What program do you use?

[konidias]

- msPaint for most pixelation
- photoshop for editing photos and drawing artwork (not pixel art)
- animagic for animating, setting transparencies, saving as gif
- hypersnapDX for snapshots, and for saving in pretty much any image format with any settings

I'm siding with the msPaint people here. Photoshop is worse than msPaint for pixeling. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the "color" on msPaint, you just double click a color box and you can select any color of the rainbow. I can usually just use the small palette of colors that it provides and just modify all the colors to the ones I want. That way they are all right there on hand.

Photoshop takes longer for me to load, I have to set the canvas size, the line tool doesn't predraw the line for viewing, although I think the ink dropper is better since you can select any color on your screen, even outside of the program (at least I think you can).

If you don't pixel shade then you are retarded. Unless you're going for a non-pixelized look. Because using the airbrush thing isn't true pixeling. It's a lot easier to shade when you have something like the airbrush that you can apply different pressure to, in order to give it a dark to light effect, but still, no airbrushed sprite is going to look better than one that was totally pixelized.

[LegendaryAzreil]

Photo Impact 8

[Loriel]

Why does no one of you use the Gimp? It is very simple to use as the more adavanced features are hidden in dialogs that you do not need to have opened, yet it has all the power one could need for pixel graphics.

[azuretek23]

Originally posted by Loriel
Why does no one of you use the Gimp? It is very simple to use as the more adavanced features are hidden in dialogs that you do not need to have opened, yet it has all the power one could need for pixel graphics.

last time I used it, it crashed in the middle of a project and I lost everything... I was enraged and erased it from existence (er.. my PC)

[Deek2]

Originally posted by Loriel
Why does no one of you use the Gimp? It is very simple to use as the more adavanced features are hidden in dialogs that you do not need to have opened, yet it has all the power one could need for pixel graphics.

What a rediculous question. Maybe no one wants to use it. There's tons of other programs out there that are alot better and easier to use then that.

It is very simple to use as the more adavanced features are hidden in dialogs that you do not need to have opened

What an oxy*****. Most of the simple features I wanted to use I either had to dig through all of the toolbars and drop-down menus to get, or they didn't exist at all. You actually have to read the help file to understand some of this stuff.

[Loriel]

Originally posted by Deek2
What a rediculous question. Maybe no one wants to use it.

What a silly comment. Maybe I am asking for the reasons?

There's tons of other programs out there that are alot better and easier to use then that.

I seriously doubt that.
I have not yet seen an alternative for the Gimp.

What an oxy*****.

I would not simply call things I do not agree with oxy*****s.

Most of the simple features I wanted to use I either had to dig through all of the toolbars and drop-down menus to get, or they didn't exist at all.

I was under the impression we were mainly talking about these programs use for pixelling. And still, the features are finely organized into dialogs.

You actually have to read the help file to understand some of this stuff.

Oh my god. That, of course, is a reason not to use a program. I mean, if it has certain features that are so complex that they require documentation, of what use can the program itself be?

[konidias]

Originally posted by Loriel
Oh my god. That, of course, is a reason not to use a program. I mean, if it has certain features that are so complex that they require documentation, of what use can the program itself be?

Owned. Hahaha. Yeah they don't make readme files for nothing. It's not like they have help files and readme files because everyone but you is retarded and needs them.

[Muha_builder]

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