Editing a mesh to fit an image?

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I’m sure there’s a simple way to do this, and would appreciate advice… Imagine a square 2-D plane with an image of say a leaf mapped onto it. What’s the easiest way to edit the mesh so that it adopts the shape of the leaf?

Thanks in advance

Clive

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Hey, well I’d load the leaf as a background image in the modelling view, then just move the verts around with Xray on (zkey).

View->BackgroundImage (only visible in orthographic views, and camera view)

S.

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This way works pretty well:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:Noob_to_Pro/2D_Image%28logo%29_to_a_3D_Model

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Thanks for the advice: it was the x-ray mode I needed and couldn’t find! In my laziness and innocence I’d thought I might just be able to draw round the outline and have a mesh edited to that shape, but hey these methods will do the trick. Thanks again.