How to Quickly Texture Your Models for Free in Blender

In this tutorial, I show you how to quickly and easily texture your 3D models in Blender using free images found online. We'll cover how to find high-quality image resources, how to apply the textures to your models, and how to adjust the settings to get the perfect look. This tutorial is perfect for Blender beginners or anyone looking to speed up their texturing workflow. Follow along and you'll be texturing your models like a pro in no time!

[martinmardoek]

Thnx.

One tip: If you want to create maps, check out "Materialize"...

[gabrielkiam]

Amazing Tutorial man!!! Helped me a lot! Best wishes here from Brazil!

[rexrip]

A small addition to help new people: You can use a free piece of software called Materialize to make maps. So you can put your image texture in it, then make high, ao and normal, save them and import them into blender to give your model a bit of additional realism. It is the one I used before I got into procedural texturing, I always hated that part of the process so I automatized it, now I just unwrap everything and bake :)

[Smooth_Shading]

Terrific use of Gimp in conjunction with Blender! The result is really nice. Keep up the great work, brother!

[FilmSpook]

You're an Awesome Teacher, thanks for this excellent tutorial, my Friend!! Best Wishes 🙏🏾

[ExtrymGamingLTU]

For a book tutorial this was very informative

[biblegeezer]

Thanks for this, very straightforward and interesting.

[-The_Architect-]

i didn't know you could make a normal map in gimp, thats really good to know. when doing the pages i think using a bump node with the starting image and a color ramp provides a better look than the normal map

[Artistramd]

This is Brilliant, thank you! Instant Sub!

[DavidLGood]

I'm thinking maybe it would be easier to set the texture prior to beveling the model... fewer loops/faces to select. Maybe not (could just be my inexperience). Also -- I didn't realize Gimp would output a normal texture like that (good tip)! I'm still waiting for Gimp to work on my machine (Mac). I have the 'fonts' problem with Gimp, where it will not show any form of readable text in the menu system or dialog boxes (not sure why). If effects some people, but not most. Thanks for the video -- really enjoyed it.

[The-Sentinel]

great video. your audio is really low on this though. just fyi

[SuperSuperka]

Blender seems to be rather bad in working with UVs.

[rubberdog]

Great tutorial thanks a lot for your time