Now you can use .PSD files from PhotoShop without converting them to PICT or TIFF files. Several new workflow enhancements come along with the new texture format support: Live Updates and Layer Linking.
With Live Updates from PSD textures, Strata 3D no longer stores the texture within the Strata 3D file, but links to the file on your hard drive. Whenever you make a change to the texture, and save the file, Strata 3D can track the changes you've made, and update the texture automatically. Once you've loaded a texture into a model, you can make as many changes to it as you like, and watch the results in 3D!

With Layer Linking, you can edit several channels in one PhotoShop file. The color channel in one layer, bump in another specular in another, etc. When you load the file into a Strata 3D texture, it automatically distributes the first 12 layers of the file into the twelve texture channels in Strata 3D. You can choose to rearrange them in Strata 3D, or remove them from some channels. Keep all of your texture channels in one file for easy reference and quick editing.