This all seems very buggy to me.. Still in CS5. I often have problems too, merging the photo down to the model layer. Sometimes nothing does happen and IF it works finally then I have strange artefacts in the face. When I'm applying the ear then, it projects the ear texture to other polygons too. Very strange, I'm still testing around, but what tips I can give you are: try not to scale the model, but scale the texture to fit (only rotate the model) try to open up the texture in PS and then create the model layer, after this you should be able to scale up / down your texture layer I don't know how I can access into this rendering menu shown in the video, where he sets specular and all that stuff. I only have my Diffuse texture which I can switch on and off. Could you please send me this head model from yourself via PM if it is one that goes to 1.08 / 1.09?