General
- Selections tool set including multi layer/multi frame copy & paste
- Full featured transformations (free, rotate, scale, skew) with multi layer/frame selection
- Simple color index and alpha transparency
- Layer system including layer groupd, effects, blend modes, transparency, locking
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Load animations from and save to single image files
- Cropping and scaling
- Configure mouse wheel for different functions
- Dark user interface option
- Pixel size definition to have sizes like 2x1
Special Game Development Tools
- Support for pattern drawing to create endless textures
- Sprite Sheet support (reading/writing), PNG/BMP
- Tile map editor with auto optimization, mirroring, flexible export, in place tile modification
- RGB channel depth can be selected from 222 to 888
- Multi layer export (layer per file, automatic flattening)
- Color constraints engine to automatically check graphics against legit hardware limitations (C64, Nintendo DS...).
Painting
- Round, rectangular or custom brush shapes
- Pixel perfect drawing to remove smeared pixels in real time
- Transparent brushes
- Animated brushes (brush is animation itself)
- Anti aliasing
- Automatic realtime halftone patterns
- Over 25 different paint modes such as translucent, brighten, darken, shade, soften, color cycle, halftone, tint...
- Create your own paint modes with a built in formula editor
- Lots of different drawing tools with many options optimized for pixel based drawing
- Isometric line snapping
- Filled shapes using texture, solid colors or gradients with transition patterns
- Pen pressure support for brush size, gradient, halftone...
- Free customable gradients
- AnimPainting to flip frames while drawing
General Drawing Aids
- Selections based on pixels or colors (stencil) including quick selection
- Grid to snap the brush to while drawing
- Draw symmetric images with a special symmetry drawing options for every tool
- Scaleable zoom grid to create any type of grid including isometric, octagon or box grids
- User defined brush handle position
- Full screen editing
- Brush container to save and organize brushes, objects and animations for reuse
- Individual drawing grids
- Display of position coordinates and dimensions
- Lock mouse movement (x/y) for precise positioning
Brush Tools
- Single color, text or custom brushes selected from an image part
- Brush transformations
- Text brushes using all installed Windows fonts and self defined bitmap fonts
- Support for animated brushes (select an animation as brush)
- Rotate (90°, 180°, free)
- Mirror
- Resize (free or proportional stretching)
- Outline with color
- Shrink
- Use a brush for pattern filling
- Load/save (anim)brushes
- Minimize a brush or animated brush to their optimal width and height
Animation
- Use animated brushes (brush is an animation itself)
- Different delay values for each frame or FPS delay
- Key frame definition
- Several playback modes (pingpong, loop, play...)
- Scaled animation playback
- Speed modification during playback
- Light table/onion skinning to ease animating
- Color cycling while drawing
- Insert/delete/append/copy/revert ranges of frames
- Append animations
Color Tools
- Define colors in RGB/RYB/HSB/HSL/LCh-color sheme
- Web color value editing
- Import 24bit graphics with automatic color reduction
- Floating color palette for fast selection and modification
- Create smooth color ramps
- Use gradients to fill objects with different color shades (linear, contour, radial...)
- Create images containing palette based color cycling
- Sort palette by hue, saturation, brightness or color
- Copy to ranges of colors from one table to another
- Color reduction with optimized or custom color palettes including dithering for best image quality
- Automatically remove unused or duplicate palette colors
- Import color palettes from image files
- Ordered and random dithering
- Use local (frame dependend) or global color palettes
- load/save palette data
- modify contrast, saturation and brightness of a range of palette colors
Supported File Types
- Compuserver GIF89a (.gif)
- Deluxe Paint image (.lbm)
- Dr.Halo CUT (*.cut)
- Amiga Interchange File Format (.iff) / with Anim5 support
- Windows Bitmap (.bmp)
- JPEG (.jpg)
- PC Paintbrush (.pcx)
- Portable Network Graphics (.png)
- Tagged Image (.tga)
- Autodesk Flic (.fli/flc)
- Windows AVI (.avi)
- Sprites (.spr)
- Windows Icon (.ico)
- Windows animated Cursors (.ani)
- Gameboy Cel File (.cel)