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Sprites?

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Does anyone know any good tutorials on making sprites and what program should I use to make them?
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I know some people on the forums are using this:
http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/index.html
and others (such as me) simply use MSPaint. I haven't had time to play with Graphics Gale much, and MSPaint has always been enough for what I've needed to get done.
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MS Paint, Graphics Gale, Photoshop, GIMP, Illustrator, Pro Motion, Paint.net, Paint Shop Pro 6. I've only used photoshop, so I'm just listing what I've heard. Out of all of them, I'm hearing the most good things about Graphics Gale, from the forums. MS Paint seems to be used frequently, although it's very basic. I just Wikipedia'd GIMP, and it looks very cool. It's a raster graphics program that can also do basic animated images in GIF format.

Paint Shop Pro is from Corel, and is not the same thing as MS Paint, though they're both for Windows. They renamed the newer version of Paintbrush to MS Paint. But Paint shop Pro is also for raster (bitmap) graphics, and also vector graphics in the newer releases. So just play around with a few of them, and find the one of your preference.
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I'm actually looking for some spriting tutorials too, or at least a place to get started with spriting and pixel art. Of course I've used google to search for tutorials and guides, but I guess it would better if someone could recommend some tutorials or sites. Anyone..?

By the way, does anyone know a program where you can add single tiles and then it makes a tileset out of that? I found a program which could do this, but it couldn't make more than 4 coloums of sprites, but I wanted the tileset to be 16x16 tiles and not 4x64 tiles.
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Arti-Ravnos wrote:I'm actually looking for some spriting tutorials too, or at least a place to get started with spriting and pixel art.
Can't help you on this topic but...
By the way, does anyone know a program where you can add single tiles and then it makes a tileset out of that?
Usually, I think, you just turn on the grid in whatever image program you're using?
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zeid's reply to you was this post http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewto ... =30&t=3489 which I split out and stickied.
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I dont know if Im a cheap bastard, but I use GIMP lol and of course photoshop when Im on windows
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By the way, does anyone know a program where you can add single tiles and then it makes a tileset out of that?
i would say tile studio.
http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/
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I'm still using paint.net to a lot of success :)
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when i first saw your avatar i thought, 'this guy's a pixel artist', so like i read this and think 'doesn't this guy already know how to draw.

you can use microsoft paint, graphicsgale, Paint shop pro 7
i think the best paint program would be microsoft paint + paint.NET+graphics gale + Paint shop Pro 7 + photoshop CS3, it would be called Paint Gale Pro Shop.NET,

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Lol, I never thought of that... I figured he made it but that never dawned on me... Oh well, if he did make it it's always nice to see how others do things, in hopes to better yourself :mrgreen:
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