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    PS vs Blender paint

    Ido Reshef(ireshef)
    posted to: Editing Textures Externally

    Pros and cons ?

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    • Kent Trammell replied

      PS is a much more fully-featured painting experience. Though it can be confusing to paint your texture in 2D when you ultimately want to view it on a 3D model.

      Blender paint can paint in 2D but a huge benefit is being able to paint on your 3D model directly.

      There's a pretty amazing Blender addon called BPainter that facilitates many of PS's painting features. It's the best of both worlds.

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      violaine replied

      I'm not sure why it was never mentioned that Photoshop has had the ability to paint directly on imported 3D models since 2009 or 2008? And can even incorporate layers!

    • Kent Trammell replied

      I think I tried it around 2009 (when I was in college). It was very rudimentary back them as far as I remember. Especially compared to Cinema4D's 3d painting feature called "bodypaint" which was one of the first to do it really well (pre substance painter).

      I can only imagine Photoshop's 3D painting has improved but I've not tried it since 2009. Nor have I known any colleagues (pro or amateur) paint textures that way, unless using the Quixel suite.

      Thanks for the tip/reminder!