Two weeks ago, i start my journey on pixel world. I find some good tools, a tutorial from CrateBoy (Thanks dude). And what came next you can figure out, me and two weeks of pixel art... But this article is not about me and some characters made with square. It is about you find the right tools. Here is a list of best tools. The god is pround about them...
1.http://www.aseprite.org/ "Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool." Not many mentions online of this software but it features a nice cozy interface to work with! OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
2.http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/ "Cross-platform RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing and photo retouching…" OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
3.https://code.google.com/p/grafx2/ "GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance." OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
4.http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ "MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters." OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
5.http://www.gimp.org/ "GNU Image Manipulation Program" OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
6.http://www.pencil-animation.org/ "A traditional 2D animation software" OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
7.http://pinta-project.com/ "Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET." OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
8.http://www.synfig.org/cms/
"Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create animation frame-by frame, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources. Synfig Studio is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X."
9.http://al.chemy.org/ "Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways." OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
10.https://krita.org/ ""Krita is a KDE program for sketching and painting, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters." OS: Windows, Linux"
11.http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ "mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos." Os: Windows, Linux
12.http://www.getpaint.net/index.html "Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows" OS: Windows
13.http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/ "The free version is all you need. Paid version is about $20 bucks or so." OS: Windows
14.http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/About.html "Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. OS: Mac"
15.http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/ "Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint." OS: Mac
16.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.spc.app.pixelarteditor "Powerful pixel-art editor with multitouch support." OS: Android
17.https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/love-app/id401800662?at=1010lpjS "Pixation is my attempt to make the best pixel editor for the iPhone." OS: iOS
18.http://piq.codeus.net/ "piq is a free online app for creating pixel art." OS: Windows, Mac, Linux (Browser based)
Thanks "cyberphenaeri" for some useful info. Take a look at them... THEGAMER90
