Pixelation
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cybernetic on February 02, 2011, 07:56:35 pm
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what software has totally improved your workflow and is something that you enjoy creating in?
ive been playing with grafx2, and am now trying paint.net. im trying to find a very stable, very fast, multi-threaded, ergonomic and not ugly ui and updated frequently. im just curious what software has brought out the inner artist in you and that you find is very fun at the same time?
p.s. sorry about the one line spamming i didn't know these rules at the time :-[
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This comes up all the time. Pro's and con's of pixel software.
Have you tried searching the forums here?
I just use Photoshop, it's awesome and horrible, for pixel art, at the same time.
Look at Graphics Gale and Pro Motion while you're busy testing software.
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This comes up all the time. Pro's and con's of pixel software.
Have you tried searching the forums here?
I just use Photoshop, it's awesome and horrible, for pixel art, at the same time.
Look at Graphics Gale and Pro Motion while you're busy testing software.
i didn't do a search. i looked at the recommended software (which always ends up in cosmigo promotion)
:edit: i just read threads like that, and see that promotion and gale are the most popular. i would buy promotion but, as ive bought 1000s of dollars in software, i know how the development world works. id say promotion is a dead product, basically, "we wont acknowledge that development has stopped as that would lead to loss of sales but we wont dont plan on developing it anymore either" which is why im afraid to purchase it. hate to say but 2 half years since a new release is basically software in stasis unless somebody has heard different then my mistake.
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I use Cosmigo Pro Motion, but sometimes I'll do edits or doodles in KolourPaint (Think MSPaint, but with hotkeys and more undo).
I tried using the Gimp once, it was probably the worst pixel editor I've ever used. Graphics Gale was probably the second worst. I can't really remember why these days, but both left me feeling very sour while trying to use them.
Grafx2 was really nice, I used that for awhile, if you can't afford Pro Motion for whatever reason, I'd definitely suggest using that. PM being "dead software" doesn't change the fact that it works really great, and has saved me probably entire days or maybe even weeks of time.
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i also own adobe ps7 elements. not sure if elements is good for pixel art. theres artrage too. dunno if artrage work for pixel editing though. and im trying the demo of pd pro4
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PM is NOT dead software, it is still in development, but the coder has not much time atm. What with life and all.
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Same, Photoshop for me although it is horrendously bloated for pixel art :D
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I use JASC Paint Shop Pro 5 (picked it up for £5 off eBay), gives you nice easy access to palettes, colour counting, layers but still pretty streamlined for pixelling.
Paint Shop Pro 9 is also pretty good (have that at work), but these days it's owned by somebody else and called PaintShop Photo Pro... Meh
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Check out my post "The Tile Wizard Software" in this forum category. Its a new project of mine for helping with pixeling terrain tiles. Its made with the Java programming language and should be cross-platform. There will be more projects for other areas of two-dimensional game pixel art in the near future.
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Seconding GraphicsGale. I use the Free Edition and it's certainly the best free program for pixel art that I've seen so far. Check it out.
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MS Paint as it is real simple and straightforward.
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MSPaint is not very good, especially if you are gonna try to do anything bigger and need proper palette management.
There are free options which are TONS better such as Grafx2 or Graphics Gale.
Seriously, do yourself a favour and stop using MSPaint, it is a sore excuse of a program. Learning a program that is geared towards pixelart, such as those I mentioned, or commercial stuff like Promotion, will help your workflow in the long run and you will be able to do better looking stuff in the same or less time than working in MSPaint.
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I'm took everyone's advice a couple weeks back and started using Cosmigo Promotion. Haven't looked back, even if it is a bear to learn.
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Graphics Gale works best for me.
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Graphicsgale is one of the best out there, I have it, however I only use charamaker1999. Charamaker1999 is the only program so far out there that when you right click, it extracts the color from the image you are hovering at, which eliminates soo much time from bouncing grabbing the eraser / color palette tool... also, has an animation function integrated.
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Graphicsgale is one of the best out there, I have it, however I only use charamaker1999. Charamaker1999 is the only program so far out there that when you right click, it extracts the color from the image you are hovering at, which eliminates soo much time from bouncing grabbing the eraser / color palette tool... also, has an animation function integrated.
But Graphics Gale does the exact same thing. :huh:
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Graphicsgale is one of the best out there, I have it, however I only use charamaker1999. Charamaker1999 is the only program so far out there that when you right click, it extracts the color from the image you are hovering at, which eliminates soo much time from bouncing grabbing the eraser / color palette tool... also, has an animation function integrated.
But Graphics Gale does the exact same thing. :huh:
What? wow... you're right. I still use Cm1999 though, cause it stills cut some amount of time from your hands since everything is right there, easy and simple to use. I'm going to make a tutorial this year hopefully, about how to use that program, I really want people to try it...
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I use Photoshop with "Painter's Wheel" plug-in (a must have)
You can download it for free here: http://www.lenwhite.com/
It even has a great bar called "SwatchBar" that helps you to make color blends.
(http://nerdchallenge.com/lenwhite/LenWhite.com/LenWhite.com/Entries/2010/11/14_Painters_Wheel_files/droppedImage.jpg)
PD: I'm curious about Cm1999. Where can I download it?
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Eh, with the new HUD Color Picker (http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/03/photsohop-cs5-new-hud-color-picker-and-a-neat-helper-app-that-auto-saves/), who needs that extra workspace clogger? I use the HUD picker constantly.
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Eh, with the new HUD Color Picker (http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/03/photsohop-cs5-new-hud-color-picker-and-a-neat-helper-app-that-auto-saves/), who needs that extra workspace clogger? I use the HUD picker constantly.
I like to see it open all the time :)
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i use pixen any other good programs for a mac?
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You're pretty much limited to Graphx2 and Allegro Sprite Editor on Mac for pixel editors, although I'm sure there are a few more obscure editors floating out there. It's been a couple of years since I checked.
Honestly, I think Vmware or Parallels are the best pixel editing programs on Mac.
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GrafX2 all the way :D
In fact, I first found the program, then started using it, and THEN I got interested in pixel art. You know, I like reading magazines starting at the last page :crazy:
Only recently (months) did I find out that there was a BRAND NEW!!! (at least for me :lol:) windows version.
I was still using the discontinued MS-DOS version. It's lovely, but having it around in a window instead of weird resolution full screen rly halpz.
Hey, what the fuck, this emoticon set is one smoking emoticon short of complete awesome.