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Photoshop / Zbrush Image Plane X Help

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#1

Hi, I’m new here and new to Zbrush and Photoshop and I really need some help.

This is more of a photoshop question rather than zbrush. I recently purchased and began using both programs. I saw in a tutorial online using a Photoshop Image Plane with two pictures put together as a means of creating reference within Zbrush for face sculpting.

However, it didn’t say anything about putting the pictures together in Photoshop on Photoshop’s Image Plane X file. I was hoping someone could give me the basic facts on how this is done. I have a front and side picture of a woman I’d like to sculpt, and I tried doing it from memory but it turned out horrible. So how do you take those two photos and resize them, and marge them together in Photoshop. Thank you so much.

Best,
Francesco

#2

there is an imageplaneX .psd file in the same place that the imageplaneX .ztl is located.

if you open that up in PS you will see a front and side view.
In PS (you didn’t mention the version so I’m going to assume cs4) you can have the selection tool selected (black arrow - top left - “v”) in the bar at the top you can turn on “show transform handles”

This will give you a bounding box that you can manipulate. If you grab a corner you can scale the object…hold shift (maybe alt) and you can scale it uniformly.

You can turn on the rulers (ctrl+R - view>show ruler) and then click and drag from a ruler onto the canvas to draw out guide lines. This will help you to line up the eyes, nose, etc.

Once you have both images in place and ready to go you’ll want to save out a new version of the .psd and place it in your working directory.

Hope this helps.