Im new to this so being brief is my best way to a quick answer...
Ive been fishing around for a "pixel" program for hours now with no sucess...
Does anyone know of the program used in the trilby's or indeed any program used to create the old style DOS picture effect.
Any help will be much appreciated
I use NeoPaint for drawing backgrounds and other stuff. It is a great program that can do nice pixel art and can make graphics similar to the DOS style you are looking for. It is not free, but you can download a trial version from
http://www.neosoftware.com/npw.html
I used the trial version for awhile then actually bought the program. I think it is similar to PC Paintbrush that came out years ago.
Good Luck!!
Shawn
ANY image editor would work for pixel art. Since I use photoshop for my photo editing as well as webdesign, it's my tool of choice. Even though it's total overkill for pixelart, why use something else for something it can do?
Paint Shop Pro would work, MS Paint would work, Paint.net would work, Graphics Gale (right?) would work, as well as neopaint.
It really doesn't matter. It just takes some time and practice :)
Photoshop isn't overkill. It's total pwnage.
I also use Photoshop, for all my image editing. I like to use multiple layers in editing my pixel art to experiment with different ideas.
wow, i'm totally surprised nobody has mentioned Deluxe Paint 2 yet :D
personally i do everything in Paintshop Pro and sometimes play around in mspaint.
I'm surprised that no one mentioned this (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=5644.0) yet. :P
Ah yes the pixelate feature...I really should learn how to use photoshop...curse my impatience
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure the first Trilby was drawn in MS Paint, and the backgrounds were also done in Paint, but they were worked with Paintshop to add lighting effects and stuff. Or so my sources say.
And I'm also pretty sure that 7DAS and Notes were done the same way. 'Cause if you look REALLY carefully, you'll notice how simplistic the drawings really are.
And pixel art indeed can be done with any program that provides a zoom bigger than 1x.
(my 2 shells)
Off topic, I myself was wondering if a program exists that is exactly like paint, but the entire pallete is supplied. Does such a Graal exist? Simplicity of MS Paint + entire pallete?
(my 2 bullet question)
(I'm lame, I know)
Nothing wrong with drawing in paint. If anything, its irritating hidden palette forces you to reuse colours you've used before, for the sheer reason that getting new ones is too much work.
Of course what you could do is take a few screenshots of the MS Paint palette, with the hue selector in a few different places so you'd get different hues in the saturation window, and then paste these (three or so) images into the bottom of the picture you're working on, and then just use the colour dropper.