# Texture Painting External Projections

In Blender, there's this pretty nifty feature that I quite literally learned about 10 minutes ago before writing this.

In **Texture Paint** mode, under the **Tools** tab, at the bottom under **Options**, there's an **"External"** tab with a few options. This right here will take a snapshot of your current view in your 3D Viewport and open it in your selected image editing software.

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If you do not have an external image editor selected in Blender, go to your **Preferences&gt;File Paths&gt;Applications** and select the .exe of your preferred image editor.

[![image-1649970932720.png](https://vrclibrary.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2022-04/scaled-1680-/image-1649970932720.png)](https://vrclibrary.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2022-04/image-1649970932720.png)

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I'm using Clip Studio Paint for this, however any image editor should work.

[![image-1649971081327.png](https://vrclibrary.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2022-04/scaled-1680-/image-1649971081327.png)](https://vrclibrary.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2022-04/image-1649971081327.png)

From here you can draw on top of the image project however you like, once you're done, save the image.

<p class="callout danger">Overwrite the existing image or it won't work!</p>

Once done, you hit "Apply" in Blender and the projection will be applied to your model!

[![image-1649971290548.png](https://vrclibrary.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2022-04/scaled-1680-/image-1649971290548.png)](https://vrclibrary.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2022-04/image-1649971290548.png)

Although be warned the lower res your texture is the worse quality it'll come out. I reccommend segmenting the part you're working on like so to minimalize potential issues.

[![image-1649971389346.png](https://vrclibrary.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2022-04/scaled-1680-/image-1649971389346.png)](https://vrclibrary.com/wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2022-04/image-1649971389346.png)