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      mike mead
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      Hello all,

      Thanks for a very useful forum and thanks to all who are sharing their knowledge here!
      have been using the free version of SU for about a month and am getting the hang of basic modeling.
      i am modeling an addition to a church and would like to show it on an image from google earth.
      i open google earth and zoom to the site, then in SU, under tools - google earth- i select "get current view"
      the image imported is a lower resolution and in greyscale, not color like what i am looking at in earth.
      i have not been able to find any settings to adjust the quality of the import from google earth.
      thanks in advance for any clues!

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        ehaflett
        last edited by

        Welcome to the forum, Mike.

        Getting the image from GE is always going to be B&W, it's still useful for geolocating your model and getting terrain. Here's a bookmark I've got for adding color to your GE terrains in SU, hope it helps...

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        Adding color to your Earth snapshots

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          mike mead
          last edited by

          thanks eric, looks like what i need - i will give it a try

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