Pixen Woes

[Gnome]

I have been using pixen a lot lately and love it. Its easy and powerful. But It is also one of the buggiest pieces of software I have ever seen.

List of the thing Pixens does to me daily.
1. Crashes
2. Every time I open it, the image is a bit lighter. Eventually, colors get to white.
3. Sometimes random bits of color will appear on screen and it isn't until its too late that I notice.
4. Sometimes it fills by itself and I can't undo it.
5. Sometimes I delete a layer and it will come back in some random data. Like a half layer or something. Worst of all, it seems to think that this half layer the the entire image, and only saves that.

Can anyone help me on this?

[Silverwind]

By Phileas Fogg Gnome, that's horribly impractical. Save yourself a "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" late one night when you're working on a particularly awesome sprite by using a different app. I think there's a few decent freeware ones nowadays. Check some of these out: http://en.softonic.com/s/drawing-application:mac

I played around with Acorn a few years ago, and that was fairly good.

[WarHampster]

Pixen is the only good pixel art and animation program for mac, but yeah, it's buggy as hell... I've just had to get used to it.

[Teruri]

I use the gimp, it's kinda like photoshop but free. You can do all kinds of things with it, even pixelart and animations. It's bug free (as far as I know) and there is a mac version.

I'd say check it out.

[WarHampster]

I actually used Gimp for some of the lightning animation tests... is it really practical for basic pixel stuff though? It seems kind of overkill, and wasn't really meant to be an animation program.

[Gnome]

I think I found a Good one:
http://jdraw.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=6

The only problem is it doesn't use a circular palette, which I use most of the time.

[Silverwind]

Pixen is the only good pixel art and animation program for mac, but yeah, it's buggy as hell... I've just had to get used to it.

I hope you mean the only good free art and animation program for Mac?

*mounts Photoshop and rides gloriously into the sunset*

[WarHampster]

It seems kind of overkill, and wasn't really meant to be an animation program.

I don't think photoshop can do animations at all.

[Silverwind]

It can.

[EqwanoX]

i used to think pixen was good but its WAY to buggy, it would mix up the color skeem of my sprites for no reason. i have photoshop elements, BUT i dont think you can turn off antialiasing on the line tool which makes it impossible for me to use for sprite drawing

silver what photoshop do you have?

[Silverwind]

I got the Adobe CS3 Creative Suite Web Design Premium when I became a student of York College. That's Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Contribute CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Extension Manager, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Flash CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder, Adobe Help Viewer 1.0 and 1.1, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Stock Photos CS3.

You need top notch software when you're a commercial graphic designer.