Pixen 3.1b2
Bitmap graphics in style Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games.
Last update
3 Mar. 2010
Licence
Free
OS Support
Mac OS X
Downloads
Total: 968 | Last week: 0
Ranking
#171 in
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Publisher
Open Sword Group
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Pixen Publisher's Description
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it's Free!
Layers of detail
Layers allow you to take control of your image's composition and encapsulate its components for efficient editing. Keep shading separate from colors; keep hair separate from the rest of a character's head. And Pixen's the only pixel editor that'll let you do it.
Get animated
Pixen allows you to create animations just as easily as you would single images. It's just drag and drop, then you've got an animated GIF, a QuickTime movie, or even a sprite sheet on your hands.
A powerful palette
If you're working on a sprite for a cell phone game, you know what it's like to work with restricted palettes. Pixen understands your pain. Its palette features allow you to edit, reuse, share, quantize, and otherwise manipulate your palettes. And it supports Adobe's, Microsoft's, and Jasc's palette formats natively!
No more missing the forest for the trees
If you're working on tiles for a game or a background, you have to be sure that it looks good when it's repeated over and over again. Pixen's tile view allows you to check out your seams in realtime—without limiting your editing abilities in any way.
See the final cut
Pixen's extensive background tools let you see your image just as it will appear in-game: you can draw Ralph the Crusader over that rugged grass tile. Alternately, you can work on a traditional transparency indicator and have Pixen draw a different background when your mouse is outside the window to quickly get another perspective on your work.
Layers of detail
Layers allow you to take control of your image's composition and encapsulate its components for efficient editing. Keep shading separate from colors; keep hair separate from the rest of a character's head. And Pixen's the only pixel editor that'll let you do it.
Get animated
Pixen allows you to create animations just as easily as you would single images. It's just drag and drop, then you've got an animated GIF, a QuickTime movie, or even a sprite sheet on your hands.
A powerful palette
If you're working on a sprite for a cell phone game, you know what it's like to work with restricted palettes. Pixen understands your pain. Its palette features allow you to edit, reuse, share, quantize, and otherwise manipulate your palettes. And it supports Adobe's, Microsoft's, and Jasc's palette formats natively!
No more missing the forest for the trees
If you're working on tiles for a game or a background, you have to be sure that it looks good when it's repeated over and over again. Pixen's tile view allows you to check out your seams in realtime—without limiting your editing abilities in any way.
See the final cut
Pixen's extensive background tools let you see your image just as it will appear in-game: you can draw Ralph the Crusader over that rugged grass tile. Alternately, you can work on a traditional transparency indicator and have Pixen draw a different background when your mouse is outside the window to quickly get another perspective on your work.
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