Inserting a REFERENCE PHOTO in Blender

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In today’s video, we’re going to learn how to bring in a reference image into Blender version 2.82.

This can be a very important step for modeling lots of different kinds of objects, as getting symmetry and shape ratios correct can make the difference between really good models and poor models.

To insert an image into Blender, simply find the image in the folder on your computer and drag it into your viewport. However, when you do this, you need to be a bit careful, as the image comes in aligned to your camera view.
This means you need to make sure that you’ve aligned your camera along whatever axis you want to model along. In most cases, this means a front or side view.

Set your front/side view, then drag your image into your viewport. This will import your image as an empty. You can rename it in your scene collection if you’d like. Then it’s just a matter of scaling and aligning your image!
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Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

TheCGEssentials
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Is there a way of locking the reference image so we don't keep clicking it by mistake do you know? many thanks

ten-ubxd
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Thanks for the great tutorial! One problem I'm having: the image is imported at some arbitrary scale (extremely small) and I'd like to import it at a specific scale so that the size of the object I model will be correct when I print it on my 3D printer. I did manage to scale the reference image correctly the hard way, by creating an object of known size and scaling the image so that its X dimension matches that, then duplicating that same scale on the Y axis, but it required a bit of juggling to get the image aligned properly with the object. I scanned the reference image at 300 dpi, and I'd like to know if there is a way to specify that to Blender so that the reference image can be set directly to the correct scale.

TheSockMonkeyGuy
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After you do this, for some reason it will not let me go into any mode except object mode.

raika
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come on guys!!
31K views and less than 500 likes !!?

GIANT-JAWS
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Do you just set the ref right in the midel and having the mesh right in the center .
That feels weird to do but i sort of get it

turboyabo
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How do you make the refence photo show in blender?

DragonNuts
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What's the best way to extract the multiple views of the blueprint in order to maintain scale & having individual views for each object?

TorchOnTarget