diff --git a/Plugins.UserInterface/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface/Controls/DrawingArea/DrawingAreaControl.cs b/Plugins.UserInterface/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface/Controls/DrawingArea/DrawingAreaControl.cs
index af37b350..91254bb1 100644
--- a/Plugins.UserInterface/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface/Controls/DrawingArea/DrawingAreaControl.cs
+++ b/Plugins.UserInterface/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface/Controls/DrawingArea/DrawingAreaControl.cs
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ namespace UniversalEditor.Controls.DrawingArea
 			else
 			{
 				Console.WriteLine("new picture dimensions {0}x{1}", mvarPicture.Width, mvarPicture.Height);
+
 				Image image = mvarPicture.ToImage();
+				e.Graphics.DrawImage(image, 0, 0);
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/Plugins.UserInterface/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface/PictureObjectModelExtensions.cs b/Plugins.UserInterface/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface/PictureObjectModelExtensions.cs
index f5cea3bb..58ad6096 100644
--- a/Plugins.UserInterface/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface/PictureObjectModelExtensions.cs
+++ b/Plugins.UserInterface/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface/PictureObjectModelExtensions.cs
@@ -37,17 +37,21 @@ namespace UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia.UserInterface
 		/// <param name="pic">The <see cref="PictureObjectModel" /> containing the image data to convert.</param>
 		public static Image ToImage(this PictureObjectModel pic)
 		{
-			Image image = Image.Create(pic.Width, pic.Height);
-			Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(image);
-
-			for (int x = 0; x < pic.Width; x++)
+			byte[] input = pic.ToByteArray();
+			byte[] output = new byte[input.Length];
+			for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i += 4)
 			{
-				for (int y = 0; y < pic.Height; y++)
-				{
-					Color c = pic.GetPixel(x, y);
-					g.DrawLine(new Pen(c), x, y, x + 1, y + 1);
-				}
+				byte b = input[i];
+				byte g = input[i + 1];
+				byte r = input[i + 2];
+				byte a = input[i + 3];
+
+				output[i] = r;
+				output[i + 1] = g;
+				output[i + 2] = b;
+				output[i + 3] = a;
 			}
+			Image image = Image.FromBytes(output, pic.Width, pic.Height, pic.Stride);
 			return image;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/Plugins/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia/ObjectModels/Multimedia/Picture/PictureObjectModel.cs b/Plugins/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia/ObjectModels/Multimedia/Picture/PictureObjectModel.cs
index 2ae2cc39..a9297f3d 100644
--- a/Plugins/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia/ObjectModels/Multimedia/Picture/PictureObjectModel.cs
+++ b/Plugins/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Multimedia/ObjectModels/Multimedia/Picture/PictureObjectModel.cs
@@ -37,6 +37,20 @@ namespace UniversalEditor.ObjectModels.Multimedia.Picture
 
 		private PositionVector2 lastAddedLocation = new PositionVector2(0, 0);
 
+		public int Stride
+		{
+			get
+			{
+				// thanks https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2185944/why-must-stride-in-the-system-drawing-bitmap-constructor-be-a-multiple-of-4
+
+				// this calculation is CORRECT (at least on gdkpixbuf) so ***DON'T TOUCH IT***
+				int bitsPerPixel = 32; // ((int)format & 0xff00) >> 8;
+				int bytesPerPixel = 4; // (bitsPerPixel + 7) / 8; // wtf???
+				int stride = 4 * ((Width * bytesPerPixel + 3) / 4);
+				return stride;
+			}
+		}
+
 		public List<Color> ColorMap { get; } = new List<Color>();
 
 		public void SetPixel(Color color)