Edit pixel assets and palettes

Step 1

Draw and revise assets

Use the pencil for direct pixel work, the eraser for transparent cleanup, the paint bucket for flat color regions, and shape tools for lines, rectangles, and contours. Brush-size menus let drawing tools work at small pixel scale or larger cleanup scale.

• B selects Pencil in the image editor.
• E selects Eraser.
• G selects Paint Bucket.
• L selects Line, R selects Rectangle, and U selects Contour.

Step 2

Select, move, crop, and soften

Use selection and move tools when you need to reposition part of an asset. Use crop when you need to focus the working area, and blur when an asset needs a softer edge or quick paint-over treatment.

1. Select an area of the canvas before moving or copying pixels.
2. Use crop controls for framing work in progress.
3. Use the blur size menu for controlled softening.

Step 3

Bring palettes into the workflow

Palette import helps keep asset colors consistent across tools. Use common palette formats when you are moving between pixel art utilities or sharing a color ramp with collaborators.

• GIMP .gpl palettes are supported.
• Adobe ASE and Aseprite palette data are supported.
• JASC .pal, Paint.NET .txt, and plain .hex lists are supported.