good programs to make pixel art

[ninjakiller2223]

so yeah... Hey guys i'm new to the pixel art stuff and i was wondering if you know some good programs to make pixel art i'm using pixen right now but i don't think it's very good.... so ... let me know

changed your thread title from "hey guys" to an excerpt from your post - Atnas

[tsej]

You should read the FAQ!
http://wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=3467.0

[doimus]

Cosmigo ProMotion has been recently updated. Now it has proper layers (photoshop style), pixel-perfect drawing and with already present awesome tile mapping engine and palette editor, it's the best pixelart app you can have. If you run on Windows that is.

If you don't, there's the close runner-up Aseprite which is multiplatform and has great animation features. Not so great (read: not existing) support for palette editing, dithering or tiles. But it is in quite active development.

I think that's the only two pixelart oriented drawing apps that have been updated recently. Others like Graphics Gale and Grafx2 are in a development limbo of sorts...

[Kasumi]

Aseprite does have support for palette editing. Quite good support, in fact. Guess I'll mention you can dither with a custom brush in it as well:

You can set the brush to a hotkey for easy access and save it across sessions, it doesn't need to be created every time.
Edit: It also works with the fill tool:

But it's true it doesn't have any kind of direct support for it.