What programs do you use for Pixel Art?
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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: 23 February 2026 at 6:14pm
Topic: What programs do you use for Pixel Art?
Posted By: Teapot[ISO]
Subject: What programs do you use for Pixel Art?
Date Posted: 03 October 2014 at 11:22am
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I use a program called Paint.net. You can get it at getpaint.net.
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Posted By: 4red
Date Posted: 03 October 2014 at 1:45pm
Grafx2,
Cosmigo pro motion,
Paintshop pro 8.
In my cellphone; Pixels touch
If it had to be one; Cosmigo Pro motion.
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Posted By: StoneStephenT
Date Posted: 03 October 2014 at 10:53pm
Used to use Paint Shop Pro.
Use GIMP now.
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Posted By: Ozcr
Date Posted: 04 October 2014 at 12:49am
Posted By: jtfjtfjtf
Date Posted: 04 October 2014 at 1:30am
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Windows XP Paint and I do some things in photoshop.
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Posted By: torguen
Date Posted: 09 October 2014 at 2:09pm
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I also used paint.net until discovered gale graphics, I set the hot keys to my liking and so access is much faster than paint.net.
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Posted By: Eggy
Date Posted: 13 October 2014 at 10:09am
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I normally use either Paint.net or Photoshop, but I've also been messing around with other programs such as Graphics Gale, Grafx2 and the good ol' Paint XP.
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Posted By: DragonDePlatino
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 2:29pm
ASEprite all the way!
It's like GraphicsGale, except not impenetrably complicated for those used to MS Paint. It's got your layers, your animation and your indexed palettes. That's all you want, and all you'll ever need.
Just keep in mind that if you don't want to pay for the program, older versions are free!
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Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 3:39pm
^ and if you're capable of compiling it yourself, the latest https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite - development version is also free. Pretty easy to do on Linux.
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absolutely.
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Posted By: douglasg14b
Date Posted: 18 October 2014 at 1:36pm
I'm astonished that so few people have heard of mtPaint.
It's absolutely amazing. It's ridiculously feature dense. You can even write C programs to generate/covert stuff for you from it's API.
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ - mtPaint
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Posted By: Finlal
Date Posted: 26 October 2014 at 12:46pm
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Usually Photoshop but sometimes it's MS paint (on laptop).
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Posted By: showtime
Date Posted: 27 October 2014 at 9:18pm
I gave mtPaint a shot because of Douglas' post, and holy hell is it not intuitive!
GraphicsGale is pretty good for my purposes.
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