Blender Noob, After saving and reopening textures and meshes are blacked out

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So I’m pretty new to using blender i took a class in it in college but we never did much with textures or meshes. I’ve been trying to follow a tutorial with a cobblestone floor. I finish and save the mesh using blender render. I close out and reopen the same file the mesh and textures are completely blacked out. I save them as a .blender file.

I was wondering if I’m supposed to save it as a different file type or if anyone has a good tutorial to follow that has to do with baking and textures.

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What textures are you using ?

If you create your own image texture in blender you will have to save the texture (Image / Save as Image menu) before you save your blend file