This is not really a new version but some new and useful functions have been added to the git repository.
I have uploaded a compiled version here: http://www.thethoughtradar.com/aseprite-latest.zip
New features of note include:
- An accurate palette quantize that extracts palette from an image for easy palette editing.
- Import from and export to a sprite sheet
- Mini editor so you can see your sprite at 1x zoom whilst working on it at a higher zoom.
- Bug fixes
Wow, excellent work! I hadn't heard of the program but this looks like the next best thing to Cosmigo Pro Motion, which unfortunately isn't free. Works very well for pixel art and I also love that the control scheme is so similar to Photoshop! Will definitely use aseprite from now on!
I couldn't quite figure out how to do tiled drawing very easily. I did enable it, set up a grid, showed it, but when I have one tile drawn I still needed to, sort of awkwardly, select it and manually copy it over. Am I doing something wrong or is this still on the to-do list? I think it should work like in Pro Motion probably where when you draw in tiled mode it automatically makes the changes on all tiles that are the same as the one you're working in. Also automatic mirroring for x and y would be awesome in case that isn't implemented yet.
Yeah, ASE also is my freeware favorite. And as far as I know, no free and more advanced pixel editor can handle tilemaps as nice as ProMotion does.
Just found a release candidate for 0.9 although I don't know if it differs from the version Calin posted:
http://www.aseprite.org/ase-0.9-win32.zip
Theres also a twitter account which tweets major updates to the source repository.
http://twitter.com/#!/aseprite