How to put a grid on your reference image which matches the grid on the canvas

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Somebody asked me once to do a tutorial on how they might put a grid over their reference picture that matches the grid on the canvas - even when zoomed in and out.
The question was put forth to a Facebook group and a few people said it couldn’t be done (as a general feature). So I found this work-around and am sharing it incase anyone finds it useful.

Although - if it turns out there IS an easy way to plop a matching grid onto a reference picture without all the steps I took, do let me know and I can do a new tutorial on that! :grin:

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This is an amazing tip. Thank you for sharing it here.

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Nice workaround. If I may add one more way.

  • Import the image as a layer or just drag and drop in to the document under the grid.

  • then resize the image like you did to match the whole image dimension.

  • then select all with ctrl A , then copy visible ctrl shift c

  • then paste as reference image ctrl shift R

  • delete the imported layer - shift del.

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I just knew someone would come along with a simpler/more effective way. Thank you very much!
Plus, I didn’t know Krita did it’s own canvas screenshots with ‘copy visible’. Very useful! :smile:

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Yeah I use the copy visible and paste as reference shortcut a lot. Often times when I am working on a big image and I want to refer some portion of the image from some other region I copy it and paste as reference. saves lot of time that is otherwise spent on panning around.

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@raghukamath Ctrl+Shift+C is ‘Copy Merged’. I can’t find any reference to ‘Copy Visible’.

I tried your instructions and the Ctrl+Shift+R gave a reference image that did not have the grid on it.
So, I’m puzzled.

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Aah yes the grid is not a vector object. I forgot that @Sketchy is using the grid and not lines created by vector. That is why I wrote under the grid.

Copy visible is copy merged I mixed up the term.

In case of using the grid a screenshot is good and not copy merged. May be you can screenshot by drawing a rectangle like in KDE plasma and paste it directly from clipboard as a reference

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