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Edit textures externally

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Mastry, and today, we're going to look at ways to edit images externally from SketchUp. Now this is something you may or may not have done before, but we can attach an external image editor to SketchUp, and that way, you can edit your materials in a proper image editor. And it's actually fairly easy to set up. We just need to go into our Preferences window. We're going to go into Window Preferences. And then, under Applications, we need to tell it which image editor we want to use. I'm going to go ahead and select Choose. And in this case, I'm just going to choose the most recent version of Photoshop. Now you can use other image editors if you want, but I'm using Photoshop. I'm going to go ahead and open that. And it puts in that link and we're going to select OK. So now, once I have this model selected, I can go in and edit the texture. I just need to dig down into this model, so I'm going to double-click on the model here. And then just right-click over a…

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