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Question about paint programs for Macs

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Topic: Question about paint programs for Macs
Posted By: dm404
Subject: Question about paint programs for Macs
Date Posted: 05 July 2009 at 4:44pm
I noticed there's a lot of paint programs out there for pixeling.  However there seems to be very few of them that seem to have a halftone pattern palette for dithering.  In my search though, I couldn't find any of them that were on the Macintosh.

Does anyone know of any paint programs for the Mac that have this particular feature?



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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 05 July 2009 at 4:50pm
http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/ - Grafx2 .

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Posted By: dm404
Date Posted: 06 July 2009 at 5:28am
Thanks for pointing that one out to me.    Is that the only one for Macs though?


Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 06 July 2009 at 6:03am
As far as I can tell. Just about the only pixel-art-specific apps for Mac are Grafx2 and Pixen. I don't remember if Pixen has the feature you asked about, but it's been a dead project for years and it's horribly buggy. Expect regular crashes resulting in data loss. It wouldn't be worth using even if it did, is my point.

Side note: if you're using Leopard, Grafx2 will crash on launch. The bug's been reported, but in the meantime you'll have to download an older version.

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