Blender 2.6: uv unwrapping and texture painting

In this 19 minute video I use ’uv unwrapping’ to transform the 3D surface of Suzanne’s head into a 2D (’uv’) surface. This unwrapped 2D image could be exported to a specialized graphics application such as Photoshop or the GIMP, worked on there and imported back into Blender, but instead I do the painting in Blender itself. This is not very conventional but it is simple and it avoids most of the problems of textures not matching at seams. The video also shows the use of the mirror modifier, the subdivision