Wrapping a cylinder- what am I doing wrong?

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I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I am making a cylinder, adding subsurf to it. Creating loop cuts to shape what I need. I am making sure Correct UV is clicked in the loop slide. Yet I when I try to wrap my label, I used UNwrap as cylinder projects gave me a curvy uv, it keeps giving me this border on the top and bottom of my graphic smooshing my label. When I turn subsurf off the label goes to the seams. I did figure it out on a previous model yet I had know idea what I did. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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Looks to me like you haven’t put a seam across the ends of the cylinder.
Here’s a little example, hope it helps.

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UV_Cycl.blend (1.35 MB)

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I’m going to take a wild guess, as this happens a lot… Was the object scale applied before modifying the mesh? CTRL-A in object mode should give you the option to apply scaling.

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thanks! I think I have figured it out

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Cylinders aren’t very fun to UV. You can fake it with a plane/cube just as well.

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Just using a cylinder projection and tweaking the uvs is more than enough. You will usually never get a perfect uv map in the first try no matter how simple is the object.

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I think this might have happened. I am a noob so I just press buttons alot.