SV: Pixel Editor

Hi,

I find the GIMP to be very usefull for both small and large stuff. I use it
for background and logo-works as well as for sprites and tiles.

http://www.gimp.org/

And hey...you can use it on Windows, Linux and Mac!

Best Regards
/John Eriksson

>
> Quick question all.  I currently, actively develop in both Macintosh
> and Windows operating systems.  I have finally found my favorite
> freeware for text editing for both (textwrangler on mac, pspad on
> windows), but my big question is, what are the best pixel editors for
> each system.  I have found Pixen2 for the mac, though I have not had
> much time to play around with it, but as of now I am just using Pain
> on windows.  I know my questions are very technical like some (youll
> get those when I settle down to write some code), but right now I am
> just getting all my ideas to form and the tools necessary to start the
> project.  So, favorite free pixel editors anyone?  I do have access to
> the full CS2 suite, but that is often, not overkill, but not always
> appropriate for what I want to do (if that makes sense).
>
> Thanks again all,
> Unteer
>
>

Re: Mac cursors broken

On 2006-Feb-28, at 15:29, Kamilche wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Kamilche wrote:
>>> I tried my app on the Mac today, and everything works fine (go me!)  
>>> except the cursors. Some of them are cut in half, some of them are  
>>> wrapping around funny. I'm compiling custom cursors in a variety of  
>>> sizes, but all multiples of 8x8. Is there a limitation on the Mac  
>>> platform regarding cursors, that I'm unaware of?
>> It would be useful to come up with a reproducible example of this so  
>> that if it is indeed broken, someone can figure out why and fix it.
>> -bob
>
> Here ya go. Run this under Mac and Windows.
>
> --Kamilche
>
> import pygame
>
>
> arrow = ( "xX                      ",
>           "X.X                     ",
>           "X..X                    ",
>           "X...X                   ",
>           "X....X                  ",
>           "X.....X                 ",
>           "X......X                ",
>           "X.......X               ",
>           "X........X              ",
>           "X.........X             ",
>           "X......XXXXX            ",

Re: Pixel Editor

Re: Pixel Editor

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:54:34AM -0800, Patrick Mullen wrote:
>    Hi, I also use gimp.  Here is a list of setting changes/tools to make it
>    nicer for pixel editing:
> 
>     * Set the new image to whatever format you are working with most of the
>    time.  I don't like working with a transparent background so much, because
>    it's harder to erase to transparent than to just press "x" to switch to my
>    transparent color and paint with that; but if I am working with 64x64 or
>    higher res than I use transparency instead
>     * Set the default grid in preferences to whatever sized tiles/sprites you
>    are working with, and I like dashed lines
>     * Under Image Windows, under Mouse Cursors, make sure to select "show
>    brush outline" and DEselect "show paint cursor - this way you will have a
>    nice little pixel box instead of a mouse cursor
>     * Check "show grid" in the View menu
>     * Also in the view menu, choose new view - that way you can set up a
>    window that shows a zoomed out view while you work zoomed in
>     * Use the pencil tool mostly
>     * And don't forget, if you want to draw a line, you have to click the
>    first point on the line; hold shift; and then click the second point. 
> 
>    Once all of that is set up, gimp is really nice for editing pixel images,
>    and it can scale up and do fancy things like filters and layers too, which
>    sometimes comes in handy!

I concur. I often use the Gimp for pixel art for games-- although I have 
always found the lack of keyboard-based palette navigation to be a 
weakness. This is hopefully going to be fixed in a future release, see: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130123

---
James Paige

Re: Pixel Editor

It's worth pointing out this tutorial:
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/
This series of lessons goes into a lot of detail about pixel-by-pixel 
design of graphics, starting with "the Almighty Grass Tile."

Kris

Re: Mac cursors broken

Thanks, this has been added to examples/ in cvs.

Cheers,

On 3/1/06, Kamilche <klachemin@...> wrote:
> Rene Dudfield wrote:
> > The cursors look ok on linux, X11.
> >
> > Kamilche:  Would you mind if I added this example to the pygame examples?
> >
>
> I don't mind, go ahead.
>

Re: Mac cursors broken

Rene Dudfield wrote:
> Thanks, this has been added to examples/ in cvs.
> 
How do you get there? I'd like to see it, but don't know how to access it.

Re: Mac cursors broken

You can see how to use pygame cvs here:  http://www.pygame.org/wiki/cvs

On 3/2/06, Kamilche <klachemin@...> wrote:
> Rene Dudfield wrote:
> > Thanks, this has been added to examples/ in cvs.
> >
> How do you get there? I'd like to see it, but don't know how to access it.
>
>

Re: Pixel Editor

On Thursday 02 March 2006 07:59, Kris Schnee wrote:
> It's worth pointing out this tutorial:
> http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/
> This series of lessons goes into a lot of detail about pixel-by-pixel
> design of graphics, starting with "the Almighty Grass Tile."

I've added a link to that tutorial to the pyweek rules page, next to the one 
other tute on isometric art.

    Richard

ps. http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html

Re: Pixel Editor

I just found this incredible list of resources:

  http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pixelart/

   Richard