The world's greatest program, with the world's greatest operational glitches.

I have great hopes for some promising future in this app, though, since there's some fresh activity in the project's github repository.

Anyone feeling emotional about this app's history, torpid development, contrasted by its great potentials and the fact that it's now moving forward again, should get involved by helping the developer reporting bugs and whatnot on github, really.

I'm holding my review until it's out of beta or stable enough to use prime time.

This version of Pixen is old, outdated and somewhat unstable. The original Pixen developers no longer update it. However, it has been released as open source and now lives on as an open source project on github.

Here is the link to the open source, more stable, updated vision:
https://github.com/philippec/Pixen

Solution:
Use 3.1b

Link:
http://opensword.org/Unstable/?p=./Pixen/

this is a great... toy

pixen looks like the personal project of a littler genius tha t knows very well whta a pixel artist need, but it still being in progress, its not a sustitute of photoshop (which have all the features of pixen and much more, of course) for professional workflow, but it´s very interesting for play with.

web icons and little square based pictures are now easy to do with pixen

very nice the reptile soft. (not seen in photoshop!)


thansk to the autor

I like the new features, but not the unexpected and seemingly unrelated crashes of this version on my eMac 1.0 Ghz, Mac OS X 10.3.9. I hope this will be fixed in a next release. Otherwise, I'm very happy with this software.

The last update make Pixen Snow Leopard compatible but remove the ability to move/copy/drag the cel from the upper film strip.
Now it is impossible to do even the simplest operation... as drag a cel back and forward.

I found three more bugs... Just for your information: Hi CPU usage when idle, “Export to image sequence…” not working anymore (ex. BMP export) and “Save as Gif” export only one layer of a layered animation sequence (it's an old bug; you have to manually merge all layers and then export)

Hope this will help you guys ;-)

Okay, this is REALLY bad: I had just figured out how to do my very own .gif animation in Pixen, and I created a character blinking. I fiddled with the sizes, the length, and what-have-you on the frames, and I saved it, closed it, thought I was done. I uploaded it onto deviantART. I opened it again to change the size to make it my avatar for that website, and it not only kept closing on me, I couldn't touch anything I tried to work on, I couldn't resave it, because it would close, and then on something like the third time I reopened it, it completely deleted my .gifs. ALL OF THEM. I had like ten! You're lucky I had them backed up! I reopened them, AGAIN, and it just kept closing on me. What the hell. I have barely used this product, I mean, just for messing around making little tiny gifs that are way under 100 kbs, and it hates me. I deleted it because the program itself was taking up too much space on my HD. Thanks a LOT, guys. You seriously owe me one.
-An unhappy customer, TenKarasu

Totally unusable with Leopard... BEWARE!

Seems really good!
I planned to use it for pixel font design but the app hang on launch :
"Pixen[6919] Unknown class PXToolMatrix in Interface Builder file", Console said.

Any idea?