Thanks for the reply. I have scaled images down and it does work great, but it would be much easier to convert a larger and higher-rez image if you could more clearly see the image in its original state. I like to paint pictures in very large, high resolution files for example, but when they get shrunk down to very small sizes they become nearly unrecognizable. Sometimes even the silhouette is just too far gone to use.
I made a test file when I scaled down the image and placed it on a new layer, which ill go ahead and add below. I took a random picture of Dante from DMC and shrunk it down, made a silhouette and used that to put together a pirate character. It turned out great but if you look at the scaled down picture of Dante you can make out a silhouette. But the picture I used was only of Dante the rest of the image was transparent and while the basic color scheme was also preserved it made it more difficult to convert efficiently .
In the grand scheme of things my problem is actually very minor, I know. I hoped there could be some feature that placed the original image in the background in a a way that's not actually part of any layer. In a way that was not effected by the canvas itself and could keep all of its detail. I know some programs that can do this but they are programs for 3d animation. I didn't really expect this kind of feature, but I hoped it would be there just to make things that much easier.
