best pixel art program
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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.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14612
Printed Date: 09 June 2026 at 9:05am
Topic: best pixel art program
Posted By: ollantaytambo
Subject: best pixel art program
Date Posted: 27 June 2012 at 5:52pm
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i want to make pixel art but i cant because i dont have a good pixel art program please elp me tell me the pixel art program you use |
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Posted By: crozier
Date Posted: 27 June 2012 at 6:04pm
| "Graphics Gale" is nice. It supports animation+ transparency, has a neat rightclick color grabber, and is free. I also prefer GG's color selector more then paint.net and photoshop color creator. |
Posted By: ollantaytambo
Date Posted: 27 June 2012 at 6:21pm
| graphics gale is good but its very confusing i cant even figure out how to change the color, delete stuff ettccc |
Posted By: crozier
Date Posted: 28 June 2012 at 8:29am
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Well GG has a color slider. Imagin you are painting. You would up the cyan to make it more blue. Up the majenta/ yellow/ black specifically to your liking. I suggest taking an intro to art couse (if you are still in school) in order to learn color patterns and techniques for painting. This knowledge will help with pixels. As for erasing you have to click the eraser tool and click your target. It should remove pixels (only if you not on the background layer.) If you are on the BG layer select the color you use for transparency and draw over your mistakes.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 28 June 2012 at 3:40pm
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The best for you should is the one that allows you to pixel freely and not notice the program...try them all.
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Posted By: Mark_Ian
Date Posted: 01 October 2012 at 6:33pm
| grafx2 but an experienced artist could use mspaint and without you knowing the difference. |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 01 October 2012 at 7:06pm
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an experienced artist wouldn't waste time with a clunky program like mspaint. ultimately, yes, it's about the skill of the artist, but there's a reason pixel art pros use something like promotion over mspaint, there are more available features (easy palette control, animation support, tools specific to pixel art). like grafx2, for those who are too cheap to buy promotion ( http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15201 - now supports animation! ) |
Posted By: gnodab2
Date Posted: 17 October 2012 at 3:59am
| I use MS paint all the time. but the earlier Version MS Paint XP. You can download it, by searching in google. Its the simpliest programm you can use. and it got all features.. except the transperancy. for that i use Photoshop |
Posted By: Dajil
Date Posted: 26 October 2012 at 2:59pm
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If you guys haven't heard of it already... I just found this program called ASEPrite the other day. It's got an awesome pixel style interface that puts you in the mood for pixel art, and seems to have great tools and customizability as well.
The only thing is that I'm not sure about how useful the interface is for layers and animation as I haven't used them too much. It seems to be a little less accessible than other programs when it comes to layers, but they apparently take feedback and update the program often. http://www.aseprite.org/ - http://www.aseprite.org/ |
Posted By: monotov
Date Posted: 26 October 2012 at 9:32pm
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any application... as long as you use the pencil in 1px without AA. |
Posted By: Pookaball
Date Posted: 13 November 2012 at 8:43am
| I use Paint.Net for everything both lo- and hi- res, including Pixel Art. |
Posted By: paler123
Date Posted: 24 January 2013 at 2:51am
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No love for deluxe paint 2?? so simple so nice, no distractions, pixel to yer hearts content  |
Posted By: Peeter
Date Posted: 03 February 2013 at 1:25pm
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Photoshop is great, but you have to be really careful with some tools, as the default option for everything is auto anti-alias. Use pencil tool instead of brush tool, when using paint bucket, uncheck the "Anti-alias" checkbox and set tolerance to 0, etc. ------------- 
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Posted By: pixotica
Date Posted: 10 February 2013 at 11:41am
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Here is a great free paint program made for pixel art, as an old deluxepaint amiga user, this is amazing. Great Pallets, great magnifier, textures, tools, and a very good line tool.
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ - free mtPaint pixel isometric program |
Posted By: victorgrunn
Date Posted: 24 February 2013 at 4:01pm
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Since Graphicsgale was brought up in this thread, I was hoping someone could help me out with something.
I really have loved using it so far - just perfect for most of what I want to do. I was starting to get frustrated with the transparency bit, since it seemed like there was no way for me to save a file with a transparent background. Eventually I found out how to do this via batch conversion - still the only way I know how. However, I'm wondering if it's possible to both have a transparent background AND non-totally-opaque pixels for effects purposes? Oh, and before anyone mentions it - yes, I've been googling about this like mad. The answers with regards to transparency have been all over the place, with some people suggesting GG just plain doesn't support exporting transparencies. I stumbled on the batch conversion method by dumb luck. Any help would be appreciated. EDIT: Oh, and as an aside - Aseprite is definitely a close runner up. I tried that after giving up on GG temporarily and, while it's a bit odd to deal with interface-wise, I really enjoyed working with it. Plus it has support for both frames and layers as distinct entities, which is one thing that helped sell me on GG. I tried using GIMP, but having to treat layers as frames was kind of a pain in the ass. Also, a WIP so far with GG: 
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Posted By: nerevarine
Date Posted: 25 February 2013 at 6:38am
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I had the same problem with transparency and found solution here:
http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/faq.html |
Posted By: Etheric_Shock
Date Posted: 25 February 2013 at 8:04am
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I use ms paint. It's a great program (except for the newer versions being a pain with altered or removed features). I've been wanting to find an animation program also.
So, GG or Photoshop? I hear from videos that photoshop is also annoying to use. |
Posted By: victorgrunn
Date Posted: 25 February 2013 at 7:30pm
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Thanks for the reply, nerevarine. I didn't realize that the transparency issue was 'frame' related - for some reason I thought that only had to do with animation.
Etheric, I'm a complete amateur, but I'd suggest trying out GG. It has a free trial and it seems particularly geared towards pixel art, whereas what I hear about Photoshop is that it's a good tool - but less straightforward, since it's not really 'meant' for that. Just my personal experience so far in finding GG good, save for a few curveballs. |
Posted By: comicbookgolfish
Date Posted: 28 April 2013 at 10:43am
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simple.paint isnt super but its al i got. can make some stuff with it.
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Posted By: comicbookgolfish
Date Posted: 28 April 2013 at 10:46am
is it free? i got something wit a donation or something? 
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