Hello, I was messing around with the gimp and it great for nearly everything i need.

However, I'm not sure how to do a few things that would make things much easier when I do my pixel art.

1. A "preview box" of some kind. Like, one without any guides sticking in it that shows the finished picture at a 1:1 scale. I work zoomed in (usually 300-500%) on tiny images and it is annoying to zoom out every change I make. Additionally, I'd have to remove guides to really see how the picture looks like.

2. A way to simply specify radius of pencils. Brushes are awesome, however I prefer just simply drawing a 1 pixel circle, or a 2 pixel circle with the pencil took without looking for a brush of that size.

Also, if there are any other programs you reccomend for Pixel art, I'll be happy to know. My only requirement is that there must be a free linux version :-)

On 8/29/05, Simon Budig wrote:

percy tiglao (prtiglao@gmail.com) wrote:

1. A "preview box" of some kind.
Like, one without any guides sticking in it that shows the finished

picture

at a 1:1 scale. I work zoomed in (usually 300-500%) on tiny images and

it is

annoying to zoom out every change I make. Additionally, I'd have to

remove

guides to really see how the picture looks like.

You can open a second view to your image. The zoom level, guide visibility etc. is independant in this image view.

I just tried that, while it somewhat works, the guides are still stuck in there :( When i remove guides in the new view, they are removed in the old view as well.

2. A way to simply specify radius of pencils.

Brushes are awesome, however I prefer just simply drawing a 1 pixel

circle,

or a 2 pixel circle with the pencil took without looking for a brush of

that

size.

by clicking the "new" button in the brush selection dialog you get a dialog where you can adjust the parameters of the brush. You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to these parameters, so that you can easily change the radius of this brush on the fly.

Works great. Thanks :)

On 8/29/05, Simon Budig wrote:

percy tiglao (prtiglao@gmail.com) wrote:

On 8/29/05, Simon Budig wrote:

You can open a second view to your image. The zoom level, guide visibility etc. is independant in this image view.

I just tried that, while it somewhat works, the guides are still stuck in there :( When i remove guides in the new view, they are removed in the old view as well.

You need to toggle the visibility in the View menu. Guides are considered part of the image, so removing them in one image (by dragging them to the rulers) will remove them in all views. However, by just toggeling the visibility you'll just make them invisible in a specific view.

Thank you everyone, and sorry for the HTML in email thing. I didn't realize I had it on.

Hello. Thanks again for helping me a few weeks ago, but I have another question.

Is there a way to quickly preview a tiling of a picture you just made?

For example, lets say I'm making a 32x32 of grass, I'd like to make sure the grass looks good when I tile them together (Make sure it flows and that there aren't "lines" going down the picture)

The ideal case is when I change the first "view" or whatever that I could instantly see changes in another picture.