With the right settings in place, it's useful for doing all the pixel work I need to do.
Off the top of my head, my NES graphics settings include:
- An NES palette as Swatches, ordered and labeled.
- 16 pixel grid with 2 subdivisions
- Pixel Grid turned on (displays at zoom of higher than 600% in CS4 and newer). I especially like Photoshop's pixel grid because it is visually non-distracting.
- All tools' anti-aliasing settings off. All scaling modes set to Nearest Neighbor.
- A series of custom keyboard shortcuts for common tasks, such as toggling grid visibility, H and V flips, rotates, snap to grid, etc.
Its Frame Animation feature is as functional as I need for preview animation, and it's nice to be able to preview animations on the fly while I'm working on the art.