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Matt Rajca
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.
Partial List of Major Features:
Partial List of Major Features:
- Advanced custom backgrounds support
- Color palette with "smart" swapping capabilities
- Grid customization
- Tiled editing mode
- Alignment crosshair
- Full alpha support
What's New
Version 3.6:
- New: multiple selection support for animation frames:
- shift-click to select regions of frames
- command-click to select individual frames
- delete, duplicate, and change the duration of frames in bulk
- Layers are preserved when using "Create Animation from Image"
- Bug fixes
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.7 or later
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| Downloads:74,391 |
| Version Downloads:33 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Image Editing |
| License:Commercial |
| Date:16 Apr 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / OS X |
| Price: $9.99 |
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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.
Partial List of Major Features:
Partial List of Major Features:
- 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
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DonkeyKong reviewed on 16 Sep 2012
Very easy for pixel perfection.
Both essential graphics apps!
idyll reviewed on 10 Aug 2012
https://github.com/downloads/Pixen/Pixen/Pixen_3_5_3.zip
Thank you!
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Grug reviewed on 01 Jun 2012
For me the better mac Pixel editor.
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I'm posting it here since there's no entry for aseprite on MacUpdate. To Pixen developer(s), I don't mean to draw attention away from Pixen (which is getting better and better!), but it's good to have many choices.
http://aseprite.org/
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there's also grafx2, a multiplatform old-school pixel pusher.
https://code.google.com/p/grafx2/
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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.
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Teak42 reviewed on 17 Dec 2011
Here is the link to the open source, more stable, updated vision:
https://github.com/philippec/Pixen
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I can, however, use the pixen format for the animation, but that is no use since I can't use the animation for anything then.
Can pixen only save a maximum amount of frames in a GIF?
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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 ;-)
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Version 3.1b2 is now compatible with Snow Leopard...
A BIG THX!
DL Link:
http://opensword.org/Unstable/Pixen/Pixen%203.1b2.zip
-An unhappy customer, TenKarasu
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When I'm closing an unsaved document, without wanting to save, I get the following doaligue message:
"KABOOM. Could not delete backup file "/private/vat/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/PixenAutosave.pxi".
I had this problem in the previous (beta) version as well. I've tried to delete the preference file and I've also repaired permissions on my harddrive. Any ideas for a solution?
I love Pixen. ;)
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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?
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I just trashed the "French.lproj" folder.
Anyway, this one likes to crashhhhhhhh :)
I guess I have to dig; too many troubles.
The first gif I tried to open was empty, the second one had its RGB channels shifted by one px (beautiful effect though...)
how do i get started,
i can't open a jpg or gif,
ibook 700mhz 10.2.6
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hced rated on 16 Apr 2014
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Leonledragon rated on 15 Sep 2013
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Leonledragon rated on 01 Apr 2013
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hced rated on 27 Jan 2013
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Quiiick rated on 05 Sep 2012
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Thinkd369 rated on 31 Jul 2012
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Quiiick rated on 14 May 2012
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Tommy_Gun rated on 18 Mar 2012