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hi Dev team

Adding the ability to open the selected reference image in an editor like Krita or Photoshop via a shortcut or context menu option would be very useful

What do you think?

Thank you for the suggestion! Would you expect this to work for copy & pasted images as well or just for images that exist on disk?

hi Dev team

Just to make myself clear, I'm just a user, so everything I'm going to say next is just to make my point and try to respond to your message.
Maybe my way of presenting things is totally stupid and unrealistic, in which case I apologize.
These aren't claims, just ideas.

So

both would be perfect

but I understand from your answer that my request is more complex than I thought.
If I can open a reference image for editing in an editor, then the changes should be visible in pureref.

For an image that exists on disk, an option in the context menu to reload it is « sufficient »
or maybe an option to reload the pureref scene to reload all images, simpler but slower for scenes with many images.

but for copied and pasted images it's a bit tricky, how do you update in pureref an image edited in an editor that doesn't exist on disk ?

I'm thinking of several possibilities :


1) if you haven't saved the modification on the disk but simply copy in clip board the result then:

- You can paste the edited result as a new image and keep or delete the original image.
Or
- use an option like "update from clipboard" the selected image


2) if you have saved the changes from the editor (Krita, gimp, etc.) to disk :

- use an option to reload the image like "update from disk" which in this case will open the dialog box to select the file on disk.



Thank you for this great software

Thank you for elaborating! We'll keep it in mind if we get to adding this feature in the future. One possible solution could be that if the image is embedded in the .pur file we first export it to a temporary directory, and if that temporary copy changes we somehow reload it and replace the embedded copy.

Hi !

Oh yes! Exporting to a temporary file first makes more sense. Thanks for your reply and for taking the time to consider my suggestion.

Keep up the great work, your software is a gem!