I’ve always been a little annoyed that I couldn’t find an open source reference image viewer that does what I want it to do, and a while back I thought: how hard could it be to code one myself? I’m finally at a point where I think it’s presentable:
Update: Latest release is 0.3.3
Website: beeref.org
Version 0.3.3 adds the ability to configure mouse and mousewheel behaviour, picking colours, plus various fixes.
This can be in the resources category :).
Thanks, I moved it! Didn’t want to presume because it’s not directly related to Krita. 
Hi @Rebecca and thank you 
The resize by dragging a corner works well but I can’t resize by dragging an edge, even though the icon changes to indicate that I can.
I’m sure we’ll all look forward to future releases when you have time.
The egdes are actually click to flip. I wasn’t planning on supporting off-ratio scaling so I thought I could use the edge for something else and I tend to flip reference images a lot, but I can see how it is confusing. Maybe I can try something different for the icon.
This looks great, and seems to work perfectly.
This is a great simple and very useful image ref display, It’s perfect, seems to have everything you’d need.
What system is this designed for? (Windows, Mac, Linux) Can this work on Android?
A simple click on the link would have told you it’s for Linux, Windows and MAc, with the Mac version experimental
There are executables for Linux, macOS and Windows (though the Mac build is experimental since I can’t test it myself).
BeeRef is written in PyQt6, so it can run on Android and iOS as well, however it’s a) currently not designed with a touch display in mind, and b) I have currently no device or other possibility to provide executables for Android or iOS. a) is something I want to look into and probably not too hard to do, and I do have a laptop with touch display at my disposal to test it on, but b) is going to be tricky for me at the moment. If anyone wants to help with this, let me know.
Anyone who knows to run Python programs on their Android should already be able to run BeeRef on it now.
@Rebecca Do you want us to report any problems in this topic?
I have one but I need to investigate it further to try to find a definite repeatable cause.
If you have a github account, you could use the discussions there, or open a bug report https://github.com/rbreu/beeref/issues. You can also just DM me so that we don’t spam the Krita forum too much.
Release is 0.1.1 is out with a couple of small fixes, and dark style menus to match the canvas.
There’s also a small website now: beeref.org
I’m currently working on the ability to add plain text notes. 
Thank you for the upgrades @Rebecca 
The links to your website don’t work but the links to your github do work.
@raghukamath might know why that is.
I made a launcher icon for BeeRef but your logo looks much better so …
“https://” was missing in the markdown, fixed now
very cool software, thank you for posting it!
the fact that its made with pyqt6 has me thinking it should be easy to wrap this into a krita plugin when the devs decide to bump krita up to qt6 (krita 6 seems appropriate haha)
since I saw a tweet from david revoy talking about beeref I tried to install it in my pc running a linux mint but couldnt make it work. any help would be so much apreciated! thanks in advance
Do you mean it doesn’t start?
Could you start it from a terminal window and see if there’s an error message? Especially helpful would be the output of starting it like this:
QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 BeeRef-0.1.1
when I try to install it from the terminal it says ‘unable to locate package’
and thanks for your quick reply!!!
You can’t install it from Mint. You download the zip file, extract it and there’s an executable file (BeeRef-0.1.1) inside that you can run directly.
