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Use background images

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we're going to take a look at a simple way to get a background image or a photograph integrated with your model. So here I have a very simple model. And maybe we want to show this in its actual location to give a client an idea as to how this would look. So we can do this using background images. Now, background images really aren't a feature in SketchUp It's really something that we use called watermarking which is part of styles. So the first thing I want to do is go ahead to my styles window. Now, in our styles window if you recall we can create all sorts of different styles that we want. And if we want, we can go into things that have say, sketchy edges or brushstrokes or whatever. But I'm going to go ahead into just the basic... styles in the model... and select the default style. Now, whichever style you choose you add in the background image by editing it. Now, with every style we can go over to the edit menu so we can turn on things…

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