Pixen also makes it easy to perform “palette swaps”, the replacement of each color in the original image with a corresponding new color. It is an incredible freedom and convenience. If the reddish hue of the character’s cape displeases the artist, he can easily change it to something black or something pink. In Pixen, however, with the Smart Palette enabled, one can simply double-click the offending color in the palette and change it to whatever one wishes. Other programs would force the user to painstakingly use the fill-bucket with the new color in every place the old color inhabited, which is tedious and error-prone. It is a common problem for all artists, but for pixel artists especially, to have finished a part of a work but to be dissatisfied with the color choices. And of course, Pixen saves the background configuration with the document so one can keep sane with thousands of sprites.Īnother unique feature of Pixen is the “smart” palette. Moving the mouse back in will change the background back and resume normal operation. Simply by moving one’s mouse outside the image, one can see how the sprite looks on a grass tile.
If one is drawing a sprite, for instance, one can specify an image of a grass tile to be used as the alternate background (and a plain checkered background to be used as the main one). One of these is used when the mouse is inside the image the other when the mouse is outside. This is exceedingly useful, but Open Sword Group takes the feature one step further: One has the option to choose two backgrounds. For information on programming a new kind of background, please talk to us. It’s also possible to include third-party background types.
Adding a new background type is as simple as dragging it into ~/Library/Application Support/Pixen/Backgrounds/Presets/.
The built-in backgrounds include slashed-lines, checkered-squares, flat-color, and custom-image. Pixen has a custom backgrounds configurator in which one can configure how the canvas looks where the image drawn on it is transparent. However, what differentiates Pixen from other graphics programs, besides the grace with which the aforementioned features were implemented, are the new features unique to Pixen.
PIXEN CHARACTER FULL
Pixen implements all of the usual graphics-program features: a variety of selection tools the useful shape tools the eye-dropper the pencil and eraser the ablity to read and write from many formats a full implementation of layers, including independent opacity controls, merging, and reordering and a variety of other features, including an auto-save to help recover from crashes.
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