What program should I use for pixel art?
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Topic: What program should I use for pixel art?
Posted By: Broojo02
Subject: What program should I use for pixel art?
Date Posted: 24 March 2009 at 1:22pm
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At the moment I use MSPaint but it appears that the pros don't use this program so much. Could you guys suggest any decent (and hopefully free) programs designed for pixel art for me? I'm a beginner at pixel art so Paint is fine for the moment. |
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Posted By: Evilagram
Date Posted: 24 March 2009 at 1:29pm
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Just stick with paint. It's what most of us use anyway. That or GraphicsGale. |
Posted By: Broojo02
Date Posted: 24 March 2009 at 1:42pm
| Ok cool, I've heard of graphics gale, good for quickly making animated gifs but you have to pay for that. |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 24 March 2009 at 2:23pm
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Use unFreeze to animate gifs you made with paint.
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Posted By: mappower
Date Posted: 25 March 2009 at 1:56pm
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I recommend GraphicsGale. It's almost as easy as Paint to use and it has hotkeys and you can undo more. That's why I'm using it.. And it's FREE!.
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 25 March 2009 at 3:06pm
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I use MTpaint and its awesome. Google it.
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Posted By: Peach
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 3:55pm
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some other free programs can be: grafx2 and gimp (which has some animation extensions) but the latter is quite complex for a beginner |
Posted By: Zero_
Date Posted: 05 April 2009 at 5:10pm
| I actually work with Photoshop (but that´s because I use it almost everyday in college) but as Lollige said MTpaint is one of the best programs that I saw... |
Posted By: smk
Date Posted: 07 April 2009 at 5:16am
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Paint.NET Layers and unlimited history (ctrl+Z) Free: http://getpaint.net - getpaint.net (Requires .NET Framework, free http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/f/60fc5854-3cb8-4892-b6db-bd4f42510f28/dotnetfx35.exe - download .) |