A Easy Reference Picture Viewer
BeeRef helps you to shortly prepare your reference photographs and look at them when you create. Its minimal interface is designed to not get in the way in which of your inventive course of.
Set up
Get the file to your working system (Home windows, Linux, macOS) from the latest release.
Linux customers want to offer the file executable rights earlier than working it. Elective: If you wish to have BeeRef seem within the app menu, save the desktop file from the release section in ~/.native/share/purposes, save the logo, and regulate the trail names within the desktop file to match the placement of your BeeRef set up.
MacOS X customers, take a look at detailed instructions when you’ve got issues working BeeRef.
Options
- Transfer, scale, rotate and flip photographs
- Mass-scale photographs to the identical width, peak or measurement
- Mass-arrange photographs vertically, horizontally or for optimum utilization of area
- Add textual content notes
- Allow always-on-top-mode and disable the title bar to let the BeeRef window unobtrusively float above your artwork program:
Concerning the bee file format
At present, all photographs are embedded into the bee file as png information. Whereas png is a lossless format, it might additionally produce bigger file sizes than compressed jpg information, so bee information could turn into larger than the imported photographs on their very own. Extra embedding choices are to come back later.
The bee file format is a sqlite database inside which the photographs are saved in an sqlar desk—that means they are often extracted with the sqlite command line program:
Choices for exporting from inside BeeRef are deliberate, however the above all the time works independently of BeeRef.