Adobe Dimension
Create photorealistic images for brand builds, product snapshots, and packaging designs.
Create product sketches, brand visualizations, packaging designs, and more with easy 3D tools. With Adobe Dimension, graphic designers can create, adjust, and process photorealistic images, all from the same application. And it's only available in Creative Cloud.
Creative Cloud is a platform for creativity that connects users, content, applications, services, hardware, learning content, and the community. It gives business customers the creative tools and services they need to collaborate and create their best work, while making managing software fast, easy and flexible.
Principal functions
- New lighting system: Create your own custom directional lighting setup to get the exact look you want to give your scenes.
- Multiple layers of graphics: Add various images and stickers to the models. Place various logos and graphics on your 3D models as layers, each with unique material settings and properties.
- Support for more 3D file formats: Work with files created in SketchUp and other 3D modeling applications with support for Sketchup SKP, Autodesk FBX, STL, and OBJ formats.
- Export for augmented reality with Aero: Export your Dimension assets for viewing in Aero, Adobe's new augmented reality authoring tool.
- Publishing scenes in 3D: Publish a Dimension scene to a 3D web viewer and generate a unique URL to share with colleagues, clients, and friends.
- Canvas size printing controls and process: Easily configure your canvas size based on physical units and print resolution settings using familiar 2D pan, resize and zoom controls.
System Requirements
Windows
- Intel Core i5 (2011 or later), Intel Xeon (2011 or later), AMD A8 or A10, or AMD Ryzen (Intel Core i7 3.0 GHz or higher recommended)
- Windows 10 Anniversary Update (64-bit) version 1607 or later
- 8GB RAM (16GB or more recommended)
- 1GB of dedicated VRAM (4GB recommended)
- 2.5 GB of available hard disk space
- Geforce GTX 770, Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 or 6200, or equivalent graphics card (Geforce GTX-970 or equivalent recommended)
- OpenGL 3.2 compatible system
- 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 800 resolution (1080p recommended with hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card)
- Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, subscription validation and access to the necessary online services *
macOS
- Intel Core i5 processor (Intel Core i7 recommended)
- macOS 10.12 or later
- 8GB RAM (16GB recommended)
- 2.5 GB of available hard disk space
- 512MB of dedicated VRAM (1GB recommended)
- Intel Iris Graphics 540 or GeForce GT 750M graphics card (Radeon Pro 450 or Intel HD Graphics 530 recommended)
- OpenGL 3.2 compatible system
- 1024 x 640 resolution (1080p recommended with hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card)
- Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, subscription validation and access to the necessary online services *
Frequent questions
What is Dimension?
Adobe Dimension is the next step in 3D graphic design software. This application provides designers with the ability to quickly compose 2D and 3D elements, and customize models, materials, and lighting. With advanced 2D and 3D compositing tools, designers can combine custom graphics with 3D models to configure entire scenes and create final rendered images. As part of Adobe Creative Cloud, you have access to regular feature updates and libraries, Stock, and more. Everything from the application itself.
What types of projects can I use Dimension for?
Graphic designers use the application for the following uses:
- Advertising or product shots
- Product design
- Scene visualizations and concept mockups
- Abstract art
- Package design
- Logo or branding design
What other Adobe products and services does Dimension integrate with?
Dimension works with:
- Adobe Stock
- Photoshop
- Creative Cloud Libraries
You can find, extract and authorize 3D assets and 2D background images from Adobe Stock from within the Dimension application itself. All 3D assets in Adobe Stock are optimized for use with the application. You can also include your own assets saved in Creative Cloud Libraries or on your desktop into Dimension.