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Use Mudbox with image editors

You can work concurrently on the same texture map using Mudbox and other image editing applications such as Adobe® Photoshop®. This lets you use the wider range of image editing features with the 3D painting power of Mudbox. Mudbox provides a customized workflow for exchanging and updating paint layers between the applications.

Use Mudbox with Adobe Photoshop

You can work concurrently on the same texture map using Mudbox and Adobe® Photoshop®. This lets you use the wider range of image editing features within Photoshop and the advanced 3D painting power of Mudbox.

The workflow allows you to export and re-import paint layers between Mudbox and Photoshop. For a description of this workflow, 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, the following workflow can be used.

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.
   - Edit the image in image editor and save the image.
4. To import any image editor-based edits made on an image into Mudbox, do the following:
   - Save the texture image file in the image editor.
   - Refresh the texture image in Mudbox by selecting the corresponding paint layer within Mudbox and selecting Refresh Selected from the paint layer menu.

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

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