent versions of Photoshop and so what I suggest you do
is you keep an older version or two of Photoshop now I've been saying this for a few years now
in fact as old as Photoshop CS 5.5 because back in the days of 5.5 there were a couple of really
cool features in Photoshop one of them was the Print Package tool and this allowed you to print
the same image multiple times on a sheet of paper just through an interface built into Photoshop you
could also use different photos it was just an awesome tool I have subsequently had to create a
couple of YouTube videos that will tell you how to create that same effect not nearly as functionally
as the original Photoshop tool but I've still got that tool because i still have Photoshop CS 5.5
there was another feature in 5.5 and that was the pixel bender tool
again that has not been able to be run with later versions of Photoshop and i have access to that
because I've got 5.5 still installed on my machine so anytime I want to create an interesting Pixel
Bender effect I can do so now also in previous versions there was a paper texture tool available
inside Photoshop not available anymore I think you can buy it but it used to be free
I've still got it now the reason why I've still got all these things is that I've been really
careful in terms of keeping older versions of Photoshop on my computers so I have an old Windows
7 machine which has the older versions of CS 5.5 for those days when i want to be able to access
those tools the other thing that's going in this most recent version of Photoshop will be
the lighting effects they're disappearing along with the 3D effects so if that's you
this is what I suggest that you do is that you go to adobe creative cloud and you have a look
and see what else is available in terms of older versions of Photoshop because you are allowed
as a creative cloud member to download and install multiple versions of Photoshop
now if in future i want to use lighting effects or 3D I will still have older versions of Photoshop
on my computer that I'll be able to use there's also a very good reason for not uninstalling older
versions of Photoshop when you install a brand new one and that is simply a matter of bugs if there's
something in the newer version of Photoshop that is causing it not to run or to run not as well as
you would like and some of the features that you need access to well if you've still got an older
version of this new app on your computer then you can start it up and at least get your work done
so just be aware of that when you're upgrading to a newer version of Photoshop or Illustrator you're
still entitled to keep those older versions on your computer and it may be a smart thing
to do now all of that said there are some features that have just been removed and are no longer
functional and that includes the Color Themes panel from Adobe Illustrator that has gone because
it was using a web interface it's gone from all versions so even if you've got an older version
that's not going to save you in terms of that feature being removed but in terms of a lot of
other features having an older version of the application just might save you I hope
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until next time my name's Helen Bradley thank you so much for joining me here on my YouTube channel