Preparing to Texture Paint

Blender gives you the ability to decorate and color your UV Map within its interface. It has tools very similar to other image editing tools such as Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, or GIMP. It has a Fill tool, for example, that will allow you to color a whole section at once. Before you begin, you have to assign a material to your object and set up an image to save the design.

The steps are as follows:

  1. Change the object interaction mode to Texture Paint:
Switching to Texture Paint mode
  1. The hand turns bright white. In the Tool Shelf on the left side of the screen, there is a warning letting you know the object is missing ...

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