1) When you copy an image and its in clipboard memory,it would be nice to have a button or dropdown to choose "load from clipboard" 2)when an image is already in the layer stack it would be nice if you could convert it to a refernce image and vice versa
The load from clipboard part is already present. You can add a reference image via edit > Paste as reference image. It has a default shortcut too which is ctrl + shift + R As for the second point, i would request the same too. +1 If you don't mind should I change the title of the bug from - Load reference images from clipboard/ convert from paint layer to - [Wish] Add an option to convert the current layer into a reference image
sure that is fine ^^
For those still interested, here's a link to track progress/provide feedback on a patch to implement this feature in v4.4.2: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/635
New MR link: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/636
That was merged in https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/b6210a55dd28b182e481fe0530dce977afe5d094
I'm sorry, I made a mistake. This wish has not been implemented yet. The commit I linked was for bug 340643.