Looks like I might have to figure it out and write the internet's first tutorial.
Best way to make 3D chessboard for art?
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Blender (or a paid modeling program) is something that can be used if you want it to be 3d and able to be rotated. Photoshop if for a stock image.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8173/7885435078_3f4b92fd38_b.jpg
^Blender.
Illustrator?
Photoshop?
Blender?
Something else [xara?]
I have googled like mad. Not sure that I have found that much. At least not much that I consider to be a quality tutorial - that is a 3D chessboard tutorial that is lifelike as in refections and shadows and patterns rather than some cartoonish, naff load of trash.
That's a huge surprise to me. I mean, lots of people must have wanted to do this.