PaintBridge PS

MadCanvas in Materials and Shading

      Blender ↔ Photoshop    

Capture your scene.
Paint in Photoshop.
Project it back.

Name: PaintBridge PS
Brand: MadCanvas
Price: 9.59 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

PaintBridge PS is a live link between Blender and Photoshop.
designed for artists who want Photoshop's brush engine inside their 3D workflow.

Full documentation →

    How It Works  

Texture Paint in Photoshop.

Painting in Photoshop, result appears on the model in Blender

    Features  

Everything in one panel.

Auto-Capture

Captures automatically or manually to PSD layers in Photoshop.

Automatic Paint Projection

Sends paint back to Blender. ROI-based and optimized, no full-texture transfers.

Full Camera Control from PS

Orbit, pan, zoom and snap to axis directly from Photoshop via the UXP gizmo.

Texture Slot Browser

Browse all material texture slots, set paint target and projection mask.

Capture History

Snapshots viewport state per capture, up to 30 entries.

Color Management

Automatic sRGB ↔ Linear conversion on both capture and projection.

Pass Preview

Toggle any pass directly in the Blender viewport before capturing.

Direct WebSocket Transfer

Memory-to-memory, no temp files. Configurable from 512px up to 8K.

UDIM Support

Paint across UV tiles, strokes spanning tile borders project correctly.

Mirror Projection

Projects symmetrically across X, Y or Z through the object's local origin.

    2D UV Edit  

Edit the flat texture directly.

You can also edit a texture the classic way, on its flat UV layout. PaintBridge makes that more convenient: open from the panel, Ctrl + S in Photoshop, Blender picks it up automatically.

Painting on the flat texture in Photoshop, the model in Blender updates after saving

    Multi-Pass Capture  

Ten passes. One click.

All sent to Photoshop as separate layers.

Capture All in Photoshop, every pass arrives as its own layer

Base ColorFlat material colors

Object MaskAutomated layer mask

NormalsSurface direction

DepthDistance from camera

Ambient OcclusionContact shadows

ShadingLight & shadow

Color IDMaterial ID map for masking

Vertex ColorAttribute, vertex paint

ViewportYour current viewport

WireframeMesh wireframe

Vs. Blender Quick Edit

Same idea. More control.

PaintBridge replaces file handoff and temp files with a direct WebSocket connection and ROI-based transfer. It still builds on the same projection operators.

	Quick Edit	PaintBridge PS
Connection	Temp files on disk	✓WebSocket, memory-to-memory
Transfer	Full image every time	✓ROI-based, changed pixels only
Passes	Viewport only	✓10 passes incl. depth, normals, AO
Bit depth	8-bit only	✓8-bit up to 32-bit float
Camera control	Switch to Blender	✓Orbit, pan, zoom from PS gizmo
Capture history	None	✓Capture settings are recoverable

Limitations

No real-time viewport, best used with Blender on a second monitor.
Local only. PS and Blender must run on the same machine.
UXP app strongly recommended; JSX fallback available for CS6+ with reduced features.
Capture, paint, project workflow, not direct brush strokes on the model.
Does not work with Blender 5.1.0 (due to issue #156370)