[forest jacobsen] ” I have tried making it edible and selecting the area but that only applies a portion of the image”
I would advise not to eat the polygons. they might get stuck in your throat 🙂
Have you been able to get the image onto the polygons you selected and not the whole sphere? If so then you are half way there. like I said before, use the texture tool to scale and resize the texture to fit the selection. Make sure you don’t have the texture projection on UVW Mapping, otherwise the texture tools won’t work. play with the other projection modes.
matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…