B: I just got a cool demo of something you should post on the design alliance site
it's a cool 3D mouse that is especially cool for using the new 3D features in Photoshop. The thing to post would be the idea that, increasingly, stock photography may become less useful to designers than stock 3D objects. There's so much free 3D stuff out there that it's practical start thinking in terms of 3D images rather than still images. For example...
...say you need a shot of a football. You look all over and find a lot of stock photos of footballs, but none of them quite match your design. Instead, you get get a stock 3D model of a football, and position it exactly the way you want it.
2:45 PM
K: Does Getty One, et. al. have those 3D models you're talking about?
B: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
that's just google. There are lots and lots of other stock model places
K: So the mouse lets you drag things around in a "3D" space? Instead of using clicks to switch dimensions?
B: In Photoshop now, you can bring a textured 3D object into a photoshop document. It sits in its own layer and you can rotate and move it in 3D space. This mouse thing that they gave me provides a VERY intuitive way of navigating 3D space and manipulating 3D objects.
2:50 PM
K: Nice. Thanks!
Oh, how much is it?
B: (3dconnexion.com) // 59 bucks
K: Even nicer.
