
I chose an old NYC building, and tapped the Add to Project bar to get going.Ĭontrols on the resulting screen let you resize, spin, and tilt the image. You can search for contributed images, for particular users, or for boards containing groups of images. Working With 3D Imagesįor 3D creation, you can start from scratch using primitives like spheres and boxes, or, better yet, you can grab a prebuilt 3D model from the right-side Remix 3D panel, which offers staff picks, essentials, starter kits, and community objects. You can still draw on images, rotate them, and crop them, however. Like the old Paint, Paint 3D is lacking when it comes to basic photo editing tools like brightness, contrast, and color tuning. It's not quite as automatic and accurate as Adobe's tool, but you can fine tune selection with an eraser or add to it after initial selection. When you start selecting an area of a 2D image, Magic Select becomes an option: It's similar to the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop, which lets you cut out, say, a person from a background. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Corel Painter 2016 Review Last October, Microsoft announced an ancillary app, Capture 3D, which is supposed to let you shoot video of an object to create a 3D image you can use in Paint 3D, but that app is still AWOL. You can get Paint 3D in the Windows Store like any other Universal app, but it only runs in Creators Update or in the Windows Insider early builds of the OS. I've been playing with Paint 3D for more than a week now on a Surface Book ($495.00 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) running Creators Update, and let me tell you, anyone can have fun creating, customizing, decorating, and sharing 3D objects. You might think 3D modeling would be too complex for novices-as most 3D design software has been up to now-but put that worry aside: It's simple enough for anyone to use. Paint 3D adds an extra dimension to casual image creation, while the old Paint also remains available in Windows for those who cling to 2D ways. What better way to do this than to put that power into an app that everyone already knows, Microsoft Paint? Paint has looked largely the same for decades, but with Windows 10 Creators Update there's a new Paint in town. Microsoft wants to put 3D modeling into everyone's hands. Complementary 3D capture mobile app missing in action.

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