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I'm just setting up an image and I have to use units, so I want to see the grid when looking from top. Currently the image blocks the grid. Just want to make the image a little transparent. Must I use shader properties etc?? I'm new to blender sorry

Sadun Kal
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  • I saw some tutorials where it's easily done with reducing Alpha level somewhere but cant find that stuff in the new blender versions – Sadun Kal Mar 12 '20 at 14:37

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If you add material, it's a principled shader. Just turn down the alpha

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And also 'Alpha blend' from the settings of that material:

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And you may need to be in Material Preview or Display Render mode:

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Manu Järvinen
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  • Principled shader works fine thank you. I wanted to do it without going into shader stuff, I think it must be possible to just reduce opacity in the viewport independent from shader? – Sadun Kal Mar 12 '20 at 14:40
  • It would be nice, yes - I don't know if that's possible :/ – Manu Järvinen Mar 12 '20 at 14:42
  • I also noticed that there is display "In Front" option under object properties.. but there used to be an also alpha slider there.. I wonder why they removed it!? – Sadun Kal Mar 12 '20 at 15:15
  • @SadunKal Hello :). The alpha slider is only there if you add images through Add > Image > Background/Reference. Otherwise you'll have to use shaders. – jachym michal Mar 12 '20 at 21:26
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Set the viewport display to "Object" and then tweak the color alpha in the viewport display color property :

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Gorgious
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