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Hi Natascha and Viktor,

First of all, thank you for such an amazing tool! As an environment artist, PureRef is an absolute must-have in my daily workflow.

I would like to suggest a new feature: Layered Images (or Image Parenting).

The Concept:
The idea is to allow attaching or "pinning" a smaller, high-resolution detail image directly onto a specific spot of a larger base image (like a sprawling landscape, concept art, or a city map).

How it would work in practice:

Coordinate Locking: The detail image becomes a "child" of the base image. When you move or scale the parent image, the child follows.

Strict Z-Order: The child image always stays on top of its parent, regardless of other sorting.

Nesting: The hierarchy can go deeper. You could attach an even more detailed crop to the first child image (e.g., Main Landscape -> Building close-up -> Brick texture).

Why this is useful:
When working on large-scale environments, I often need to reference both the macro layout and the micro details. Placing them side-by-side works, but you lose the spatial context of where that detail belongs.

With this feature, I could place high-res snippets exactly where they belong on the main canvas. To examine a detail, I would simply zoom into that specific area of the main image, essentially creating an infinite-zoom canvas with localized high-res textures.

Thank you for considering this idea and for your continuous work on PureRef!

Best regards

Example: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55413084739_0f02b72556_b.jpg

Thank you for the suggestions! Image parenting already exists and works exactly as you describe it, you can read about it here! Currently, child items move with their parent items but aren't scaled automatically. However, if you select both the parent and the child, you can scale them together.