Hi,

 I'm currently writing a new graphics package primarily designed for pixel art. It will be free for anyone to use. What I would like is suggestions for tools/options to include to make pixelling easy.

Planned Featues:
@ Supported formats: PNG, BMP, GIF, JPG, and PPA (my own format)
@ Layers (only saved in my own format)
@ Transparancy (in formats which allow)
@ Zoom (Quick zoom controlled by mouse wheel)
@ Pen
@ Fill
@ Dither Calculator

My Dither Calculator will be a tool where you put your two colours, and how far apart they are, and it will try to work out how many and which colours would look best at dithering between the two.

If you have an idea and feel like sharing, please send me any suggestions by PM on PixelJoint, or post a reply to this topic.

 Thanks,
  Mark

Added to the ToDo list. Thanks

Well some dithering like the older computers like the black and white pattern dithering. Also a SAVE a Palette unlike paint which never saves your colors.

What language are you gonna use?

I wish you the best, nobody really liked my palette generator.

 

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw

So when will this thing be up for trial?
If you really want to make it pixel art specific you are going to have to have some sort of animation function.

@Pixel_Outlaw: Once you get to a certain level outside programs for generating colours become a hinderance.

Will it work on mac? cause i rarely have acess to a windows and i
would like to try this when its ready...

Edited by Filax_666

When can we see the project? I want screens!!!!!

i wood like it if you coud switch the color by using the mouse wheel.

I'm afraid this program hasn't got very far. Work has become very busy, and my spare time has been spent decorating my house.

Don't despair, I will produce something, I just don't know when


Edited by pmprog

add a control click eyedropper and a wheelclick pan control

Those are very usefuls addition to any art programs imo


Looks good so far

it might be a cool idea to have something that will allow add ons, like a module that will alow you to put walking-anim-skelly's in the lowest layer, that will be automatically removed if the file is exported to .gif

and EVERY software neads a tutorial for itself =)

Well i tested each format and most of them come out as expected. The jpg conversion isn't that great (compared with other gfx programs) but then jpgs never are :P.

The pencil tool only draws when the pencil is moved and this is a problem for pixel artists.

I couldn't figure out how to zoom (if thats what you meant by drawing on zoomed images).

Haven't tried loading yet

Great (small) filesize. Thats always a plus.

Good job so far and good luck with the project

Edited by Akira

heh. oh yeah, mouse wheel :P.
zoom fuction is nice though when you zoom in alot or load images that are too big for the window, the scroll bars and stuff appear outside another set of scroll bars (hope that made sense, i could do a screenshot if you need it) which is a bit of a pain.

how does the framework save gifs? are they automatically indexed or what?

for now though loading and saving works fine, just when you get to a more finalized version jpg compression and gif transparency/indexing would be nice.

How about an auto pallet?

Creates a pallet with the colors you've used as far.

Money Transfer? in a graphics package?

Just so you all know, I'm thinking of ditching this project. I'm pretty happy with Paint Shop Pro 5

Sorry

Well i for one am dissapointed.

Good luck (you'll probably need it with the code I sent you ), and we (or at least I) look forward to what you make out of it...

Good luck random, i will have to vacate to a pc one day to use it.

yeah the original developer knows about that... now i just hope that these guys will get to work

Blink,

 Sorry I didn't have the last code of the version I released (fk knows what I did with it), but the way I did it was to draw on the unzoomed version, then refresh the screen, rather than drawing on both.

 If you have any questions or get stuck, please email me (you have my email address), and I'll answer as best as I can remember (which ain't a whole lot lately )