3D Effects and Surface Manipulation Software

AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0 offers many customizable options for adding jigsaw puzzle effects to your photos and images.

AV Bros. Page Curl 2.0 offers many customizable options for adding page curl and fold effects to your photos and images.

[Plug-in] Create page curl effects with a number of customizable options. Shareware.

[Plug-in] Create jigsaw puzzle effects with various options including bevel, opacity, blur, custom shapes, and more. Puzzles can be saved with each cell on a separate Photoshop layer.

[Plug-in] This Photoshop-compatible plug-in combines textures with bevels and mirror-like reflections. $30 US.

[Plug-in] Turn vector clipart or text into ornamental 3D models.

[Plug-in] Three-D shadowing plug-in features natural soft edges, blurring, drop and cast shadows, moveable plane, multiple shadowing with up to four moveable lights, perspective shadows, and more. Demo available.

[Plug-in] Offers true 3D surface wrapping, viewpoint control, image and surface manipulation, and shading for scene building and compositing images, 3-D visualization and package design. Demo available.

[Plug-in] Expands the functionality of Andromeda Three-D Filter to include texture wrapping and combining images from Photoshop using textures and new features including stressed, riveted, aged, mesh, and alien sculpted surfaces. Demo available.

[Standalone] "Aquatint assists you in creating images that fit in with Apple's Aqua user interface appearance." Shareware - $15 for non-commercial use.

[Plug-in] HyperTyle is a plugin for generating texture, surface, paint, erosion, transparency, edge, frame, shadow and many other effects. Works with a wide range of applications, including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint, Fireworks, Painter, PhotoImpact and Picture Publisher. It works on images in Grayscale, RGB, Multichannel, Grayscale 16bit and RGB 48bit mode.

[Plug-in] Artistic Effects includes Aqua, Chrome, Drop, Ice, Metal and Snow. 3D Maker allows creation of pseudo 3D graphical elements out of 2D drawings.

[Plug-in] "Create scanlines of any width. Change their contrast. Add static and ghosting for that 'bad rabbit ears' look." $7.50 US.

[Plug-in] Two Photoshop compatible plug-ins: Curl and Twist. The plug-ins provides you with an interactive environment to make real three-dimensional page wrapping effects. Curl makes a turning page effect to your images while Twist gives a wrenching page effect. Shareware $19.95 US for the pair.