DeepPaint can be thought of as bringing the functions of Fractal Design's Painter inside Photoshop. It is in fact a separate app, provided with a plugin which lets you transmit images with PS. It is an overall impressive app, with an impressive number of different brushes provided, on top of the infinite number of customized ones you can make, including image hoses. On top of the linking with PS (including the support for PS color palettes), it has some advantages over Painter, such as the control over the third dimension of the paint, and the very interesting and innovative possibility of painting only as bump or shine, which provides for a lot of interesting effects. It even supports layers and clonings, and can accept a range of PS-compatible plugins, thus making it a full-featured app. The only features missing seem to be the fact that its layers are not the same as PS (so a multi-layered DP file will be imported as flat in PS), that it requires a lot of memory, and that the interface can be a little confusing at times - for example, menus which cannot be developed are not grayed out.

Still, it seems a bit buggy, and Right Hemisphere´s support has been reported by some users as very slow to answer... 

Deep Exploration provides easy navigation tools that let you search and view your 2D graphics and 3D models. It gives artists everywhere a production edge, including the ability to quickly translate 2D and 3D file formats with animation.

The program works very much like Windows Explorer as far as its easy-to-understand layout, but it goes much further than that.  It quickly creates high quality renderings of 3D objects and scenes for use in most of the major graphic applications. It is also a powerful web publication tool ideal for creating interactive 3D content for web-based presentations. You can do searches both on your own drive, and on a network system, and it can really improve communications by instantly publishing assets to web pages and office documents for use in collaboration, training, sales presentations and marketing.

The program allows you to search for file extensions such as .gif, .jpeg, and .bmp in 2D and an amazing array of 3D extension support such as AutoCAD drawing and DXF files, 3D Metafile, DirectX Model, and Cinema 4D, Playstation TIM and Shockwave 3D just to name a few. I was wishing that the list of extensions were in some kind of alpha order, but I guess you can’t have everything.  You can set it up for full screen mode, allowing you to see larger images, or just use the zoom to get closer.  It supports Softbody, Bones and Skin Animation, 3ds max import/export, Maya import/export, LightWave import, X import/export  and Windows XP theme support.

There are so many enhancements to this new version, it’s impossible to list here, but it sports a Web Publishing Wizard, plus you can set up an automatic multi-page creation for 2D images and 3D models using HTML templates, add descriptions, and best of all create a master index page with thumbnails.  If organization of your digital images has been a challenge for you, here is the tool to help.  And if you’re a 3D guru, this program will help you sleep nights.