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[spinachthief]

I just played around with mtpaint and animpixels and my initial impression is that they are just shy of awful.  I want frame advance with arrow keys and a color RGB editor always present in the window.  At least the frame control with the arrow keys must be available some where, right?

[Bones]

GraphicsGale?

[Atnas]

A WILD GALEBOT APPEARS

[spinachthief]

Ok yeah, this is better.  Frame stepping and other functions can be assigned to keys. The color palette can't be edited without opening the clunky mspaint-style window despite the RGB values being in clear view and editable.  Free version outputs animation in bmps or one tiled bmp.  A comfortable distance from awful, thanks wild galebot.

[i wanna be the guy]

The color palette can't be edited without opening the clunky mspaint-style window despite the RGB values being in clear view and editable.

mind being a bit more specific, or giving a screenshot there because i'm almost 100% certain you're doing something wrong

or I just read that wrong

[Atnas]

You're doing it the hard way. The RGB and HSV sliders control the color you have selected in the palette when in indexed mode. Switch to indexed mode with All Frames -> Color Depth. The selected color will be outlined in a negative and bolded border. <3

YOU CAUGHT A WILD GALEBOT!

[spinachthief]

I just figured out how to do it.  You can drag the current foreground/background color and drop it on any color palette square after editing RGB values.  This is the quicker alternative to double-clicking on the color to open that MSpaint-style window.  You can also blend across a number of palette squares using the gradation function in the palette pull-down.  This is pretty nice, the only thing missing is being able to select areas on the palette for copy-paste between palettes.

[Wander]

hrmmmmm I'm using photoshop 7 for my art, but honestly, i hate it.  gale looks like it's pretty not bad.  Can you guys point to anything that's been done with that?  I mean, Photoshop has good street cred all around, but a good pixel editor - it is not. (in my opinion)

[Jad]

Aand if you reduce colour depth to 256 or lower, each pallette entry will stay constant both in the pallette AND on the canvas.

If you're working on higher colour depth, you can also just blot out colours on the canvas and right click-colour pick, one of my favourite things about it.

[Atnas]

hrmmmmm I'm using photoshop 7 for my art, but honestly, i hate it.  gale looks like it's pretty not bad.  Can you guys point to anything that's been done with that?  I mean, Photoshop has good street cred all around, but a good pixel editor - it is not. (in my opinion)

pretty much around half of pixel artists I know use GG. I use Gale! Jad up there uses Gale. And Jad is a really great pixel artist!

The other half use Promotion. The remainders use Photoshop. A negligible amount use emulated programs, various programs like Tiled, and I don't really know or want to know anyone who uses paint!

So the street cred for GG is very respectable.