Any way to have two layers of differing view sizes?

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(02-20-2022, 05:08 PM). InTheBanworld Wrote:

(02-20-2022, 04:39 PM)programmer_ceds Wrote: Perhaps this is what you want?

Select "View/New View". You can zoom the views independently - so in your case zoom view A to 16 times the magnification of view B and draw on view B. Works best if you are running GIMP not in single window mode and have more than one monitor - or a wide monitor to be able to arrange the two windows side by side.

I don't have two monitors but perhaps this will make more sense:

I have a high quality photo of a house and I want to redraw it in a pixelart style. I wish to use the photo as a background layer and I set the drawing layer's opacity to 50% so that I can use the background for reference. Since I am drawing pixel art, I need the background to have different PPI than the layer I am draawing on.


Does this help perhaps?

Just use a 4x4 (or 8x8) square brush (and the Pencil tool) for your pixel art (and at the same time set up the image grid to the same spacing)