Drawing directly on the image

If the grid square button is pressed then a menu of grid square options appears. The first of these is the option to draw directly on the image. When this is selected the expanded view of the pixels disappears and only the image itself is visible. At this point it is possible to do all drawing directly on the image. This means IconPainter can be used to create large images with all the same tools used to create small images.

It's also the case that it's not a good idea to work with a grid that has too many pixels in it even though IconPainter can support this. Often a very large grid is very slow to work with and operations such as rotate and shift can be done much more quickly if drawing directly on the image.