OSX too...sweet. I'll download and test.

Please note that both the Windows and OSX versions do give a warning about it being trustworthy. You should try to resolve that.

Edited by jalonso - 09 November 2013 at 1:33pm

I already downloaded and will test so that when others ask (they are always asking for apps here, especially OSX pixel apps) I can answer with some knowledge. It was my browser that brought that warning up and I totally ignored it. I only mentioned because some people freak on stuff like that and was suggesting a fix for all not me.

Chrome Browser on PC and FF on the Mac.

Edited by jalonso - 09 November 2013 at 3:19pm

Bump (since otherwise was on page 2 now).

Has anyone tried this and can give some feedback?

Edited by flux - 17 December 2013 at 12:43am

Krita and MyPaint solve the palette/color problem effectively by having decorationless windows that pop up at pointer location, and after you click+release the button (or a minimum time passes) the window dismisses itself.  The window is initially triggered via configurable keyboard shortcut.
(MyPaint further improves on that concept via grouping types of color selector together, and hitting the shortcut more than once cycles through the different selectors in that group)

Making your various windows dockable, in the style of GIMP or Photoshop, is also an option (if somewhat less user-friendly than the 'popup' option).

I'm pleased to report PixelShop does in fact run OK under WINE; since I only use Linux this is my only way of trying PixelShop.
There is one notable problem: every few seconds, the entire window content, including all submenus, moves one pixel down and to the right. This effect is also immediately triggered whenever I hover over one of the subwindows.
This is not necessarily directly related to your program, it may be a bug in WINE.



Other comments:

* Having zoom require a mousewheel is aggravating. I only have a tablet.
   (also, it violates my expectations, which are that I should be able to zoom with - and + keys of the keypad, or at least - and = keys that follow the numrow. Every other graphics app supports this)

* As well as shift+dragging to pan the canvas, it would be nice to have the standard middle-click-and-drag for panning. Again, this makes things nicer for tablet users, and the majority of mice have a middle button too. When I only had a mouse, I used middle button a lot for this purpose.



* The 'test animation on a range of backgrounds' is pretty good. I'd like to see an option for the character to walk across the display, as this would more accurately show what the animation looks like in real use.

* Customizable shortcuts (I notice you call them 'shortkeys') would be helpful. Not everyone has a QWERTY keyboard layout. (I have a Colemak keyboard layout, personally, and prefer to group all my keyboard shortcuts near the right side of the keyboard so that they are close to my tablet.)

* The 'brush' and 'alpha', 'fill' and 'fill alpha' tools appear to differ only in how they display the image. It's not clear to me why this is, and when I should use one rather than the other.

* The background displayed by the 'Animation' window and the *alpha tools.. How do I change this? (edit: I see. It's in the Tool Options dialog, which is stuffed with a range of loosely-related options for the program in general)

* Ctrl+LClick/RClick to darken/lighten colors is neat

* The 'Grade' Tool is interesting, but I struggle to predict what it will do. I don't understand what controls the length of the gradient, how much area it will fill, or how far through the gradient it will go.

* In general, it seems to suffer a lot from the classic problem of commercial software -- 'design by committee'. It consists of a range of features which  could be much better integrated to allow the user to work efficiently, and the implementation of those features is quirky rather than matching existing standards (such as middleclick to pan, Ctrl+Click eyedrops the drawing color, - and + to zoom, ..)



Edited by neota - 18 December 2013 at 2:04pm