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PaintCAD alternatives

  • Microsoft Paint

  • Paint (formerly Paintbrush) is a simple, ultra-basic graphics painting program that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows. It opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the .bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without animation or transparency), PNG (without alpha channel), and TIFF (without the multiple pages).

    tags: Discontinued digital-painting graphics-editor image-editing minimalistic
  • Aseprite

  • Aseprite (previously ASE, aka Allegro Sprite Editor) is a program to create animated sprites & pixel art. Sprites are little images that can be used in your website or in a video game. You can draw characters with movement, intros, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos, color palettes, isometric levels, and more.

    tags: gif-animation graphic-design graphic-editor icon-editor layer-support
  • Piskel

  • Remember the good old 2D games and their beautiful sprites? With Piskel you can create your own in a few clicks.

    tags: animated-gif-creator art editors live-preview pixel
  • GraphicsGale

  • Animation graphic editor easy to use - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art.

    tags: animation animation-graphic animation-graphic-editor graphic-design graphic-editor
  • Grafx2

  • GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing, it includes a very large number of tools and effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game graphics, and generally any detailed graphics painted with a mouse. The program is mostly developed on Linux and Windows, but is also portable on many other platforms.

    tags: graphics bitmap
  • Pyxel Edit

  • Pyxel Edit is a pixel art drawing application especially designed for working with tiles. Place tiles to form a level, edit them directly to see how they all work together, then export your tileset and the level data, and load it into your game. Tiles can even be flipped and rotated, still being editable and synced. This feature is inspired by the awesome Pixothello and Cosmigo Pro Motion, but taken one step further.

    tags: graphics animation animated-gif tile-mapper pixelart
  • Fresh Paint

  • Unleash your inner creative with Fresh Paint – the ultimate canvas for your big ideas. Fresh Paint is a fun and easy to use painting app with the right tools for artists of all ages. We believe that brilliant, creative ideas can come from anyone, anytime. It’s time to set your creativity free. Create original artwork, turn photos into beautiful paintings, or choose an activity pack to help you get started quickly. From whimsical pictures of your friends to amazing landscapes, Fresh Paint enables you to create anything. »

    tags: digital-art digital-painting drawing
  • Tile Studio

  • Tile Studio is a complete development utility for graphics of tile-based games. The application contains a bitmap editor for creating tiles and sprites and a map editor for designing level maps.Tile Studio can be used together with ANY programming language, since the output is completely programmable! You can program Tile Studio to output your maps, animation sequences, bitmaps, palettes, etc. in any format and include the output directly into your source code!

    tags: Portable animation graphic-design pixel-art icon-editor
  • Pixen

  • Pixen is a pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games. With innovative features like a color palette system, patterns, and high-zoom support, Pixen packs all the tools pixel artists need in an intuitive, Mac-native interface. Pixen also makes creating frame-by-frame animations fun and easy.

    tags: image-editing animation-graphic-editor pixel-editor
  • Paint XP for Windows 7

  • Standalone old MS Paint program that allows you to get your old XP Paint interface in Windows 7.

    tags: image-editing painter
  • Moai

  • Moai is a spiritual successor to one of the elder gods of pixel editing: Autodesk Animator. Designed to make detailed pixel work easy while preserving many of Animator's unique processes, Moai exists to bridge the old with the new. The only things not returning are the FLI/FLC and 8bpp support.

    tags: pixel-art painter pixel-editor 8-bit-game pixel-painter
  • Pixelesque

  • Pixelsque's goal is to be as simple as possible, while still retaining many powerful features. It works like any standard pixel art editor, with a pen, eraser, and shapes. Pinch zoom and two finger drag can be used to move around the image from anywhere. Lesser-used functions such as save/open/new, and others can be found in the menu, saving valuble screen space on phones, and allowing easy access on tablets. It fully supports all Android devices from low-end phones to high-end tablets.

    tags: 2d-graphics graphics image-editing image-editors pixel-art
  • Cosmigo Pro Motion

  • Pro Motion is a drawing and animation software for Windows designed similar to the famous Amiga Deluxe Paint (DPaint).

    tags: animate animated-gif animation animation-graphic animation-graphic-editor
  • Pro Paint

  • Pro Paint for Mac is the realistic full-featured digital paint software for Mac that is used for painting, image editing, vector drawing, free-form transformation, cropping, alpha channel editing... It provides high quality image manipulation tools for original artwork creation.Pro Paint for Mac enables your works to be showcased just as impressive as what you can create on a physical canvas.

    tags: photography graphics sketch drawing painter
  • Paintastic

  • Paintastic allows you to make beautiful drawings, paintings, designs and greeting cards.With just a few strokes on your Android smartphone/tablet you can create colorful drawings and bring out your inner artist. Here are some features that make Paintastic a powerful and quick draw and paint tool suitable for all ages (for kids as well as grownups):

    tags: photo-editing drawing mspaint