In most cases, this is what we need to add a texture to an object and see it: We can now see the texture on the default cube. Click and drag the yellow dot on the new image texture node and drop it on the yellow dot named 'Base color' in the 'Principled BSDF' node. How to add a texture in Blender? Go to the shading tab, drag and drop an image texture into the lower portion of the interface. I also want to expand on just adding a texture so that you can do simple adjustments when needed. In this article I explain how to use textures in Blender in the simplest way I can.