GrafX2
GrafX2 is billed as the ultimate 256-color bitmap paint
program. This software includes a very large number of tools and
effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game
graphics, and generally any detailed graphics painted with a
mouse.
This is a bitmap paint program that allows you to draw in more
than 60 video resolutions (from 320x200 to 1024x768, including most of
the standard Amiga resolutions: 320x256, 320x512, 640x256, 640x512, and
more, provided your videocard knows how to handle them).
This program is dedicated to everybody who knows what a single
pixel is. Its layout is not very different from the famous Deluxe Paint
or Brilliance, so it will be quite easy to handle it if you know at
least one of these programs. If you aren't used to the art of drawing
with up to 256 colors, it will be a
little more difficult for you, but you should give it a try (or more,
because most of the power of this program won't show up on the first
try).
Features include:
- Image editing in indexed colors (with palette), up to 256
colors
- Classical tools: lines, circles, text, multiple undo/redo,
built-in brushes, ...
- Less classical tools: airbrush, splines, gradient-filled
shapes, custom brushes
- Dual-view mode, you can see and draw both zoomed and actual
size views at the same time
- Extensive palette editor: RGB and HSL color systems,
editing group of colors, define and create color ranges
- Palette control: reorder colors without altering picture,
common palette generation for merging two images
- Shading mode: helps you to antialias with your own
gradients
- Grid mode: draw tile and easily assemble and copy them to
create a screen mockup
- Patterned mode
- Transparency, smoothing, smearing, and other advanced
effects
- Extensive and customizable shortcuts. You can control
everything with the keyboard and disable the menu to draw fullscreen
- Unusual screen modes : wide and tall pixels, constrained
palettes. Very useful for pictures dedicated to 8 and 16-bit computers
- Supported file formats:
- PKM (Sunset Design) (This is a custom format used
only by GrafX)
- BMP (Microsoft, BMP file format)
- CEL, KCF (K.O.S. Kisekae Set System)
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- TGA (Truevision TGA - load only)
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