Excellent! Thanks for the info!

Let's begin by saying that I am really really tired today and do not have very much patience this afternoon so please forgive the stupid question. Sitting here and searching the forums and tutorials is not a strong point of mine today ... sorry.

The wood choices in the paint window leave a bit to be desired. I found a sample of wood textures and downloaded it. It has 25 different textures that I would (hopefully) like to get added to the wood section of the paint tool to use when I do other projects. Is this possible? If so ... HOW? If the answer is in the forum, please direct me to the proper location.

Thanks!
Chevy

I want to thank the SketchUcation Forums along with the people involved for such an expansive knowledge base. In particular Gaieus and Muriel (whose post I no longer see in the thread) for helping me with the "issue" that I had with my FIRST real project. Thanks to these two, I finished my blue prints and delivered them to the cabinet maker for construction to begin. Although I was about a week behind schedule which in turn put me lower on their completed waiting list, it was worth it in this instance. He was so impressed with the detail and clarity of what was designed utilizing SketchUp that he said that he was going to check out the program himself.

I have been coming to the forums pretty much every day since signing up here, reading the various subject posts and continuing to learn more about the program. I found a few plug-ins that sure would have come in handy during my designing phase that would have cut the "aggravation factor" along with the "time factor" way down. I have now downloaded and installed with the first one being BZRoundEdge(Being a "Newbie" ... I had no clue about them at the time).

My message and/or suggestion to the new users and new members ... read the forums! Use the tutorials! Watch the videos ... pause the video and practice with the new information as you watch it! IF by some chance an answer is not found ... Post your question(s)! Speaking from experience, reading the various post(s) will (more than likely) answer your question(s).

Now a message for Gaieus ... thank you for the "welcome" and a personal THANK YOU for the assistance!

Chevy

Thanks for the tips! I have been "tinkering" with this off and on for most of the afternoon. I appreciate the advice that you have given, it was/is very helpful! With the use of Paint Shop I have started the process of "cleaning up" the wheat image and removing the gray background. My workweek begins tomorrow so I guess that I will pick back up on this sometime Monday or Tuesday. Again ... Thanks for the help!

Chevy

quote="Gaieus"]Okay, so I made the image into a png with transparent background. You will also need to develop this technique.

Another completely different issue is that it is still an image "floating" in front of your cabinet door. Just like a painted pattern over the wood texture.

In order to raise (or recess) it, you will need to

1. turn it into a face with the image applied as a texture on
2. somehow trim the texture so that there are edges around the visible parts.

1 is easy: select the image, right lick > explode...

2 can be done with this tool (a plugin): http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=33445
(I have never used it so I have no experience with it)[/quote]

What I was hoping to do is to just transfer the wheat image onto the door facing and somehow raise or recess the image it as if the wood facing has the wheat image carved or routered into the wood. Once I get all of the doors taken care of, I have drawer facings that need to be embellished to match the doors. Just so that you will know, these items are for a kitchen island with cooktop that I am designing for the wifes upcoming MAJOR kitchen remodel. The wheat jpg is actually a pattern for etching glass that was used on a couple of glass panels in her China Cabinet. Obviously, she wants the island to mimic and match the cabinet.

As for the image editor, I have Photo Shop and Paint Shop Pro. Both of which should come in as useful tools to use with SketchUp. All I have to do is to learn how to integrate either one or both with SketchUp. AS I stated in my first post, I am a newbe to SketchUp (only a few weeks of use) and have a lot to learn. I have a lot of hand drawn renderings collected over the years that I have drawn and hope to recreate them in the program rather than having a 3 ring notebook filled with paper, dividers and tabs.

@gaieus said:

Do you only want the wheat or also the grey background on the door?

If yes, the image needs to first of all be converted to png with a transparent background instead of the grey now. Then we can move on. Can you do that? Do you have a proper image editor?

Let's try this again ... hope it works this time

Cabinet Door 3.skp

Thanks for the reply. Here are the two items that I am attempting to merge (per wifey's deman ... oops ... request)

Being a newbe to Sketchup, I did a little playing around with it and watched quite a few of the MANY tutorials as I learned (and continue to learn) about the basic tool functions. Now that I have familiarized myself with the basic toolbar functions, I thought that I would join a forum in order learn a little more "in depth" as I create new designs and projects (my first was a simple Gazebo).

Now with that having been said, forgive me for asking stupid, dumb and/or silly questions AND forgive me for asking this following question in this forum ... Direct me to the right forum location in order to get the question answered.

Now for the question ... I have a flat surface that I want to create a raised or possibly a recessed image on from a jpeg picture that I have (using the jpeg as a guide). To get a little more specific, the flat surface is a kitchen cabinet door and the jpeg that I want to get on the face is of a drawn image of a bundle of wheat. The question that I have is what suggestions and/or directions are out there as to the best way of achieving this task.

Thanks in advance and I look forward to participation in this forum in the future. Maybe one day I can be one that helps answer others questions rather than always being the "Question asker" ... LOL

Chevy