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* [[How_do_I_customize_the_master_palette|Tweaking the master palette]]. Most of the items in the Colors menu will help. | * [[How_do_I_customize_the_master_palette%3f|Tweaking the master palette]]. Most of the items in the Colors menu will help. | ||
** Remember, you can apply them not only on the entire palette at once, but by using the rectangle select tool, it's easy to apply them to just one ramp or part of a ramp. | ** Remember, you can apply them not only on the entire palette at once, but by using the rectangle select tool, it's easy to apply them to just one ramp or part of a ramp. | ||
** You can also reduce the strength of an effect after applying it, using the 'Edit->Fade' menu item and adjusting the opacity slider. | ** You can also reduce the strength of an effect after applying it, using the 'Edit->Fade' menu item and adjusting the opacity slider. | ||
Revision as of 21:11, 30 September 2012
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. it is a featureful graphics editor, which is often called "The Photoshop of Linux". Despite its reputation in the GNU/Linux world, it is cross-platform, and works well on Windows too. It is mainly intended for photo editing, but is also good for pixel art.
Update: As of 2.3.9+, Gimp has become a lot better for pixelling. With
- The ability to easily select palette colors from the keyboard (move to next/prev palette color)
- The 'clipboard' brush and pattern, which reflect the current contents of the clipboard, make it easy to cut out parts of the picture and paint with them. This is particularly helpful for tile and background creation.
- The 'Colormap arrange' plugin can help you to arrange the 16 color palettes of any sprites you want to import. It preserves the appearance of the image regardless of how you rearrange the colors, so it's very easy to use.
If you feel up to using a development (ie. maybe not as stable) version, you can get 2.3.x versions from [1] (Not the link given below)
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Documentation
Specific applications
- Tweaking the master palette. Most of the items in the Colors menu will help.
- Remember, you can apply them not only on the entire palette at once, but by using the rectangle select tool, it's easy to apply them to just one ramp or part of a ramp.
- You can also reduce the strength of an effect after applying it, using the 'Edit->Fade' menu item and adjusting the opacity slider.
- Hue-Saturation and Color Balance can be used to alter the overall mood of the palette.
- Brightness-Contrast: self explanatory, hopefully.
- Levels and Curves: These are the most flexible. Recommended. Remember you can alter the levels or curves individually for each channel(R, G, B) to achieve a color alteration effect; This is mutually exclusive with the 'value' option, though, which is more suited to adjusting overall contrast and brightness. So set the 'value' curve/levels first if you want to set it -- it will automatically propagate to the individual R,G,B curves/levels which you can then tweak.