Downloading images into SU
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Can I create an image in another program like Photoshop and then import that into SU? I would like to create a logo elsewhere and then stick it on my SU model...
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Yes, just go to Import and choose the correct image format. You may have trouble with the area surrounding it unless it's a rectangular logo...colour matching, I mean. Possibly the best way is to make it a transparent png file and hover it a minute amount just above the surface. Alternately, you can make it a jpg but paint the surrounding area the colour of your model at that point. In order to avoid a rectangular colour mismatch at the borders of the jpg, make another small jpg that is just the exact same surrounding colour and use that to paint onto the remainder of that natural area in the model...instead of using a simple SU colour.
Another alternative (if it is a simple graphic) is to import it, trace around it, get the face(s) to fill-in, then push/pull it into a 3D logo. You can then shove it into the surface of the object like a cookie cutter and intersect with model to "print" the logo in geometry on the side of your model. Colour it in the usual way, then hide the edges when you are done.
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