Ok, hoped not to be back so soon. In principle, I understand how to create the plane and apply the image; in practice it's not working. As the image shows, it is not displaying the image on a 1:1 match on the surface, although the proportions match (the image is 1008x1498, the plane 10.08 x 14.98 - a large image, but I tried making it smaller to no avail). I've tried it both as a a normal texture and as a projection (which tiled it on the object, when I scaled it to fit it was terribly blurred), on the object's colour channel. Any idea where I am going wrong? All other values are at defaults. thanks, gubar.