Thank you for your reply. I will try the suggestions that you made.

Hello,

I am new to Sketchup and I am trying to texture a square column, using a picture of the wood grain and color I want texureize the column with.  I am having trouble eliminating  the tiling on the vertical plane.  When I try to make the texture fit it becomes stretched out.  How can I keep the texture scale without distorting it?