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No, seriously, Graphics Gale does EVERYTHING I could ever ask for.

It supports any fileformat I could wish for, custom hotkeys,
onionskinning, the easiest animation tool (with a realtime preview
window) ever created, and creating palettes is almost too easy, though
I am not very good at it.

Rightclick + drag is select, which helps with animation sketches,
simple rightclick is an eyedropper, and you can adjust all colours when
you're done with what you were doing. I don't use that feature, cause I
wouldn't get it right either way, but still it is there. What I do use
is the replace colour tool, select the colour you wanna replace a
secondary and just draw over it with the colour you want it to be, easy
as that, and great for contour for example, or the famous selout.

It's fast, starts up in an instant, and hasn't crashed on me once.
There is a trial period of thirty days, after that it's 14 Euros.

You COULD say it's a better paint, but even that would'nt do it justice
I think. So I'd say, give it a shot, make an animation in it, customize
some hotkeys, and you'll see that working with this baby is a breeze.

GG is THE tool for pixel art.

For other things it's GIMP all the way.

Edited by Maestro

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Maestro Seaman Joined: 27 June 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 31	Posted: 30 August 2005 at 6:40am
	No, seriously, Graphics Gale does EVERYTHING I could ever ask for. It supports any fileformat I could wish for, custom hotkeys, onionskinning, the easiest animation tool (with a realtime preview window) ever created, and creating palettes is almost too easy, though I am not very good at it. Rightclick + drag is select, which helps with animation sketches, simple rightclick is an eyedropper, and you can adjust all colours when you're done with what you were doing. I don't use that feature, cause I wouldn't get it right either way, but still it is there. What I do use is the replace colour tool, select the colour you wanna replace a secondary and just draw over it with the colour you want it to be, easy as that, and great for contour for example, or the famous selout. It's fast, starts up in an instant, and hasn't crashed on me once. There is a trial period of thirty days, after that it's 14 Euros. You COULD say it's a better paint, but even that would'nt do it justice I think. So I'd say, give it a shot, make an animation in it, customize some hotkeys, and you'll see that working with this baby is a breeze. GG is THE tool for pixel art. For other things it's GIMP all the way. Edited by Maestro
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Saboteur Commander Joined: 29 January 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 888	Posted: 03 September 2005 at 6:14pm
	GAH! I still don't get it. You're assuming I know how to make the plugin itself work. I don't. I'm a complete tool when it comes to anything resembling programming, and that's what it looks like needs to be done for gimp-gap to work. And I've tried looking for help. I don't get it, if you're still around, could you explain it to me?
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neota Commander Joined: 27 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 158	Posted: 04 September 2005 at 1:52pm
	.. you're on Windows, right? then you run the installer, and when it's finished, you restart Gimp and the commands are in the Video menu.
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Saboteur Commander Joined: 29 January 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 888	Posted: 04 September 2005 at 2:45pm
	ah, ok. Thanks :)
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space2 Midshipman Joined: 17 July 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 48	Posted: 06 September 2005 at 1:57am
	*Originally posted by neota* Also, the gimp's builtin animation facilities are miniscule compared to the Gimp-GAP plugin, like a peashooter compared to a rocket launcher. Multiple layers per frame, onionskinning, running filters on a range of frames (optionally with varying parameters), moving objects along a path.. Yes, I agree. GIMP is my favourite also, I use it to do all sorts of gfx. I really like also the dynamic shortcut feature: when the mouse is over a menu item, just press a shortcut key combination, and voili, your new shortcut is set (no need to dig in well hidden options/properties) Also, when using pixel art, I open/create a new image, usually set also a grid, zoom to ~10x, then View->New, zoom to 1x, view->and deselct selection, border, grid, guides, menu, statusbar, and voili, you have a nice preview window. Btw, One other very nice program was AutoDesk Animator... R.I.P. Oh, and one more thing, I do gfx for mobile games, and recently observed, that the laptop's LCD screen is much closer in quality (and tehnology) to the screen of mobile phones, so sometimes I use the a laptop to work on small gfx.
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teej Seaman Joined: 13 August 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Posted: 10 September 2005 at 1:40pm
	GRAPHICS GALE: i always use this for my pixel arts, unfortunately i only have the freeware version of it. GG's freeware version locked the GIF functionality. so there's now way you can use and\or produce gifs. well after finishing my work with GG i will import it to photofiltre to do GIFing for me. PROS = all the tools are perfect for pixel artists, keyboard shortcuts is manageable, processing of PNG is very good, animation is posible (even .avi), the functionality of layers is great. CONS = none, i dont have problems working with GG. except for the fact that i can't access the GIF functionality. (maybe ill buy this greats software later) PHOTOFILTRE (another nice freeware) : not really for pixel arts though. but is also as good a program as GIMP. i like it more than PAINT.net. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP : very impressive program!!! but i dont use it for pixelling. i rather use it when im going to create full colored large images. but overall, it's the most professional, most expensive also. MS PAINT : the first ever program i've used, (my first step to pixelling) i love it then but now it lacks some of the feature needed. (can't produce good GIF's, layers). but i still use this for some editing, still as useful i can say (always save your work as BMP when using ms paint). UNFREEZE : i use this for making animated GIF's. quite a small program and with small amount of feature. however it is very very useful for quick GIFing. PIXEL STUDIO : it also has the tools that GraphicsGale has, nice GUI, and the instant isometric tool rocks. though working in pixelling is somewhat different from a standard paint program but you'll get use to it in time. PAINT SHOP PRO : i haven't used it. though i hear a lot of good impressions about this software. (a photoshop rival? is it?) Edited by teej
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yobonoc Seaman Joined: 23 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Posted: 28 September 2005 at 8:39am
	*Originally posted by Belle* Graphics Gale owns all your souls. http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/ For some reason however, it will not post links for me. Damn it's eyes. hi sorry but, dyo no the english version of this site?
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flyboj Seaman Joined: 23 May 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1	Posted: 30 September 2005 at 8:01am
	*Originally posted by yobonoc* *Originally posted by Belle* Graphics Gale owns all your souls. http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/ For some reason however, it will not post links for me. Damn it's eyes. hi sorry but, dyo no the english version of this site? try switch to english in website (top right corner)
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PixelGoose Seaman Joined: 26 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Posted: 08 October 2005 at 11:42am
	I use a trio of programs to make my GIFS: MSPaint- Excellent program. Gets better when you know all the hacks to it. Started on MSPaint, live on it. Game Maker- gamemaker.nl I use this program to start my GIFs. I go frame by frame. Bad part is the GIFs don't repeat. MS GIF Animator- All I use this program for is to edit my GIFs, make them transparent, and repeat.
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ice9 Seaman Joined: 02 November 2005 Location: Italy Online Status: Offline Posts: 9	Posted: 02 November 2005 at 4:07am