Pixen

Pixen is a pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games.

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Pixen is a pixel art editor designed for working with lowresolution raster art, such as those 8bit sprites found in oldschool video games. With innovative features like a color palette system, patterns, and highzoom support, Pixen packs all the tools pixel artists need in an intuitive, Macnative interface. Pixen also makes creating framebyframe animations fun and easy.

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GIMP

GIMP is a free program for such photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Essentially it's the closest thing to Photoshop you can get for free.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku Xfce AmigaOS

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Layers support Batch image manipulation Photo effects Retouch photos Open PSD files Layer manipulation Keyframe animation Scripting support Color to Alpha Symmetry brush
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Paint.NET

Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Free Windows Windows S

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Layers support Lightweight Export to PDF Function Key Shortcuts Optimized for fast boot On premises software Layer manipulation Editing photos Convert Photo to Painting Export to PNG PNG Compression Alpha Channel Curve Manipulation Succession Planning Pathways
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FireAlpaca

FireAlpaca is the image editor that can be used readily and easily. We made it possible to provide the completely free download, in order for our products to be experienced by more users from all over the world.

Free Mac OS X Windows

Layers support Tablet support Layers Smooth lines
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Aseprite

Aseprite is a program by David Capello for creating animated sprites and pixel art.

Open Source Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

Layers support Live Preview
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RealWorld Paint

RealWorld Paint is an free portable image/photo/animation editor. It supports layers with styles and can import and export Photoshop, GIMP and Paint.net images with layers.

Free Windows

Portable Layers support Retouch photos

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