Use Mudbox with image editors

Use Mudbox with Adobe Photoshop

You can work concurrently on the same texture map using Mudbox and Adobe^® Photoshop^®.

The workflow allows you to export and re-import paint layers between Mudbox and Photoshop. See Create and edit paint layers using Photoshop.

Use Mudbox with other image editors

If you need to work between Mudbox and an image editing application other than Photoshop, you can use the following workflow as a guideline.

1. Launch Mudbox and the other image editing application.
2. Open the texture image you want to edit in both applications.
3. To import any Mudbox-based edits made to the texture image into your image editor, do the following:
   • Save the scene file in Mudbox so the texture image file is saved to disk.
   • Refresh the texture image in the image editor by re-opening it using File > Open Recent (or equivalent option).
   • Edit the image in your image editor and save the image.

To import image editor-based edits into Mudbox

1. Save the texture image file in your image editor.
2. Refresh the texture image in Mudbox by selecting the corresponding paint layer within Mudbox and selecting Refresh Selected from the paint layer menu .

   Refresh Selected updates the image in Mudbox with the most recent version saved on disk.

Related topics

Saving images for stencils and stamps

Create and edit paint layers using Photoshop