just like someone said earlier.... for pixel art deluxe paint is the shiz... seriously. i have heard about it for a long time, but thought it was only for amiga so i never tried to get it. not so. deluxe paint II was ported to dos, and deluxe paint animator was made for dos. these two should have all the tools you need, and then some. what makes them so cool is that they are built around the 256 collar pallete. it's not just the features that makes these programs cool, it's in the way that it does it. just try them out. the only drawback for me is that animator seems limited to 320x320, which is a bummer if you are doing gfx for the web, as ppl will be most likely looking at them at 1024x768, so you don't get a good "preview". but trust me, the advantages far outweigh the one con that i could find.

if you look around the web you can find them, it took me a faily deep search, but not as deep a search as it took to find 3d Studio r4, though. that took some work!!!

if anyone is interested in these programs, and CAN'T FIND THEM ON THE WEB, (not being a snob, but if you want something you should work for it at least a little, they're not THAT hard to find)... then hit me up at theoreyes25@yahoo.com , i'll hook you up.

PS: if anyone know how to get animator to work in 640xfoureighty, then please help a cracker out!

Also all you DOSheads from back in the day, there is a reason for you to build a PC just to install dos: OZONE GUI


Edited by theoreyes - 18 May 2007 at 12:32am

I think you mean Pixen. Beware it crashes often and is a pain when you lose your work. Photoshop Elements (US$50) is a great cheap alternative for macs. It comes free often when you buy other stuff like the low end Wacom tablet (US$100) and you get a tablet, woot.

some interesting things about Deluxe Paint:

• The main character of computer game series Monkey Island, Guybrush Threepwood, derives his first name from Deluxe Paint: When the programmers saved the (until then unnamed) character's sprites under the file name of "guy", DP would automatically add the extension ".brush", thus creating "Guy.brush".^{[citation needed]}

• The webcomic Unicorn Jelly was drawn entirely in version 2 of Deluxe Paint.

• All background graphics of Another World game were drawn with Dpaint.

• Deluxe Paint was used almost exclusively in the making of Amiga games, animation and demo-scene productions.

• The Junior Senior music video "Move Your Feet" by Shynola was done entirely in Deluxe paint.^{[citation needed]}

also, Lucas Arts used the PC version of DP for almost any of their adventure game... hmm...

Is there a plugin for photoshop that dithers gradients like pro motion

I just found out that Pixen was destroying my palletes the whole time I was using it. It always makes the colors lighter than I want them and changes the hues. Is there any other mac alternative that has a color table like pixen?

New freeware app Acorn with layers multiple views and other good stuff. I'm very, very, impressed by this mighty mini pixel application. (Mac Only)

http://flyingmeat.com/

MSPaint clone for Macs - Paintbrush - Free!

http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

About Paintbrush:
Paintbrush is a Cocoa-based paint program for Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft Paint and the now-defunct MacPaint. The project's ultimate goal is to recreate the basic functionality of Microsoft Paint, which has been noticeably absent from Mac OS X for years. Paintbrush can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF.

Paintbrush is not intended to replace Photoshop or other high-end image editors. Instead, it aims to fill the need for a basic, streamlined editor for those times when you just feel the need to doodle.

New in version 1.0:

• Holding shift while using shape tool results in perfect square/circle/lines - try it!
• Paintbrush now remembers previous image size
• Saves as PNG by default, instead of BMP
• New option to choose from preselected sizes
• Undo/redo works with cut and paste
• Updated icons for shape fill styles
• Requested: Keyboard shortcuts for zoom in/out/actual
• Added: Bomb tool animation (also responds to Shift key)

Download
Click here to download Paintbrush directly, or click here for a full list of current and older packages, including source code.

Installation
To install Paintbrush, open the disk image and drag the Paintbrush icon to the Applications folder. Eject and discard the disk image.

System Requirements
A PPC or Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Donate!
Paintbrush is, and will remain, completely free, with no nag screens.

Ha.. I just got done with an animation in GraphicsGale... You can save it as a .gal (graphicsgale format) or a .avi which are both hard and/or impossible to upload to sites like pixeljoint or deviantart right? You can also save it as a jpeg, bitmap, or png, but it saves it as a static image instead of an animation.... 

can anyone enlighten me? sorry, but i'm bit of a noob to this...

thanks man! Ill do what you said!

PNG is better, compression has very little to do with lossiness: PNG is lossless, BMP is lossless, JPEG is lossy. PNG is a reasonable size, BMP is the size of 14 elephants. 14 elephants are the last resort.

FREE O.O       MSPaint with layers!       Get It Now!!!

Hey people, have you had a look at ArtIcons Pro yet?

Edited by LizardXM - 06 January 2008 at 11:17am

Free Find http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enfeatures.html
PC users report, pleeez
Is it a viewer only or can it compile animated gifs?


Another free mac one
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/scribbles.html


Edited by jalonso - 07 January 2008 at 6:13pm

Hi all , i find this cool software for animated your sprites with bones, very useful for make cool animation style paper cut.

http://www.tahnokgames.com/Applications/Skeleton/applications_skeleton.htm

It's free !


Bye

I'm looking for a graphics editor that could do realtime tile preview.
So if I'm making a 32x32 tile it would show 9 of the same tile in a preview window so I can see how changing one pixel affects immediately.


[x] this is the one I'm editing

[x][x][x]
[x][x][x] this is what I want a real-time preview to show
[x][x][x]

I use Personal Paint on the Amiga for all my pixel work, although if I want to switch to animating, I'll use Deluxe Paint.

That's Deluxe Paint V(5), which was the final version on the Amiga, which supported 24bit images, and had a whole bunch of extra cool features over Deluxe Paint IV.

I can't recommend Personal Paint enough for pixel art though, and because it supports PNG, GIF, ILBM, BMP... you get the picture. It can load JPEGs, but doesn't save them, so retards won't accidently save their pixel art in a lossy format.

So hey, I made my own GIF animator! I'd like to consider myself pretty much done with it, especially since there are so many others out there... But I'm proud of the work I did. The Accurate Preview is actually accurate as far as I know, you can align frames better using the Accurate Preview mode, and it's specifically designed for using and reusing with spritesheets. So hey...give it a shot if you've got the time! The link might not work, but you can copy and paste it to your address bar if that's the case. Geocities doesn't like off-site linking, after all. http://www.geocities.com/christiankinesis/incomp/KinAnim.zip

Edited by DeProgrammer - 18 January 2008 at 5:46pm

I use microsoft paint.

Paintbrush.

Unfortunately Pixen has always been very buggy and unstable. I'm still running Tiger and I don't use it--though I'd prefer to--simply because I don't want to lose any more work due to frequent crashes. I wouldn't recommend downgrading just for Pixen.

Oh, and by the way, I use leopard and Pixen is working fine for me.

Maybe they've upgraded it recently to support leopard. Try downloading it again.

I stopped using it myself. When not using PS I use Acorn now.

Hi all (first post in this forum)

I've used artgem for a brief period. And found it very interesting.
Right now I've trashed Windows completely and using Linux as my main OS.
For this reason years ago I was looking for the old and beloved Deluxe Paint IIe I used on my Amiga. I found there was a linux conversion of dpaint IIe, called AOCP, but the code seems vanished in ye olde web :(

Nowadays I'm using GIMP for all the graphics I do.

Amyk13: That's true. You might prefer to use GIMP-GAP, since it has much easier to use animation, including onionskinning, path movement, and other advanced features. IMO if you're doing an animation of any complexity, it is a better choice, rather than the built-in animation support. If you need to make a GIF animation, you just run 'video->frames to image' when you're satisfied, and then save the resulting image as GIF

(GIMP-GAP is available from www.gimp.org. you can see currently "GIMP Animation Package 2.4.0 Released 2008-01-30" at the bottom of the page,)