Imagery
in Pixels

Pixel Perfect Art and Animation

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Imagery is a fully featured pixel image editor and animator all in one.

A full pixel toolkit

Pencil, eraser, fill, gradient, eyedropper, line, rectangle, ellipse, text and measure, each with a letter shortcut, live preview, and Shift/Alt modifiers for constraining, centring and squaring.

Sprites or Pictures

Imagery is great for producing animation and sprites but it can also be used as a regular picture editor, if you want.

Free transform

Scale, rotate, skew, distort, perspective and a sixteen-point warp mesh, plus quarter turns and mirrors, with nearest-neighbour resampling.

Image & canvas size

Resample the artwork or change the room around it, across every frame with five resampling methods including Scale2x and Dominant Colour for artwork that must stay made of its own colours.

Selections

Rectangular marquee, lasso and magic wand, combined with four modifiers (replace, add, subtract, intersect), with every fill, stroke and cut clipped to the actual shape.

Tiled view

See the canvas repeated all round itself and draw across its own seams, so a seamless tile is made against the thing it has to match.

Animation timeline

A filmstrip with per-frame durations, reordering, onion skinning, layer rows under the strip, and live playback in the Preview panel.

Layers & groups

Blend modes, per-layer opacity, visibility, reordering by drag, merge down, merge visible, flatten, and live editable text layers that store their raster so a missing font never silently changes your artwork.

Grids, guide and rulers

Square, non-square or isometric grids, per-bank guides, edge snapping, and a measuring tool that reads back step, distance, angle and pixel count.

Sprite banks

One document holds several banks, each with its own canvas size, layers and frames, so a 16×16 walk cycle and a 128×64 title graphic can live in the same file.

Puppet banks

Draw the character once, a part per layer, then animate by posing those parts frame by frame; in-between poses are tweened, so a walk cycle costs one drawing rather than twelve.

Reference rig banks

Trace a skeleton over a photo sheet (or import a captured FBX walk), and the rig drives a faint on-canvas guide across any number of frames, interpolating between the poses you traced.

Font banks

Regular text is supported but also create bitmap fonts as found on the Amiga and ST to use as text for more colourful and exotic fonts.

Tile map banks

Create tile maps across many rooms of any size. Manage your tiles in regular banks and lay out your levels and screens.

Import & export

Sprite sheets in and out (with JSON/CSV sidecars), animated GIF, PICO-8 cartridges written back without disturbing the cartridge's code, and Aseprite files read with their layers intact.

Colour control

A Swatches panel for any loaded palette and a Colour Wheel that builds monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triad, tetrad or square schemes round a base colour.

Palettes

Load and save .gpl, .aco and .act; colour enforcement holds every tool, filter and gradient to the palette you have chosen, so a 16-colour machine palette stays 16 colours.

Printing for pixels

Page layout planned in millimetres with accurate preview, with every sprite pixel snapped to a whole number of printer dots.

Brushes

Lift any selection into a reusable brush, filed by category and kept under your profile, so it is there for the next sprite too.

Lua filters

Blur, sharpen, dither, levels, curves, gradient maps, silhouette work, clean-up, retro effects and generators; the folder tree is the menu, and you can write your own with the Lua language.

Cross platform

Versions for Windows, Mac OS and flavours of Linux.

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