Pixel art tools

lloydkirk1989 · Post by **lloydkirk1989** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 5:40 am

Though it would be nice to see what every one uses to draw their graphics. I just found out about [url=http:////www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/]Graphics Gale[/url] the other day and im rather happy with it...atleast in comparison with MSpaint. It seems its sole purpose is for pixel art.

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 12:13 pm

I just use MSPaint, and the calcs drawing tools sometimes. But i mostly just use plain old millimeter-grid paper.

Post by **benryves** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 12:28 pm

I use Adobe Photoshop's pencil tool and MS Paint.
For more general-purpose graphics stuff (where Paint won't quite cut it) Paint.NET (http://moab.eecs.wsu.edu/~cs423/423spring04/Team2/) is a great free tool.

necro · Post by **necro** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 1:50 pm

ms paint exclusively...I have be trying to get decent at GIMP to

Post by **BetaSword** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 3:05 pm

Pixello for Pocket PC. 800% zoom (or so), pixel grid, pallette loading, copy/paste... It's got the essentials, plus it's easy to control with the stylus. It's what I use for my projects.

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 4:30 pm

Uh, MS paint yeah!

Tho PhotoFiltre is okay, I just haven't gotten used to the controls yet.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 5:49 pm

mspaint - 12.5%
oncalc - 12.5%
graph paper - 25%
CalcGs - 50%

calcgs is THE thing for clac sprites. any size, monochrome or grayscale, even animated. and the best part, it has a built-in map maker that converts the maps into EXACTLY the for i was using. its a cool program.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 6:11 pm

TFG do you have a link to that CalcGs. I want to try it out.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 6:17 pm

yeah its on ticalc.org.its great.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 7:51 pm

Will this work with Xlib. Because a map editor would be awesome!

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Fri 05 Aug, 2005 8:25 pm

well

no not really

its a pc program that converts the map to hex. but you could store the maps and drawing thing in a program that you call from your basic program. then you wouldnt even need xlib (no offense to xlib btw)

axcho · Post by **axcho** » Wed 19 Oct, 2005 6:07 am

I use MSPaint. But I also want to get the word out about my new calculator graphics utility, Sprite Lab. It is meant for designing 8x8 sprites on your calculator. Please take a look at it.

lecks · Post by **lecks** » Wed 19 Oct, 2005 8:10 pm

i used to love my MSpaint until one day i tried to open it and it said: (it still says this every time i try to open it) "Paint has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
ever since i havent done any computer graphics except with art rage, but it can't export.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Thu 20 Oct, 2005 3:38 am

Wow, thats not good. I don't know what to do about that, except to recommend CalcGS or the new sprite lab (which is nice)

Post by **DarkAuron** » Fri 21 Oct, 2005 12:15 am

I use only mspaint for PC work and a custom-made editing program that I throw together in ti-basic when I feel the need to do on-calc.