For pixel art the most awesome tool would be a coffee maker. 

Hey buddy what language are you using. I think the kind folk here couls assist you in creating a good app. Some snap modes might be nice like snap to a grid size, hold shift to make perfect circles and boxes, and strait linesmaybe an iso snap mode. Also make sme new fill modes, DEFENATLY a small tile viewing thing for making grass tiles and such.

If you ad tools like blur you will be sent to the Pixel Joint Dungeons....that's where all the mods put the bad member accounts.

I believe you get a preemptive warning or two first though. And you must do a written apology and 5 good art pieces measuring 640x480 to get out.

 

Ok good luck and if i think of more features i'll post again.

may be you could do some dither pattern fills. Like color every odd or even pixel and also different dither opatterns

AND PALETTE SAVING!!!!!!! Oh and a tool to create a palette from all the used colors. And a color count variable too!

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw

I wish they had pixen for windows that looks pretty cool.

Yes adding instances would be ok but then you need a merge down command or the user will flood their memory.

Mmmh, ok, in the past i had some ideas and they werent that wrong ^^ but you guys pointed me in the best direction... heres what im planning to add (With time heehhe ^^):

2 grid modes: squared and isometric, add the 'snap to grid' option, maybe support for layers and instances (altough this would require more time).

At the beginning, it should have customizable saveable color palettes, the snap to grid thingie and some useful tools, like a paint bucket with a configurable tolerance level, a line tool that, depending on teh user, could follow one of the 12 'perfect isometric lines', depending on the angle of the first and second point the tool would suggest one of the lines (ya kno.... 0°, 25.565°, 45°, ... and so on)

Right now im not skilled at java imaging but im learning, some sort of beta could be ready in within 1 month.

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions, i will work hard to try to make yer dreams cometrue ^^

Keep up the good pixel art!

of course! and thanks a lot ^^ i really appreciate your help, i will be using NetBeans, like we say in mexico... bueno, bonito y barato (good, nice 'n cheap)... actually, it is free, and about a name... iwas thinking about APE (Advanced Pixel Editor) and we could use a lil monkey as a logo hehehehe

mmmmmh... about transparency.... is that OK in pixel art? :p because i guess some purists would not like that because it might make things a bit easier ^^ well... instead of transparent layer, it could be easier defining transparency within the color itself, using 32 bit colors would be a good choice, (RGBA).

Anyway.... what would be better... transparent colors, oooooor transparent layers? the only problem is that layers are something that i hope will be added in a near future, but at the beginning, i was thinking about only 1 layer :p, later i have planned at least 2 or 3 kinds of layer:

free painting layer (for the non isometric pixel guy or for the isometric guys who like to add a little variety to their thingies)

tiled layers (here you put your tiles :p)

And i was also thinking of parametric layers, this ones should help to build basic shapes, like cubes, simple prisms, rooms, stairs, stuff like that, but the shapes should be parametric.

Well... thats some of the new stuff that will be added with time, please be patient ^^

Must have items.

100% Preview with TILING option (very important)

brush tool with different sizes

Eraser with different sizes

Layers

The ability to choose if you background is going to be transparent. That way if your creating something that will be transparent, you just specify transparent background when you create a new file. Maybe show a pattern in the back to show the transparent parts like in photoshop. Thats one of my pet peaves with graphics gale. I always just take everything out and into photoshop to make transparent.

Customizable pallettes

eye dropper tool

cutom grids

frames so you can make animate

a replace color tool so you can use the eye dropper, pick a color and change all of that color.

move tool

circle and square selection tools

fill tool

Make all that and i'd buy it.

already available, Photoshop

Photoshop doesnt have a 100% preview or a tileing preview.


Edited by kwigbo