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 Post subject: Good free pixel art software?
PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:55 pm 



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Can anyone recommend a good free software package for making pixel art? I'm interested in something that would be good for both sprites and map tiles.

For example, I downloaded Graphics Gale and I like it for the most part, but it doesn't seem to be suitable for tiled backgrounds because it can't show a single image tiled so you can make sure it repeats well.

It would be nice if it could assemble multiple tiles into a map, but I am OK with this being a separate tool. Oh, and it should be able to show several images in series as an animation.

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:36 am 


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tile studio is pretty good but you can't do really big stuff with it.

http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:38 pm 


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Possibly not ideal for pixel art but another superb free art package is the Gimp....

http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/
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What fog said, try out The Gimp. Useful not just for pixel art but lots of other things, picture manipulation, changing file formats etc.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:06 am 


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Personal Paint 7 is good for pixel art purposes. It's free, and you can do animation with it, too. It's for the Amiga, but you can easily run it under UAE or whatever.


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Just so you know, they not only provide the program to make games, but they provide good resources to find stuff you're looking for.
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