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dragonxp wrote:

I'm extremely hard pressed to find a single command that i use with great convenience in MSPAINT. Which is single shade transparency. I don't even think Pant.NET has that function which caused me to simply go with MSPaint for all my tasks. Doing PW without 1 bit-transparency is a pain in the ass. Layers, i do have Paint.net & Graphics Gale for these if i ever need them to put things together without merging pixels or whatnot. I cna do nearly everything i would need to do in pixel art in MSPaint, Rotate, Resize, pick a color tool.

The biggest setbacks as i can see are lack of true image transparency, no hotkeys for anything and the lack of simple rotation. [There is a trick i used to get around this, skew positive horizontally and vertically negative to rotate clockwise etc...(integers inputted should be half of desired degrees desired for rotation].

All the others take awhile to load up, heck if i need transparency i usually go and use GameMaker image editor for its utter simplicity.

Preferences are all about what you like.

Either way, i'm not a professional anyway and i don;t plan to be one so it suits me fair enough.

Author:	CrazyMLC [ Wed May 25, 2011 6:41 am ]
Post subject:	How to Photoshop!
Photoshop is good to get used to, especially if you want to go professional. However, I think most people prefer Windows Paint for its simplicity. (Including me) Speaking of which, I really should get Photoshop. And a tablet. Anyhow I think this topic is deserving of a new thread at this point. Moderators, if you please?

Author:	dragonxp [ Wed May 25, 2011 8:18 am ]
Post subject:	Re: How to Pixel: The Basics
I'm extremely hard pressed to find a single command that i use with great convenience in MSPAINT. Which is single shade transparency. I don't even think Pant.NET has that function which caused me to simply go with MSPaint for all my tasks. Doing PW without 1 bit-transparency is a pain in the ass. Layers, i do have Paint.net & Graphics Gale for these if i ever need them to put things together without merging pixels or whatnot. I cna do nearly everything i would need to do in pixel art in MSPaint, Rotate, Resize, pick a color tool. The biggest setbacks as i can see are lack of true image transparency, no hotkeys for anything and the lack of simple rotation. [There is a trick i used to get around this, skew positive horizontally and vertically negative to rotate clockwise etc...(integers inputted should be half of desired degrees desired for rotation]. All the others take awhile to load up, heck if i need transparency i usually go and use GameMaker image editor for its utter simplicity. Preferences are all about what you like. Either way, i'm not a professional anyway and i don;t plan to be one so it suits me fair enough.

Author:	Kettenkrad [ Wed May 25, 2011 10:06 am ]
Post subject:	Re: How to Pixel: The Basics
dragonxp wrote: I'm extremely hard pressed to find a single command that i use with great convenience in MSPAINT. Which is single shade transparency. I don't even think Pant.NET has that function which caused me to simply go with MSPaint for all my tasks. Doing PW without 1 bit-transparency is a pain in the ass. Layers, i do have Paint.net & Graphics Gale for these if i ever need them to put things together without merging pixels or whatnot. I cna do nearly everything i would need to do in pixel art in MSPaint, Rotate, Resize, pick a color tool. The biggest setbacks as i can see are lack of true image transparency, no hotkeys for anything and the lack of simple rotation. [There is a trick i used to get around this, skew positive horizontally and vertically negative to rotate clockwise etc...(integers inputted should be half of desired degrees desired for rotation]. All the others take awhile to load up, heck if i need transparency i usually go and use GameMaker image editor for its utter simplicity. Preferences are all about what you like. Either way, i'm not a professional anyway and i don;t plan to be one so it suits me fair enough. Ditto. Although I would like an eye-dropper shortcut -_-

Author:	Yoman987 [ Wed May 25, 2011 10:38 am ]
Post subject:	Re: How to Pixel: The Basics
Thoughts on Vector editors? Inkscape vs Illustrator?

Author:	CrazyMLC [ Wed May 25, 2011 11:19 am ]
Post subject:	Re: How to Pixel: The Basics
Vector art? WHAT HERESY! Anywho, Inkscape = GIMP, Illustrator = Photoshop. Same situation. Illustrator is the industry standard, just like Photoshop.

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Author:	matty406 [ Wed May 25, 2011 6:57 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: How to Pixel: The Basics
I use Serif DrawPlus. It's like the professional stuffs but incredibly easy.

Author:	Geti [ Thu May 26, 2011 1:35 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: How to Pixel: The Basics
dragonxp wrote: Doing PW without 1 bit-transparency is a pain in the ass. Just fyi alpha is a much better way to do transparency. .png can handle it too so that's a pretty damn easy way to handle images. With indexed .png you have the option to go full alpha channel or 1 bit as well. It's not like having access to 255 (or more) levels of alpha means you can't go all out. A split topic wouldn't hurt.

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