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Pixelorama for Mac

Pixel art editor.

Free
In English
Version 1.1.7
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 1.1.7

  • Importing GIF files is now possible without needing FFMPEG!
  • Holding Control + Shift and moving the mouse right or left now changes the brush size. This shortcut can be changed from the Preferences.
  • The shortcuts category in the Preferences now have search bars to filter by name, or by shortcut.
  • Added mouse motion shortcuts to quickly change the color hue, saturation, value and alpha. By default, these shortcuts are empty, but they can be changed from the Preferences.
  • Added a button in the palette panel that unlocks the palette grid, making the swatches automatically resize based on the available free space of the panel, instead of having a fixed width and height.
  • A single tool mode has been added as a preference that makes the right mouse button activate the same tool as the left mouse button, instead of being independent.
  • Selecting "Paste from clipboard" while having a Lospec Palette URI copied will now automatically download that palette.
  • Removing all backups is now possible from the Preferences, under the Reset category.
  • The default UI scale factor now depends on the monitor properties, instead of always being set to 1.0.
  • In the shortcut category of the Preferences, the Default shortcut profile is no longer selectable, and the Custom profile is now the default one. If you want to restore the default shortcuts, you can press the new "Reset" button.
  • The distance between panels in the interface has been increased from 8 pixels to 12, making it a bit easier to grab the split handler in order to resize the panels.
  • Palette swatches get selected on mouse button release and not press, making them more consistent with the rest of the buttons in the interface.
  • Scrolling on the palette panel is now smoother and works like the rest of the scrollable areas on the interface.
  • Fixed crash when drawing and there is no active palette.
  • Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when loading multiple projects at once. #1379
  • Fix crash when opening Pixelorama with a project which had a group layer saved as current layer. #1378
  • Fixed crash when adding a new palette when there is none.
  • Fixed crash when drag and dropping something that is not a palette swatch (such as a cel button) into a swatch.
  • Fixed crash when trying to import a zip file that is not an extension. #1375
  • The timeline now scrolls to the active cel when switching projects. #1377
  • Exporting videos should no longer skip the last frame.
  • Fixed subwindow dialogs being too big compared to the main window size, if the UI is scaled.
  • Fixed error code 1 when saving a backup, if the current session backup directory is removed while Pixelorama is running. Now, it always checks if the directory exists and re-creates it, if it is deleted.

Pixelorama for Mac

Free
In English
Version 1.1.7
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