 So Blender 2.8 has officially been released and it is absolutely fantastic. Everything I was worried about in 2.8 has been completely fixed and I am loving it. Bravo to the Blender development team because you guys really pulled through and it absolutely shows. Fantastic job guys. And if you're new here then you are extremely lucky because there has never been a better time to get into 3D software than right now. You will not find a better 3D program for a cheaper price than Blender 2.8. So download it right now if you haven't already. Now that we've covered the basics of UV mapping you are gonna need some legit image editing software. So before I cover any more Blender tutorials I just wanted to take a step back and make sure that we're all on the same page here. We will be doing all of our image editing in the GIMP. If you follow the link in the description and click on the little orange button you'll get the installer. And from that point just double click on it, install and say yes to everything. You'll get it on your computer no big deal. For those of you who don't know GIMP is like the 2D version of Blender. It's one of the best image editing software's you're going to find and it is totally free. Imagine Photoshop but more affordable. Once you have the GIMP on your computer the last thing that you will need to download is a normal map plugin which you can find a link for in the description. Once you download the zip you are going to need to find two places on your computer. The first one is in local disc C program files GIMP 2 lib GIMP 2.0 and plugins. The second place you'll need to find is in local disc C program files GIMP 2 and bin. Once you have found those two locations double click on the zip go inside and drag the file called normal map into the plugins area and then drag the 3DLL files into the bin area. And that's it. If you join me next video I will teach you exactly how to create all the most important types of maps that you will be using in Blender 2.8. It's gonna be fun so I hope you look forward to it. As always thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video please don't forget to like and subscribe. Hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.