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Welcome to a series of blender tutorials that tackle basic issues regarding UV maps.

So First of all, WHAT IS A UV MAP ?

UV mapping stands for the technique used to "wrap" a 2D image texture onto a 3D mesh. "U" and "V" are the name of the axes of a plane, since "X", "Y" and "Z" are used for the coordinates in the 3D space. For example: increasing your "V" on a sphere might move you along a longitude line (north or south), while increasing your "U" might move you along a line of latitude (east or west).

Imagine a paper 3D model of an object, e.g. a sphere, that is to be laid flat on a table. Each of the 3D coordinate of the sphere can be mapped to the 2D coordinate on the flat piece of paper. Blender provides another view of the vertexes(coordinates) in the UV/Image Editor. You can select and edit these 2D vertexes just like in the 3D Editor window. The purpose of this unwrapping of the coordinates is just to map these coordinates to images/pictures so that the 3D image can have a realistic looking surface with textures derived from these images.

You are welcome to post your tutorials, tutorials from the net, stuff that helped you here and I'll link it here in the first post

sorry for the long posts filled with images, hopefully this helped you

* oh and to split the windows into 2, right click the upper part and select split windows.