PixlPunkt is a modern cross-platform pixel art editor that brings together painting tools, layered editing, animation workflows, tile work, and plugin extensibility in a single application.
It supports both canvas and tile animation, includes non-destructive effects and palette management, and works with a wide range of import and export formats. Linux x64 builds are available as DEB, RPM, and tarball packages.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides brush, eraser, shape, fill, and selection tools with configurable size, opacity, density, and pixel-perfect modes.
- Includes advanced gradient fills with linear, radial, angular, and diamond modes, plus multiple dithering algorithms.
- Offers a layer system with folders, blend modes, and animatable non-destructive effects such as drop shadow, outline, glow, scan lines, and palette quantization.
- Supports canvas animation with keyframes, onion skinning, camera transforms, and audio reference tracks, alongside tile animation with reels and sprite sheet export.
- Features palette presets, an HSL color picker, gradient generation, palette import and export, and color extraction from images.
- Extends through a Plugin SDK for custom brushes, shapes, effects, tools, and import or export handlers.
- Works with a native .pxp format and can import or export formats including PNG, GIF, MP4, AVI, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, Aseprite, PyxelEdit, ICO, CUR, and Tiled files.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/ChadRoesler/PixlPunkt
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Developer: Chad Roesler
License: MIT License
PixlPunkt is written in C#. Learn C# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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