Features | cosmigo

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

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...).

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

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

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