Editing Texture Images
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I hear it's possible to export images from a .skp file, edit them in Photoshop, and import them right back into Sketchup. I can't find out how. Help!
I use SU 7 on Mac OS X.
Thank you.
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Here is a quick video that shows the process.
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1 make sure that you have an image editor chosen
2. apply an image. If you use a color like I did, you have to turn it into a texture (jpg) like I show.
3. Then choose to edit it
4. Edit in your editor.
5. Save
6. Its updated in SU.Hope that helps,
Chris
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Thanks Chris, but you're using a PC. The pull-down menus are not the same on Mac. Control-Clicking the textured surface gives a pull-down menu, but it doesn't have "make unique texture" and it doesn't have "edit texture image".
Does anybody know where this stuff is on the Mac version?
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Hi Collin,
It should appear in the context menu in the Mac also.
Are you sure you are not trying to do this on a curve surface or group/component? In these cases the Texture submenu does not even appear - only on single faces.
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The process is identical to what Chris described on the Mac. The context dropdown does contain the edit texture choice.
Of course, there is another way to accomplish this.
On the Mac, in the material browser, there is a button you can push that opens your image editor.
Double click the texture you want to edit, which opens the edit portion of the browser window and the button is right to the right of the texture name dialogue box.
As Chris said, it must be a texture and not a color.
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Yes, you guys are right, my bad. It was a group of painted surfaces, not a texture. That's why I was getting the different drop-down menu.
Thank you for the help.
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Doesn't work for me. After I've edited my texture in photoshop and save it SketchUp does not find the new version but uses the old one. It doesn't matter where I try to save it or whether I just use the default place Sketchup comes up with which seems to be some temporary folder I cannot find on my hard drive.
MacBook Pro. SketchUp Pro 7. OSX 10.5.4
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RHD,
I'm not familiar with the Mac UI but on PC, in the Preferences dialog (which you can activate from the Sketchup menu on the Mac AFAIK), the first tab is "Applications" where I need to identify the image editor I want to use for this "interactive, on-the-fly" image editing. Have you set that in your SU?
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