PROBLEM SOLVED!! Picture design programs (FOR MAC)
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Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
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Printed Date: 10 June 2026 at 2:35am
Topic: PROBLEM SOLVED!! Picture design programs (FOR MAC)
Posted By: Jefe
Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED!! Picture design programs (FOR MAC)
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 5:37pm
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I'm lookin for a good program to make pixel images with.
I've been using a program called Pixen on my new MacBook but it crashes constantly which is extremely frustrating & makes completion of any image nearly impossible. I'm a begginer pixel artist and I grew up tinkering with MS paint, so I would like to find another program just about as simple as MS paint that is alot more reliable... Or if you know something about Pixen that I don't then a fix for the crashes would be nice too because Pixen is simple and nice to use (when It doesn't crash and lose all my work) Thanks for the help.. |
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 10:12pm
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Pixen will do that, I was beta testing it for a while and gave up. Go to apple.com and get Paintbrush(free) or Acorn( $40) (other options there but none look good to me, try some). Or the best deal is to buy a Bamboo Tablet for $99 cuz it brings Photoshop Elements (layers/animation). Gimp is free open-source too. ------------- |
Posted By: Jefe
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 10:16pm
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Thanks, I've been looking into Photoshop CS4 for Mac and the trial looks promising. I'll try out Paintbrush from apple though, when I was looking for something like that I came across (God forbid) Pixen.
ty for the word -An enthusiastic beginner |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 10:19pm
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Well I use CS4 for all my pixelart so if you can afford it then do use it, its the best. PS: CS3 +4 no longer have gif animation capabilities. CS or earlier (ImageReady) ------------- |
Posted By: Jefe
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 10:24pm
LOL at paying for it. 
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 10:27pm
Then LOL at your question in the first place 
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Posted By: Jefe
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 11:23pm
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!! one more thing!! ( I successfully installed photoshop CS4...)
I donno how to use CS4. hah.. Sooo to start a new document: I select pixels for the size, I dont understand what to do for resolution, what's easy/standard?? WTF is a color mode and how many bits should I use? 8? |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 12 May 2009 at 3:55pm
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http://www.gamedev.net/reference/art/features/pixelart1/page3.asp http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/photoshop.html more in the links section of the gallery and on google ------------- |