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Add to SafariWhen comparing GraphicsGale vs Pixen, the Slant community recommends GraphicsGale for most people. In the question“What are the best pixel art / sprite editors?” GraphicsGale is ranked 5th while Pixen is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose GraphicsGale is:
The animation tools in GraphicsGale are very easy to work with. Furthermore, the live preview helps clean up the animations in real time without a hitch.
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Pros
Pro Powerful animation tools
The animation tools in GraphicsGale are very easy to work with. Furthermore, the live preview helps clean up the animations in real time without a hitch.
Pro Offers a great palette tool
With GraphicsGale, the user can save and load palette, create gradation, and make color uniform.
Pro Free
Graphics Gale used to cost money but recently the program switched over to a free license.
Pro Pretty easy to learn the UI and the tools you have to work with are fantastic
Pro Works really well under Wine
Wine can help emulate Windows on non-Windows systems. You can get Graphics Gale running anywhere Wine can run. See WineHQ for more details.
Pro Mac native UI
Pro Supports animations
The user can create and preview animations right in Pixen.
Pro Easy to use
Pixen makes it easy for the user to start drawing and access more complex features.
Pro Tablet support
Pixen permits the user to draw with pressure sensitive tools.
Cons
Con Only available on Windows
GraphicsGale is only available on Windows.
Con UI requires a lot of clicking
The UI windows not very nice and requires a lot of clicking. For example mouse wheel is not useable at all to zoom in and out in main window.
Con Only available on Mac
Pixen is available only on Mac.
Con Not free
