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Configuring GIMP for pixelart

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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 8:46pm


Topic: Configuring GIMP for pixelart
Posted By: Minstrel
Subject: Configuring GIMP for pixelart
Date Posted: 04 December 2009 at 10:21am
So, I wanted to switch from Graphics Gale to GIMP, because I'm very pro-GNU.

One of the first idea I came upon was to make keyboar shortcuts for cycling through the palette. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm grokking GIMP.

I try to assign keys to the Foreground Palette Colour Next and Previous and various others but it does not seem to work. When I assign keys to the "increase red", "decrease blue", "next palette" and so on everything works perfectly, only when I try to assign something to switching the colours within the palette does stuff go awry.

Does anybody know what causes this?


Replies:
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 05 December 2009 at 3:14pm
Hey Minstrel, cheers for making the switch! Have you considered http://grafx2.googlecode.com - GrafX2 instead of GIMP? It's designed specifically for pixel art and it's GPL.

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Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 10:44pm
I wrote that functionality. It requires a 'palette editor' dockable to be part of your gimp session (doubleclick on a palette in the 'Palettes' dockable). You're better off using the 'Swatch' variation though -- that looks first for an image colormap to cycle through and then for a palette if the colormap weren't available.

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absolutely.

Posted By: Minstrel
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 2:05am
Originally posted by Hatch

Hey Minstrel, cheers for making the switch! Have you considered http://grafx2.googlecode.com - GrafX2 instead of GIMP? It's designed specifically for pixel art and it's GPL.


I actually downloaded and starte playing with it, but it will take some time getting used to. :D

Yet, I am actually inclined to cross over fully to it and leave GIMP as my Photoshop alternative.


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