Comments on: Pixel art software

By: Dan Monceaux

Dan Monceaux — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:26:35 +0000

hey daniel, nice post and happy to haev found your blog! I’m a pixel artist too, and the tool I prefer is called IcoFX… it’s freeware and you can download it at http://www.icofx.ro . I make merchandise out of some of my pixel designs, and generally export my .ico files as .png before importing them into Flash and converting them to vectors. I hope you enjoy my work!

By: Reozaki

Reozaki — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:36:46 +0000

Wow just as Lar I had no idea that the tumbnail existed, thanks!

By: mrlollige

mrlollige — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:17:21 +0000

That is strange! I have gimp 2.2 on my computer, and even when I don’t zoom exactly 100% more I get the most pixelly view as possible!

By: Dez

Dez — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:08:32 +0000

Gimp? I ve got that one on my desktop, in this version, it interpolates upon zooming. In other word, I cannot work -_-”

I am using Fireworks (I am still using that from Macromedia era), somehow I think it is really ideal to do this. The only limitation i’ve got is my poor skill. SIgh…

By: MrLollige

MrLollige — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:36:08 +0000

Hehe, at least now you do :D

By: Larwick

Larwick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:27:25 +0000

Wtf man i never knew there was a thumbnail zoom feature in mspaint. Dude! That would’ve helped me so much over the years. Owel, thanks!

By: CC

CC — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:55:32 +0000

I’ve tried graphics gale and grafx2, graphics gale is pretty confusing. I got used to grafx2 just as you entioned xD; For the most part I enjoy MSpaint. btw, I have windows XP and for me I go to view>zoom> show thumbnail, never seen miniature, though.

By: MrLollige

MrLollige — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:09:55 +0000

Changed :)

By: Ion

Ion — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:39:39 +0000

Grafx2 is great! Esp. because it’s available for all major platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOSX)

It does most of what MSPaint does, and also a fair chunk of what ProMotion does (in a more approachable way.)

I describe it in more detail here:
http://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/wiki/ohrrpgce/index.php/Grafx2

GIMP is available for: Linux, Windows, MacOSX

MTpaint of course, I like that (esp. that you can change paint color during painting), it runs on “Also Windows” rather than “Also Linux” — important because the dominant development platform is Linux, so it is the more reliable version. Just like GIMP.

By: MrLollige

MrLollige — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:28:07 +0000

oops, I totally forgot Gimp (I planned on putting it in), and the only ever moment I heard of grafx2 was in the Interview with Ilkke, but I forgot about it right away. As it is a quite pixel related thing ill add it! And maybe animation shop and paint shop will be added later on too ;)