PixelShop
Printed From: Pixel Joint
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=17471
Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 6:19pm
Topic: PixelShop
Posted By: flux
Subject: PixelShop
Date Posted: 09 November 2013 at 9:48am
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PixelShop Blue Edition Over the last four years I have developed a program called PixelShop, which is aimed at pixel artists. It was optimized to create pixel art, pixel animation, sprite sheets and tile sheets. PixelShop offers many features that streamline pixel art creation. Once you are used to it, it is very easy to use. The program was originally developed for a game called Fantasy Online, but I have decided to release the unrestricted version to the public now. The program has been used by thousands of players (I'm not exaggerating here) and the fantasy online art staff to create content for the game. You can download it here: http://blackflux.com - http://blackflux.com/ http://blackflux.com/software/ps/other/pixelshop.jpg">  If you have any questions please post on http://blackflux.com/forum/ - http://blackflux.com/forum/ as I might not be able to check this thread regularly. Feature List Hope you enjoy it! flux |
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 November 2013 at 1:32pm
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OSX too...sweet. I'll download and test.
Please note that both the Windows and OSX versions do give a warning about it being trustworthy. You should try to resolve that. ------------- |
Posted By: flux
Date Posted: 09 November 2013 at 3:06pm
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[QUOTE=jalonso]Please note that both the Windows and OSX versions do give a warning about it being trustworthy. You should try to resolve that.[/QUOTE What program exactly does give you this warning? The browser? I've scanned both PixelShop.exe and settings.exe with virustotal.com. Here are the results: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0034438efeee830abbe82007d3886e218801cc79c39e9650adb9ef6d8faf8554/analysis/ https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/fb6a06d4800a33427dee1fc42a8fbaff2be34b149d6288e4658e58c7feafb19e/analysis/1384037915/ settings.exe shows a false positive with Jiangmin, but I haven't found a way to report that (no idea where their website is). All the other antivirus seems to be reporting correctly. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 November 2013 at 3:16pm
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I already downloaded and will test so that when others ask (they are always asking for apps here, especially OSX pixel apps) I can answer with some knowledge. It was my browser that brought that warning up and I totally ignored it. I only mentioned because some people freak on stuff like that and was suggesting a fix for all not me.
Chrome Browser on PC and FF on the Mac. ------------- |
Posted By: flux
Date Posted: 12 November 2013 at 2:59am
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Posted By: flux
Date Posted: 17 December 2013 at 12:42am
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Bump (since otherwise was on page 2 now).
Has anyone tried this and can give some feedback? |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 17 December 2013 at 6:35am
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I totally forgot to post before. Your software is very nice and simple and runs problem free.
There are however some things that could be improved to be better suited to all pixel artists. The biggest problem I found for myself and the way I pixel is that I can't have 2 windows of the art on the board with individual zoom controls so I can pixel on one that's zoomed and view the other at 1X for example. This is so important that it almost kills everything else for me. Maybe its just my set ways with Photoshop but I found you have a lot of color windows all over the place with all sorts of controls over all of them yet none seemed efficient :/ Perhaps there is a way to connect all these color related panels into one that you can bounce around and edit and control colors with less clicking and moving around??? (nothing wrong here just mentioning what seems comfortable to me). Perhaps its not worth it for you but another program killer for me as a pen user is that I found no way to use it and many controls are mouse dependent. ------------- |
Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 18 December 2013 at 1:57pm
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Krita and MyPaint solve the palette/color problem effectively by having decorationless windows that pop up at pointer location, and after you click+release the button (or a minimum time passes) the window dismisses itself. The window is initially triggered via configurable keyboard shortcut. (MyPaint further improves on that concept via grouping types of color selector together, and hitting the shortcut more than once cycles through the different selectors in that group) Making your various windows dockable, in the style of GIMP or Photoshop, is also an option (if somewhat less user-friendly than the 'popup' option). I'm pleased to report PixelShop does in fact run OK under WINE; since I only use Linux this is my only way of trying PixelShop. There is one notable problem: every few seconds, the entire window content, including all submenus, moves one pixel down and to the right. This effect is also immediately triggered whenever I hover over one of the subwindows. This is not necessarily directly related to your program, it may be a bug in WINE. Other comments: * Having zoom require a mousewheel is aggravating. I only have a tablet. (also, it violates my expectations, which are that I should be able to zoom with - and + keys of the keypad, or at least - and = keys that follow the numrow. Every other graphics app supports this) * As well as shift+dragging to pan the canvas, it would be nice to have the standard middle-click-and-drag for panning. Again, this makes things nicer for tablet users, and the majority of mice have a middle button too. When I only had a mouse, I used middle button a lot for this purpose. * The 'test animation on a range of backgrounds' is pretty good. I'd like to see an option for the character to walk across the display, as this would more accurately show what the animation looks like in real use. * Customizable shortcuts (I notice you call them 'shortkeys') would be helpful. Not everyone has a QWERTY keyboard layout. (I have a http://colemak.com - Colemak keyboard layout, personally, and prefer to group all my keyboard shortcuts near the right side of the keyboard so that they are close to my tablet.) * The 'brush' and 'alpha', 'fill' and 'fill alpha' tools appear to differ only in how they display the image. It's not clear to me why this is, and when I should use one rather than the other. * The background displayed by the 'Animation' window and the *alpha tools.. How do I change this? (edit: I see. It's in the Tool Options dialog, which is stuffed with a range of loosely-related options for the program in general) * Ctrl+LClick/RClick to darken/lighten colors is neat * The 'Grade' Tool is interesting, but I struggle to predict what it will do. I don't understand what controls the length of the gradient, how much area it will fill, or how far through the gradient it will go. * In general, it seems to suffer a lot from the classic problem of commercial software -- 'design by committee'. It consists of a range of features which could be much better integrated to allow the user to work efficiently, and the implementation of those features is quirky rather than matching existing standards (such as middleclick to pan, Ctrl+Click eyedrops the drawing color, - and + to zoom, ..) ------------- absolutely. |