...three years later... made many changes, some radical, some less radical but all for the better I think.

2008	2011

It may not be possible in the default so called "direct" mode but in the Hi-Res Bitmap mode (which the new version is using) it's no problem at all. Admittedly, the new version also includes a non-petscii character (the little smiley from ascii) but all other characters are standard petscii characters.

Updated opening post with link and changelog from 0.3 to 0.4.

Next planned feature is to allow individual foreground/background color per each character instead of a global background color. For that I will have to rewrite the whole thing to use bitmap mode though and images created with the current version will not be compatible with future versions (>0.4).

I spent a couple of hours on each of the past three days to write a simple tool for the C64 which can be used for the creation of tile based pixel art using the character set(s) of the C64 as tiles or in short, to create PETSCII art.

So here it is
PETSCII paint, release page<- has screenshots and links to "making of" ^^ (  direct link to v.0.4 / direct link to v.0.5  )

Now I just need to create something nice with it so I can post it here.

edit/update:
v.0.4: previously saved creations can now be overwritten and backspace key in filename entry works now

v.0.5: individual foreground/background color per character, all characters from both charsets available at the same time, faster save/load, character selector mode, new hardware (sprite) cursor (0.5 is actually a complete rewrite of the tool in C)

I think the edges of the paper make the whole thing look kind of jagged and indented. I drew the cut-out lines on the other side and used a design knife to cut out the shapes. Any suggestions on how to fix that issue?

Maybe draw the cutout lines on the same side which will be seen by the viewer, so that the edges will curve away from the viewer instead of towards him. Either use an eraser to remove the lines or always cut along their inside, so no lines end up on the pieces you use. It might also help to use colored paper to take the attention away from the edges.