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Switching to Pixelart Makers

Keep your muscle memory. Gain a team.

Choose the Classic keymap, bring in your sheets, GIFs and palettes, and keep drawing the way you already do, now in a file your whole team can open.

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Your shortcuts, on day one. Classic uses the pixel-editor defaults you know. Hybrid adds design-tool navigation like ⌘K and ⇧1. Switch in Preferences whenever you like.

Shortcuts in each keymap
ActionHybridClassic
Actions…⌘K⌘/⌃Space
Zoom to fit all⇧1⌘0
Artboard toolA⌥A
Frame properties…⌥PP
Export…⇧⌘E⌥⇧⌘S
Download .pixelart file⇧⌘S⌘S⇧⌘S

⌘ is Ctrl on Windows and Linux, and ⌥ is Alt.

Forgot a key? Press ? Search every shortcut of your keymap without leaving the canvas.

Or just type what you want. Every action is searchable, with the ones that fit your selection suggested first.

Bring your existing sprites. Export a PNG sheet or a GIF from your current editor and bring it in: Import sprite sheet… cuts sheets into frames, GIF frames keep their timing, and palettes come along too.

Sheets

A live grid cuts the sheet into frames you can retime and tag.

GIFs

Every frame lands on the timeline with its own duration.

Palettes

Drop a .gpl or .hex file to replace or extend your palette.

Keep your workflow. Add your team and PixelLab. The same pixel workflow, in one shared file with AI for the grunt work.

Every sprite on one canvas

Artboards side by side, each with its own frames, layers and palette.

Your team in the file

Live cursors, frames split between people, and undo that skips a teammate's pixels.

PixelLab for the grunt workPixelLab

Placeholder sprites, cut-outs and walk cycles from a prompt.

The workflow you already know. Every habit below works the way you expect.

  • Pixel-perfect strokes
  • Horizontal and vertical symmetry
  • Onion skin in red and blue
  • Linked cels and continuous layers
  • Tags with ping-pong and repeats
  • A loop section on F2
  • A preview window on F7
  • Cel opacity and z-index
  • Blend modes on layers
  • Outline and Replace color on every frame
  • Canvas size with an anchor
  • Right-click paints the background colour

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