Hello folks,
AFAICS, the sticky post "All the Paint Programs You'll Ever Need" has been updated in 2011 the last time, so it has reached compulsory school age by now.
Despite the brash claim at the start, "This is a list of all the
working (highlight of the author) links to paint programs", several are not, amongst others:
- MyPaint (http://mypaint.intilinux.com/)
- Color Schemer (http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html)
- Wally (http://www.telefragged.com/wally/)
- Creatoon (http://www.creatoon.com/download.php)
- Anim8or (http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html)
- SSH's Walkcycle generator (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=26501.0
-> the links there don't work) - KToon (http://ktoon.toonka.com/)
- World Creator (http://www.inet2inet.com/InetSoftware/World-Creator/WorldCreator-info.asp - no longer free)
- ImageForge (http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html - no download links here any longer)
- Allegro Sprite Editor (http://ase.sourceforge.net/)
- VGAPaint 386 (http://www.bttr-software.de/products/vp386/)
Synfig is mis-labelled. This is mainly an animation program, not a vector program.
Time for some modernization, perhaps? :-\
I tried to contact ProgZmax to add these a few weeks ago, but nothing. So im going to post it here:
8 direction 2d Pixel Character animation kit ($2):
https://cubenom.itch.io/character-animation-kit
Pixel-Me - 2D Pixel Portrait Generator - Sierra style portrait generator($14.99EUR:
https://tassilo.itch.io/pixelme
DPixel - Free Pizelizer:
https://marcoc2.itch.io/dpixel
PixaTool - Advanced Pixelizer ($9.95)
https://kronbits.itch.io/pixatool
Thought the community could make good use of these tools.
Here's a list of tools I can highly recommend - nothing new or groundbreaking, but all very solid pieces of software.
Pixelart / Animation
GraphicsGale
https://graphicsgale.com/us/
free
Aseprite
https://www.aseprite.org/
14,99 eur or compile yourself
ProMotion
https://www.cosmigo.com/
39,99 eur
Grafx2
https://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2
free
Raster
Gimp
https://www.gimp.org/
free
paint.net
https://www.getpaint.net/
free
Vector
Inkscape
https://inkscape.org/
free
Photopea.com : This is a 99%-faithful clone of Photoshop (literally a clone : it's Photoshop only with a different name. I couldn't believe my eyes when I found it), but it's online and free (www.photopea.com). It's a life-saver when you can't open .psd files because you're not on your usual work computer or when you don't have the permissions to install stuff on the machine. Just open Chrome or Firefox, go to photopea.com, and here you go.
Krita (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=55901.0) can do a lot for your rastergfx needs.