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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Jul 2005 20:07 UTC

Yesterday, the Open Sword Group released a beta of Pixen v3. "Pixen is the best program for the pixel artist using Mac OS X. Pixen is specifically for small-scale or pixel art; it shines better there than any other application. Not only that, but Pixen carries no price tag: it's open source under the MIT license and absolutely free." As far as I know, this is the only application of it's kind, with no equivelant on either Mac, Windows or Linux.

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by on Mon 25th Jul 2005 22:23 UTC

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You mean to tell me The GIMP can't do this?

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by Thom_Holwerda on Mon 25th Jul 2005 22:27 in reply to " "

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You mean to tell me The GIMP can't do this?

Of course it can-- but you don't use a chainsaw to cut your bread now do you?

GIMP is nice but it' way too overkill for true Pixelart. Besides that, GIMP is a usability nightmare to me.

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by on Mon 25th Jul 2005 22:42 in reply to "RE: "

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It's also not Mac-native, so it doesn't fit in as well with the rest of the interface. It doesn't feel at "home".

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