Pixcil is a pixel art editor built around an almost infinite canvas. Instead of limiting the workspace to the final image bounds, it provides surrounding blank space that can be used as a scratch area, temporary colour palette or working buffer while constructing artwork.
The central frame represents the image that will be exported. Pixcil can also treat neighbouring frames as part of a larger structure: vertical frames can represent layers and successive horizontal frames can act as animation frames. On Linux, Pixcil can be used through its browser-based interface or from its Visual Studio Code extension.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Work on an almost infinite canvas rather than a fixed image-sized workspace.
- Use the surrounding blank area as temporary drawing space, a colour reference area or a working buffer.
- Export the central frame as the finished image.
- Open existing PNG images and edit them pixel by pixel.
- Save artwork as PNG while retaining additional Pixcil metadata.
- Arrange continuous vertical frames as layers when the corresponding setting is enabled.
- Treat successive horizontal frames as animation frames.
- Switch between previous and next frames with keyboard shortcuts.
- Includes pick, draw, fill, erase, select and move tools.
- Undo and redo edits from the keyboard.
- Switch directly between editing tools with dedicated key bindings.
- Change tools sequentially with Tab and BackTab.
- Available as a Progressive Web App that runs in a modern web browser.
- Available as a Visual Studio Code extension for editing pixel art inside the editor.
- Uses WebAssembly for the browser build.
- Keeps the interface deliberately compact and focused on pixel-level editing instead of general-purpose image manipulation.
Website: github.com/sile/pixcil
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Developer: Takeru Ohta
License: MIT License or Apache License 2.0
Pixcil is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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