Add dazzle and depth to flat artwork and text with Adobe Dimensions software. Whether you're a graphic designer, or simply use graphics software in your everyday work, you'll find Adobe Dimensions the perfect, easy-yet-powerful way to add 3D graphics to your artwork.

Adobe Dimensions lets you turn any object into 3D production-quality artwork the first 3D program to offer both raster and crisp, resolution-independent PostScript output. Adobe Dimensions is easy to learn because it uses the same tools, shortcuts, and terms as your other favorite Adobe programs.

Create 3D artwork using the tools you already know

Even if you are new to Adobe Dimensions as a Windows or Macintosh user, you'll find features you know well from using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. To expedite Adobe Dimensions proficiency, the software uses a familiar interface, with terminology, tools, keyboard commands, and dialog boxes modeled after Adobe applications.

• Use your favorite Pen and Text tools to create basic 2D shapes or paths and text. You can also import 2D artwork from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, or other design programs.
• Convert your 2D elements to 3D by revolving and extruding or by adding beveled edges; objects remain editable even after they're converted to 3D.
• Draw basic 3D shapes (primitives), including cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders directly in Adobe Dimensions.

Design sophisticated 3D objects with ease

Take advantage of the breadth of creative tools Adobe Dimensions puts at your fingertips for creating stunning 3D effects. Adobe Dimensions wields many new features for faster, more versatile 3D object modeling and rendering. One of the most important of these advances, unique to Adobe Dimensions, is the ability to wrap raster images, as well as 2D vector artwork, on any 3D surface. Just drag and drop artwork from Adobe Illustrator (or other drawing program) or Adobe Photoshop (or other image editing program). Adobe Dimensions offers more flexibility than raster-format-only 3D programs and a significantly shorter learning curve.

• Map 2D raster or vector artwork onto 3D objects for amazing textures and special effects. The software then automatically renders the 3D image.
• Interpenetration of objects allows you to combine simple shapes to form complex objects.
• Apply process and custom colors to objects. Import or export custom colors to or from Adobe Illustrator.
• Customize shading with ambient, highlight, or shininess controls, and specify shade colors.
• Position lights freely, at an angle, or from behind. Apply unlimited light sources and individual intensities.
• View objects from multiple positions, including front, back, left, right, bottom, top, and isometric, or set custom angles.
• Set custom camera angles for viewing and output.

Powerful editing controls streamline otherwise tedious tasks

The extensive new and existing editing features included in Adobe Dimensions provide greater control when defining attributes and arranging 3D objects. The ability to edit in a preview mode speeds up the design process. The new Object Browser simplifies object management by providing a single repository for object attributes and a place to name, show, hide, lock, and unlock objects.

• Edit work interactively in different preview modes, whether working in the 2D or 3D window. You can apply any changes or modifications in any mode and preview final results.
• Hide objects with the Object Browser so you can work on an isolated area and enjoy faster screen redraw.
• Group and ungroup objects or move them to another group with the Object Browser.
• Use the new alignment commands to simplify and speed aligning two or more objects in 3D space.
• Return as often as you like to your base art to alter shapes, change colors, and edit text or bevels.
• Get even greater object alignment control with the three new rotation tools that constrain object rotation to the x, y, or z axis.
• Position objects easily with alignment commands.
• Easily create and edit masks in your artwork with two new commands, Make Mask and Release Mask.

A new level of integration

Never before has integration between Adobe products been so tight, expediting and facilitating the production process. Increase your value as a creative professional with cross-platform expertise in Adobe Dimensions ; identical Macintosh and Windows versions make it easy to know how to use both.

• Easily drag and drop elements to and from Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dimensions, and Adobe PageMill.
• Use the tools, menus, and keyboard shortcuts you already know from other Adobe graphics applications.
• Be proficient across platforms with feature and interface parity between Macintosh and Windows versions.
• Import images and artwork in Adobe Illustrator, EPS, TIFF, PSD, and PICT formats.
• Export in 2D formats: Adobe Illustrator, EPS, TIFF, PSD, BMP, and PICT; or in the 3D format 3DMF.

Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0 System Requirements: Intel i486 or faster processor • Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 • 16 MB of RAM • 20 MB of free hard-disk space • CD-ROM drive (3.5" disks sold separately)
Recommended: Pentium or faster processor • 32 MB or more of RAM • High-resolution (24-bit or greater Super VGA) video display card

Power Macintosh Minimum System Requirements: PowerPC processor • Apple System Software version 7.5 or later • 12 MB of RAM available to Adobe Dimensions (24 MB of system RAM) • CD-ROM drive (3.5" disks sold separately) • 20 MB of free hard-disk space
Recommended: High-resolution, 24-bit screen display • 16 MB or more of RAM available to Adobe • Dimensions (32 MB or more of system RAM)