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Questions tagged [image]

Questions pertaining to 2D images in blender. Use this tag for image textures, baking images, and any other question relating to images.

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How to refresh loaded textures

I am working on a scene, and using CrazyBump to export Displacement and Normal maps; I want to tweak the textures, but currently I need to restart Blender before they update. Is it possible to refresh them, without restarting Blender?
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Meaning of UV in "UV/Image Editor"

In Blender they speak about the UV/Image Editor. I cannot find the meaning of the letters "UV". What is UV standing for ?
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Extracting parallax data from only two photos to help reconstruct a 3D scene

In terms of integrating Blender renders with existing photographs, is there a way to create a set of Blender mesh points using the parallax info between just a pair of stereo photographs? I've gotten good at regular camera tracking with video, and…
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Setting the DPI value in rendered images

I'm in trouble with finding a way to set DPI value of files within Blender. I have set up an automated workflow to generate image files for printing, but the volume is too high to open and change the DPI value of each image separately. (PNG for…
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Is it possible to reset the render view zoom level to 1:1?

After I have rendered an image I often want to zoom in and out to get a good look at it and check for problems etc. However, I don't know how to reset the zoom level back to 1:1 (1 image pixel = 1 display pixel). I know I can just save the render…
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Adding an image to a plane as a reference

I am modelling a mountain on the Moon using a reference photo from above. I have added a simple plane in top ortho view, and would really like to just plop that photo onto the plane. I started looking into UV mapping, but it doesn't seem to be what…
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Blender resizing my image in half

I have a problem. I'm trying to render an image and the resolution is 500x280. After I render the image and save it, for some reason the image gets resized to 250x140. I'm unsure why it happends.
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How to make fake "3d object" from stack of photos?

I have a stack of PNG photos from my DLP 3D printer, and I want to view them as 3D objects. The material I am creating with Array creates a bunch of planes, but I was unable to provide the Z position of each plane as the number of the frame, Blender…
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How to lock the background image to the camera view in 2.8?

In previous versions of blender you could have the background image be always lined up with the camera, so it was possible to align the 3D view to match with the perspective of a reference image. Example from this link in 2.8 Is there a setting I…
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Batch Generate Previews Not Working

Even for the default cube, when I go to File -> Data Previews -> Batch Generate Previews, it seems that it's doing something. Then I save the file but when I try to append the cube to another project I get no Image preview! Does anyone know what I'm…
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Can you tell an image sequence when it should start playing?

In my animation I gave a short image sequence of an explosion. The image sequence is 25 frames long. My problem is that I don't want the image sequence to play until frame 120 of the blender project (ie the blender project is 400 frames long, at…
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After importing image as plane the image is not shown, it is just a gray plane

After importing image as plane the image is not shown, it is just a gray plane. Thanks if you can help me :)
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Black Borders on Reference Images

I'm getting black borders on all the reference images I add and it's making things difficult to work with. Anyone know how I can get rid of them?
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Using 360 images for scene background

I'd like to be rendering a scene in which the camera is behind a plane of glass looking at a background scene (a PNG image I provide), and there's rain on the plane of glass. This is what my scene looks like currently: As you can see, the rain…
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Can Blender open .DDS files?

I'd like to open some .dds image files in Blender as I've extracted some files from a game and wish to view them... Does anybody know if it's possible (either by default or through an addon) to open .dds files in Blender? And if so, how to use them?
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