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Pixelorama for Mac

Pixel art editor.

Free
In English
Version 1.1.5
5.0
Based on 1 user rate

Pixelorama overview

Pixelorama is a powerful and accessible open-source and multi-platform pixel art multitool. Whether you want to create sprites, tiles, animations, or just express yourself in the language of pixel art, this software will realize your pixel-perfect dreams with a vast toolbox of features.

Features:
  • A variety of different tools to help you create, with the ability to dynamically map each one on the left and the right mouse buttons with a single click.
  • Animation support with a timeline composed of layers and frames, with onion skinning, frame tags and the ability to draw while the animation is playing.
  • Pixel perfect mode for perfect pixel lines.
  • Clipping masks.
  • Pre-made palettes as well as many palette importing options.
  • Multiple image manipulation effects.
  • Non-destructive and fully customizable layer effects, such as outline, gradient map, drop shadow and palettize.
  • A powerful drawing canvas with guides, a rectangular and an isometric grid, and tile mode for easier seamless pattern creation.
  • Autosave support, with data recovery in case of a software crash.
  • Comprehensive user interface with many customizability options.
  • Export to PNG and other image and video formats, as well as spritesheets, GIFs, animated PNGs etc.
  • Import spritesheets, multiple images as separate frames, as well as GIFs and videos.
  • Various rotation and scaling algorithms tailored for pixel art, such as cleanEdge, OmniScale and rotxel.
  • 3D layers that allow you to bring 3D shapes and models into your 2D canvas.
  • A command line interface for automated file exporting.
  • Custom user data for projects, layers, frames, frame tags and cels, allowing you to attach metadata for game development.
  • Various free community-made extensions, such as tools that automatically convert your 2D pixels into 3D voxels.
  • Fully open source with free updates, forever.
  • Multi-language localization support.

What’s new in version 1.1.5

Added
  • Project palettes have been implemented, with undo/redo support! #1335
  • Implemented loading Krita (.kra) files with animation support. Only projects using RGBA with 8-bit color depth are supported at the moment.
  • Loading animations from Photoshop (.psd) files is now possible.
  • Loading palettes from Aseprite (.ase/.aseprite) files is now possible.
  • Implemented loading Piskel (.piskel) files with animation support.
  • Added a zoom parameter to the offset shader. #1330
  • The currently selected frame & layer are now remembered inside .pxo files.
  • Added an option to transform content in Modify selection. #1309
  • Relative paths are now supported in the CLI. #1326
Changed
  • Bumped extensions API version to 7.
  • When clicking on the remove layer button, now all selected layers get removed. This is consistent with how frames get deleted, and is what users would expect.
  • During animation playback on frames of a tag, if the user changes to a frame of a different tag, then the frames of that tag are being played. #1311
  • Using the move tool on a tilemap layer while draw tiles mode is active now clears the selection, if there is any. #1340
  • Current frame & layer are used as default values when importing an image as a new frame, new layer or to replace a cel.
Fixed
  • The bucket tool's flood fill has been further optimized. #1306
  • Creating rectangular selections now snap to the grid correctly, if snapping is enabled. #1338
  • Pasted selections now get snapped to grid. #1340
  • Pasting a selection on a tilemap layer while draw tiles mode is active now updates the tileset. #1340
  • Backups no longer appear in the recent project list. #1341
  • The names of the projects are no longer being translated in tabs. #1334
  • Fixed the drop shadow dialog not having a selected option by default for the affect option button.

Pixelorama for Mac

Free
In English
Version 1.1.5
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