Pixel Art Software? Photoshop or something else?

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Hi,

I wanted to ask which software are you using for drawing pixel art? Do you use Photoshop or some special software?

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People will tell you you can use anything at all - Paint.NET, Gimp, Photoshop. And that’s true. You can draw anything you will ever need for pixel art in those programs.
If you want something a bit more specialized though, there are quite a few programs out there you can try.

The best one is probably Aseprite, but I know some people heavily dislike the interface. I don’t and I use it all the time. This one works especially well for animation.
Then there’s PyxelEdit. I also use this, because it has great functionality for tilemaps. But for animation it’s a bit crude.

GraphicsGale and Pixlr are also quite good.

That being said - if you can’t make a good sprite in Paint, you won’t with these programs. See them as software that strips out all of the functionality from Photoshop that you don’t need with Pixel Art.

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There is also this website:
http://www.piskelapp.com/

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Asesprite and Pyxeledit are both amazing. But if you have Photoshop you can use that, too. The guys who are making Crawl with Unity use Photoshop for their pixel art.

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