But if you have a completely black square instead after adding a new texture without having specified the texture type and in case of an „Image or Movie Texture“ an appropriate file, then no color will be applied to your model’s texture
In this case click on the „X“ to the right of the texture’s name in order to delete this black texture …
… or click on the „Texture Preview Image“ (the black square in our example) …
… in order to browse a selection of textures you’ve already loaded …