Paint programs

To draw your own sprites, animations, etc. for AGS you'll need a painting program. Windows comes with Paint, of course, but that isn't bristling with features and you may find things like layers, animation, filters, etc. would be useful. So here are some alternatives:

Professional level

• Photoshop (Commercial)
• Paintshop Pro (Commercial)
• GIMP (Free)

Pixel art and sprite oriented

• Graphics Gale (License?)
• Pro Motion (License?)
• Grafx2 (License?)

Other

• Paint.NET (License?)
• ImageForge (License?)
• Ultimate Paint (License?)
• Photo Filtre (License?)

• See also the AGS forum's Big list of paint programs