Unable to place a reference image to use

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I’m following a tutorial on Modeling a Female Body Series 1. It shows where you place a picture as a reference and then build over it. The tutorial said to open the File Browser and then find the jpg file and just drag it to the work space and it will show up, I done and tried and no picture, I deleted the cube so as not to drop the image in a object. I also know that I have to be in Orthographic mode not Perspective so I toggled it by the Numpad 5. I have tried this many times and no luck.

I have done this on a brand new computer, my new lap top, and my office computer which is new also a new Dell. I have downloaded blender 2.63 and removed the installed one to make sure it was a good install and still will not place the image as a reference. Please any help would be welcome. Harry

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Does it show up in the Background Images section of the properties panel (shortcut N). If it doesn’t work by dragging in an image just select it from this panel

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No still nothing!

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I hit the shortcut N but nothing happen. When I drag the image to the other screen where I want it to be it says something about a background.

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You need to supply more info. Blend files, screenshots/screencasts showing EXACTLY what you are doing. Without this kind of info no-one can give you any specific help

When I drag the image to the other screen
What other screen ?

says something about a background.
Says what ?

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Okay sorry for that I have divided blender screen into 2 half’s on the left I opened the File Browser from there I click on a JPG file and drag it to the right side. When I do a message comes up and it says add background image, when I let it go nothing happens, but now after I did this twice I have a properties panel up and it shows the title there but does not show up in the screen. Here is a screen shot

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I sent you a reply with a screen shot that has been some time ago, and I still have not seen it? Is there something wrong with what I sent you?

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Your posts were caught in our moderation filter (side effect of being a new member with less than 10 posts). The posts should be visible now.

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To show a background image you’ll need to be in orthographic view and also in one of the specified views such as front, back, top, left etc. use the numpad keys to go into one of those views ensuring you’re still in orthographic

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other common tactic is called the image plane… where you add a plane and map your reference image to the texture

that one is best used when the angle your working to isn’t a pure orthograpic

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To show a background image you’ll need to be in orthographic view and also in one of the specified views such as front, back, top, left etc. use the numpad keys to go into one of those views ensuring you’re still in orthographic.

I tried this also with no results. I do not understand I read how to do it and others do it, when I try nothing, the computer must not like me right now.

other common tactic is called the image plane… where you add a plane and map your reference image to the texture that one is best used when the angle your working to isn’t a pure orthographic
I’m not sure of that way. I’m just learning and finding it to be more of a hand full. Thank you all so far

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That’s strange. You could try to open the images in UV/Image editor and see if they show up there. If you have loaded the images as backgrounds, you only have to select them from the list.

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It’s easier with an empty object. Add an empty, go to object data tab and change its display type to image. If you need more axes, add more empties.

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Thank you I’m not sure how but I have it now. Thank you all. I thought I was going nuts. I hope that it gets a bit easier now, but I know it will not. Again THANK YOU ALL