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Linux Pixel Art Programs

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=2705
Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 8:38am


Topic: Linux Pixel Art Programs
Posted By: titch
Subject: Linux Pixel Art Programs
Date Posted: 02 August 2006 at 9:55pm
Let me tell you a tale of woe, of a british boy who liked to make games. He liked to make games so much that he started to learn how to make his own sprites from scratch. This transported him to the magical world of pixel art. Years passed and slowly he improved, but as fate would have it, life had other plans. He had to travel far far away to lands of Canada and was forced to abandon his beloved graphics gale and take up a new life under the protective bosum of Linux.
 
I've tried running Graphics Gale (and the partialy translated iDraw) under WINE, but they just lag too much and have this natty habit of crashing when I try and use the copy command. GIMP just doesn't cut it, it's like trying to do an elegent job of breaking an acorn with a sledgehammer. I would preffer something that comes as an RPM, as my build of Linux (Mandrake) seems actively resists compiling anything from scratch.


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Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 17 August 2006 at 6:29pm
See ice9's post in the 'software for pixeling' thread:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2&PN=2
I think MTPaint is what you're looking for (and it has this interesting feature where you can change drawing color in the middle of painting)

Though, recent improvements in the  2.3.x series GIMP have improved its pixeling capabilities:

 *clipboard brush like DeluxePaint
 *next/prev color in palette actions
 *colormap arrangement plug-in
 *palette editor follows the current palette

Which personally are a great help, though I've always found GIMP capable; all of the art in my gallery was made using it.

I've also used mandrake for several years, and I've compiled plenty of stuff under it, so I think that that problem just comes from the way you've set it up.


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