PyDPainter is a pixel art painting program inspired by the Commodore Amiga version of Deluxe Paint. It recreates many of the drawing techniques associated with classic 8-bit and 16-bit computer graphics while adding conveniences for modern desktops.
The editor offers specialised brushes, painting modes and palette operations for artwork that relies on careful placement and limited colours. Its animation and colour-cycling features are useful for retro game graphics and demonstrations.
PyDPainter supports familiar bitmap formats alongside Amiga-oriented image and animation formats. It also provides a substantial undo history, making detailed experimental work easier to reverse.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Draw with pencil, freehand area, line, curve, rectangle, circle, ellipse and polygon tools.
- Use airbrush, flood-fill and text tools.
- Select from built-in brushes or create custom brushes from existing artwork.
- Rotate and scale brushes while painting.
- Use Brush Trails to distribute and transform brush stamps along a path.
- Apply easing to brush trails for changes in spacing and size.
- Select smear, blend, smooth and other painting modes.
- Use mirror, tiled and cyclic symmetry patterns.
- Create gradients with configurable linear and circular fill directions.
- Apply arbitrary dithering matrices and bundled dithering presets.
- Edit palettes, paste RGB values and inspect colours with the eyedropper.
- Animate artwork and preview successive frames.
- Use palette colour cycling to create retro animation effects.
- Undo and redo artwork changes through a history of up to 256 levels.
- Open and save supported IFF, ANIM, GIF, BMP and PNG files.
- Use tooltips and an interface modelled on classic Deluxe Paint workflows.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Website: github.com/mriale/PyDPainter
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Developer: Mark Riale
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
PyDPainter is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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