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Opening reference images in the viewport

Opening reference images in the viewport - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Tips & Tricks

Opening reference images in the viewport

- There are lots of ways to use reference images with ZBrush. You can open them in a separate image viewer in a different monitor. Or you can import them as image planes on the grid, just to name two methods. One interesting way to do it is by loading the pictures into Spotlight. Let's see how it works. Okay, before I load images in, let's just get a scene to start working with. If you don't have the Lightbox opened already, just go ahead and hit the comma key. And I'm just going to open the DynaMesh sphere, doesn't really matter which one. Okay, let's get some images. I'm going to go into the Texture menu. And let's import some images. Let's go into the Exercise files. Reference Images. And I'm just going to shift-click to get all three of these and open them at once. Okay, so back in the Texture menu, you can see we've got these three owl pictures. We're going to add these to Spotlight. So let's click on one of them. And come down here to this button that's Add To Spotlight. Okay…

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