Pyxel Edit pixel art editor

[Danik]

Update:

This summer (2013) I have been working full time on this editor, and I have just released a much updated version.
It's still a beta but a lot more solid and full featured than the previous version.

Some of the new features:

• New docked UI
• Animation support
• JSON tilemap export
• GIF animation export
• Improved performance for large canvases

I decided to start charging for it and it currently costs $8 in beta, which will be raised as it gets more mature. (the old version is also available and will remain free)
You can find more info at http://pyxeledit.com

If you liked the first version check it out!

A video demoing the animation feature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKxyDsSwvI

The new interface:



Original message:


I'm developing a pixel art editor called Pyxel Edit, and it's just now in public beta.
It has some handy features inspired by Pro Motion and Pixothello for making tilesets.

You can get it here: http://pyxeledit.com/

Here are some videos showing its features:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYowgVn5_8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DstSI1KCTS0

Hopefully it will be useful to some of you.
I'd love to hear what you think, and if you have any suggestions.

[Facet]

It looks great; user friendly tiling stuff is very welcome but I want to call it 'pie-zel/pikes-zel' are phonetic variations like 'pxl', 'piksel' etc. taken? 

[Danik]

Thanks.
Yes, most pixel variations were taken. Never thought of "pie-zel" though, but I've already settled with pyxel, bought the domain etc. 

[rikfuzz]

Looks excellent!  Looking forwards to testing it out.   

[Cyangmou]

The problem which I had with pixothello is that it didn't work right with a graphics tablet. Have you coded anything for that?

[Seiseki]

Wow, this looks great!

[Hideon]

I like it so much.
Looking that topic and the previous one, I just have an idea for it that maybe would be interesting:
Implement other "grid types" for different tiles. There could be an isometric grid, for example... Or perhaps hexagonal grid to make hexatiles.
I don't know if it's too complicated to do.

[rikfuzz]

Had a quick play at lunch. Exceptionally cool! 

Be nice if I could get the brush size keys in there [=smaller and ]=larger, use them in photoshop a lot! 

[Seiseki]

Tried it and it's fantastic!

The way you can resize brushes in photoshop by holding alt + right click, and dragging left and right is a real time saver and would be an awesome addition.
Oh and being able to dock the tool bars and windows would be great.
What I miss most though is the selection tool, to move stuff around or rotate/mirror, which is another time saver.

[rikfuzz]

The way you can resize brushes in photoshop by holding alt shift and dragging left and right is a real time saver and would be an awesome addition.

You can?! I just get a colour sampler in my version (CS3).   Does sound pretty intuitive though.