Tile set for Alisha's Adventure
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Something is doing superfluous gamma correction most likely.
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Paint? Yuck!
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I love MS Paint for doing sprite work. The XP version was much better, though.
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There's no need to act that way if someone wants to use simple software that you don't like.Espozo wrote:Paint? Yuck!
I agree that XP paint was better for the purpose, just because the UI is more concise and out of the way, and some tools don't apply AA without a clear option to disable them.
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GraphicsGale completely dethrones any version of Paint though, especially when it comes to managing the palette.
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That's one thing I like about GIMP. It has the brush tool, which applies AA, and the pencil tool, which doesn't apply AA. The eraser tool has a "Hard edge" checkbox for whether to apply AA or not, as do the elliptical and lasso selection tools. And its UI pretty much stays out of my way once I turn on single-window mode. Furthermore, GIMP has "rearrange color map" which is convenient.mikejmoffitt wrote:I agree that XP paint was better for [pixel art], just because the UI is more concise and out of the way, and some tools don't apply AA without a clear option to disable them.
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Besides the AA, my biggest complaints against the new MS Paint are the selection tool (you can't make a new selection near an old one because there's some sort of proximity threshold now, and it's hard as fuck to get the selection to start at the pixel you want) and the shapes (which are now treated as objects until you click away ).mikejmoffitt wrote:I agree that XP paint was better for the purpose, just because the UI is more concise and out of the way, and some tools don't apply AA without a clear option to disable them.
MS Paint is far from being the definitive sprite creation tool, mainly because of the lack of layering and any sort of palette management, so you may need to use other tools. My own conversion tools can recognize palettes drawn in the image itself, so the lack of palette management isn't really a problem for me.Sik wrote:GraphicsGale completely dethrones any version of Paint though, especially when it comes to managing the palette.
GIMP is cool and all, but I find it too bloated for simple pixel art. I feel exactly the same about Photoshop.tepples wrote:That's one thing I like about GIMP.
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I didn't mean to hurt any feelings...mikejmoffitt wrote:There's no need to act that way if someone wants to use simple software that you don't like.
Yup.tepples wrote:That's one thing I like about GIMP. It has the brush tool, which applies AA, and the pencil tool, which doesn't apply AA. The eraser tool has a "Hard edge" checkbox for whether to apply AA or not, as do the elliptical and lasso selection tools. And its UI pretty much stays out of my way once I turn on single-window mode. Furthermore, GIMP has "rearrange color map" which is convenient.
That's why you hide a lot of features, although I see what you mean.tokumaru wrote:GIMP is cool and all, but I find it too bloated for simple pixel art.
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Neither GIMP nor Photoshop were designed for pixelart but for editing of way more complex images, so it's no wonder that doing pixelart with them is much harder than one feels it should be.
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Gimp is quite a bit more barebones than Photoshop though.
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Here is the palette for the first BG layer.
BG palettes 0 and 1 are reserved for BG3.
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BG palette 2:
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(0,10,6)
rgb(0,21,8)
rgb(8,28,9)
rgb(21,31,15)
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(6,0,3)
rgb(13,1,4)
rgb(20,5,5)
rgb(26,12,5)
rgb(31,20,5)
rgb(0,3,6)
rgb(0,7,11)
rgb(3,13,18)
rgb(8,21,24)
rgb(17,28,30)
BG palette 3:
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(21,0,0)
rgb(27,6,0)
rgb(31,13,0)
rgb(31,21,0)
rgb(31,27,6)
rgb(18,8,6)
rgb(25,16,12)
rgb(29,23,18)
rgb(30,27,23)
rgb(31,31,27)
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I find GIMP is quite good for pixel art, and use it frequently for this. I found this tutorial helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PONe4IIYSnQpSik wrote:Neither GIMP nor Photoshop were designed for pixelart but for editing of way more complex images, so it's no wonder that doing pixelart with them is much harder than one feels it should be.
The only ways I find it lacking are that palettes are not very convenient (though they can still be done), and it's not very good at all for animation.
For animated pixel art I use Aseprite, which I think is not as good an image editor as GIMP but is quite good for animation.
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I haven't used GIMP in a while, but I remember testing animations with it. IIRC, each animation frame is a layer, and you can specify delays and other parameters using the layer's name. Then you can just go to Filters -> Animation -> Playback to see the animation. Do you need more than that?
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Yes GIMP has very minimal support for animated GIFs, and there is a playback tool. It is very rudimentary, and awkward to use. A real animation tool is light years beyond this, really.
Aseprite lets you switch frames with a keypress, use several layers each animated separately (GIMP is using layers in lieu of real frames, preventing this possibility), easily change speeds and partial loops, onion skin to trace over previous frames, etc. etc.
There's really no comparison. GIMP's animated GIF support is a just barely working hack. Aseprite is designed around the task of animation.
Aseprite lets you switch frames with a keypress, use several layers each animated separately (GIMP is using layers in lieu of real frames, preventing this possibility), easily change speeds and partial loops, onion skin to trace over previous frames, etc. etc.
There's really no comparison. GIMP's animated GIF support is a just barely working hack. Aseprite is designed around the task of animation.
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There's no arguing that, but for simple sprite work I think it's enough.rainwarrior wrote:GIMP's animated GIF support is a just barely working hack.