Overview

Unleash your creativity with Pixelorama, a powerful and accessible open-source 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. Available on Windows, Linux, macOS and the Web! Unleash your creativity with Pixelorama, a powerful and accessible open-source pixel art multitool. The project has 9K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

Wide Range of Tools: Customize your workflow by dynamically mapping tools to the left and right mouse buttons, making your creation process faster and more intuitive.
Advanced Animation Support: Create animations with a timeline composed of layers and frames, including features like onion skinning, audio synchronization, frame tags, and the ability to draw while the animation is playing.
Pixel Art Focused: Perfect pixel lines, indexed mode, and rotation and scaling algorithms tailored specifically to pixel art, like cleanEdge, OmniScale, and rotxel.
Seamless Tilemap Creation: Use Pixelorama’s tilemap layers to create rectangular, isometric or hexagonal tiles for your games.
Powerful Layer System: Utilize clipping masks and non-destructive visual effects like outlines, gradient maps, drop shadows, and more. Perfect for experimenting with styles and compositions, as changes can be applied without altering your original artwork.
Palette Management: Bring color into your canvas by choosing from pre-made palettes, importing your own, or creating custom ones inside the software to suit your unique style.
Visual Effects: Multiple image effects for fine-tuning your artwork.
Advanced Canvas Options: Utilize guides, rectangular and isometric grids, and tile mode to ensure seamless and precise pattern creation.
Automatic Backups: Stay safe with auto-saved backups to recover your work in case of unexpected software crashes.
Highly Customizable UI: Tailor the interface to your needs for maximum efficiency and a smooth workflow.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

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Features

Integrations & APIs

Plugin / Extension System

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