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Pixel Art
Kingdaro:
Does paint have transparency support? Last I recall, it didn't, and that's pretty bad if you're making pixel art for something other than just display.
I would recommend GIMP, but the people here seem to treat GIMP like a spawn of satan and Paint.NET a godsend.
--- Quote from: Conan on December 07, 2013, 11:57:41 PM ---ms paint
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paint.net is good. gimp is probably too much for pixel art
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GIMP is multipurpose, and is perfectly fine for pixel art among other things. It's also cross-platform.
Plastiware:
--- Quote from: Kingdaro on December 08, 2013, 12:39:51 AM ---Does paint have transparency support? Last I recall, it didn't, and that's pretty bad if you're making pixel art for something other than just display.
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What purposes exactly? I can't think of anything I've actually ever needed transparency for besides Blockland prints.
Char:
maybe if you needed to do lighting effect that would be easier by putting a transparent color layer over everything or something
like in some kind of alarm situation where everything is lit red
or if you were making something that is underwater
that's somewhat specific but transparency can be used for a lot of things
Kingdaro:
--- Quote from: Plastiware on December 08, 2013, 12:56:50 AM ---What purposes exactly? I can't think of anything I've actually ever needed transparency for besides Blockland prints.
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As in, video games. If your sprites have a massive box of white space around them, that's kind of an issue.
Char:
--- Quote from: Kingdaro on December 08, 2013, 01:11:15 AM ---As in, video games. If your sprites have a massive box of white space around them, that's kind of an issue.
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you could get around this by having one color set to always be transparent but it would have to be one you'd never use ever