How do i load an image into the viewports???

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I have two questions:

  1. I have seen many tutorials where you load an image into the “viewports” and then sort of trace over it to get a good start to your project. One example is on: https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21066
    could someone please explain to me how i load an image onto the background or whatever? Like step by step, i’ve looked and have no idea where do go.

  2. First let me set this up, i am currently working on making a horse. When i start to make the grass and the world and environment around it (like the trees, fences, maybe those things they gotta jump over in competitions and stuff) is there any certain way i want to go about making the world around them? Simply, is that what the “world” button is for? I haven’t been able to figure out how to do anything except the main image i wanna make, and always just figured i would set up a horozontal plane for the ground and a verticle plane for the background and just sort of fit it all in.

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hi, to set an image in your 3d viewport, just go to ‘view’ ( on the main header ) then choose ‘background image’, and you’ll be presented with a menu. as to the world buttons, ‘the world’ is basically a huge sphere that surrounds your scene. you can give it a clouds texture, animate the clouds texture, add stars and mist, or you can use a panoramic image loaded as a world texture as a backdrop. you can also control exposure, offset, and a numer of other things from the world buttons.

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Thankyou much modron

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Hmm… well sorry but now i went into view and background image - I selected the picture i want. For some reason it won’t go onto the background. Is there an apply button i am missing? Under Image: thing it has the address for my image file and i have the Use Background Image button clicked.

(sorry if my posts are long but i want to give you all the info you might need so we don’t have to go back and forth for a long time tryin to figure it out :wink:

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you have to be in one of the regular views to see it, ie. top view, side view, front view, which can be toggled with numberpad 1,5,7 etc.

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there we go, i got it now. Thankyou very much, again
you just made making a horse’s leg much less painful