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DESCRIPTION
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it's Free!

Partial List of Major Features (see this page for more detail)

  • Advanced custom backgrounds support
  • Color palette with "smart" swapping capabilities
  • Grid customization
  • Tiled editing mode
  • Alignment crosshair
  • Full alpha support
  • Advanced layer functionality
  • A plethora of tools
  • 100% Cocoa with a beautiful Aqua interface
  • A design geared towards modern pixel art
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.1b2: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later and Quicktime 7 or later.

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Developer:Open Sword Group
Downloads:24,474
  - Version d/l:1,437
Multimedia & Design:Image Editing
License:Free
Date:02 Sep 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Sep 4 2009

AVV3LENATO  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 ;-)  
(Version 3.1b2)

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Sep 2 2009

TRENTI  A great,great program,very helpful. Only thing: On Snow Leopard it can't save images as *.ico and *.jpg. Any hints for that?  
(Version 3.1b2)

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Sep 5 2009

KMB  I also upgraded to 3.1b2, and I cannot save my .pxi images as .jpg anymore. Has anyone found a solution to this yet?  
(Version 3.1b2)

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Aug 27 2009

AVV3LENATO  Do not work in Snow Leopard!!! Please HELP!!!  
(Version 3.1b)

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Sep 2 2009

AVV3LENATO  SOLUTION!!!

Version 3.1b2 is now compatible with Snow Leopard...

A BIG THX!

DL Link:

http://opensword.org/Unstable/Pixen/Pixen%203.1b2.zip  
(Version 3.1b)

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May 26 2008

TENKERASU  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  
(Version 3.1b)

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Feb 4 2009

MATTLECLAIR  Yeah! They should refund TWICE what you paid for their software. Maybe even triple!  
(Version 3.1b)

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Mar 8 2008

TOTEN MASKE  I was going to happily download Pixen, but it seems that their site has been infected with an HTML:Iframe worm according to the virus scanner at work (which I was going to download and burn the software to a disc for my Mac Pro). Can't seem to contact Open Sword about the issue with their site.  
(Version 3.1b)

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Nov 6 2007

AVV3LENATO  Solution:

Use 3.1b

Link:

http://opensword.org/Unstable/?p=./Pixen/  
(Version 3.0)

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Oct 31 2007

AVV3LENATO  Totally unusable with Leopard... BEWARE!  
(Version 3.0)

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Sep 17 2007
*****

STRAW000  Pixen is now very stable with the new releases. I use it for making my icon. Also with such details it will ensure that the big pictures is not spoilt.  
(Version 3.0)

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Nov 14 2006
****.

COCOUA  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  
(Version 3.0)

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Aug 24 2006

ARGLBORPS  Wow, crashing left and right on 10.4.7 on a Mini with Core Intel Duo.

Change settings >> crash

Change transparent background appearance >> crash

Change Button bar >> crash

Breathe >> crash

Hmmm... I'd not even call this a beta.  
(Version 3.0)

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