Dave Girard with a nifty post on using Photoshop to generate previews of 3D files that you might have lying around in some library. Dave notes: “Yesterday, I picked up a pack of Dosch models to make things a little easier for this visualization job. The problem was that they didn’t come with a PDF or rendered previews, so I had to use Adobe Bridge to wait for them to render previews, which was slow since they were the kind of models with 300,000 polygons for a coat hanger. Anyway, I knew that Photoshop CS3 and above can open 3D models (I made a texturing workflow for PS) so I figured it would be able to make previews as well.”
Make preview of 3D files with Photoshop from Dave Girard on Vimeo.