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New plug-in brings powerful and easy-to-use 3D toolset to the Photoshop CS4 Extended interface

BOULDER, Colo., March 5 /PRNewswire/ — Today Electric Rain, Inc.(R) announced the release of Swift 3D(R) PS, a new plug-in that adds 3D modeling and animation tools to the Photoshop CS4 Extended authoring environment. The plug-in allows Photoshop users to quickly and easily accomplish simple to advanced 3D tasks without leaving the CS4 Extended interface.

“Swift 3D is already very well known in the Flash community and we’re excited to see it introduced as a plug-in to Photoshop CS4 Extended,” commented John Nack, Principal Product Manager for Photoshop & Bridge at Adobe Systems.

Swift 3D PS incorporates the same intuitive interface and toolset as the full version of Swift 3D, making it a good fit for designers that are new to 3D or want to accomplish simple 3D tasks. It also provides advanced modeling and animation capabilities, including new Boolean operations, for designers who want to delve deeper into 3D or expand the workflow into After Effects CS4.

“Swift 3D PS marks an exciting new direction for our designer-oriented 3D tools,” said Mike Soucie, President of Electric Rain. “By plugging into the world’s most powerful 2D design environment, Swift 3D PS not only simplifies and accelerates common “faux-3D” tasks, but opens the door for some very exciting new design possibilities in Photoshop and After Effects. We expect to see some amazing results.”

Key benefits of Swift 3D PS

• Create, bevel and extrude 3D text from any font in seconds.
• Quickly draw 2D extrusions or lathe objects with a bezier pen tool.
• Import, extrude and bevel existing 2D vector artwork from Adobe Illustrator(R) or Flash(R).
• Simplify 3D scene creation with targeted cameras and in-viewport lighting manipulation.
• Expands Photoshop’s workflow with After Effects CS4 Live 3D view.
• 3D objects remain fully editable, even after filters are applied.

Swift 3D PS for Windows is available from the Electric Rain website at http://www.erain.com for $149.00 USD.

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This article introduces Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP. I will show you how to code less and better by using some OOP concepts and PHP tricks.
Concepts of object oriented programming:

· Abstract data types and information hiding
· Inheritance
· Polymorphism

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What are the differences between the Object Oriented model in PHP5 and PHP4?

Firstly (and the reason the release number jumped) is that assignments copy references in PHP5 (which is regarded as correct OO behaviour) but they duplicate or clone the object in PHP4. This may sound a bit obtuse, but:
* if you duplicate an object and then change one of the copies, you do NOT effect the data refered to by the other name (PHP4 behaviour)
* if you copy by reference (PHP5 behaviour, in effect giving the object a second name) and then change one of the “copies”, you effect both as there one and the same.
In effect, it’s the difference between letting someone share a piece of paper with you and both writing on it (PHP5), and taking a photocopy to give to someone then each writing on your own sheet (PHP4).

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