Sprite modifications question

[alando1]

Question, can anyone tell me what the best art program to use for a sprite re-color is? I'm currently working on some skins and I don't want to have to use DeeP Sea all the time for sprite modifications. If anyone has a good suggestion, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.

-Alando1

[DuckReconMajor]

XWE IMO

[Fletcher`]

DuckReconMajor said:

XWE IMO

XWE is not an art program.

[alando1]

Ok... not many suggestions, eh? If there is anyone who can recommend an art program that I can use to edit sprites, I really would appreciate it.

[Chrispaks]

alando1 said:

Ok... not many suggestions, eh? If there is anyone who can recommend an art program that I can use to edit sprites, I really would appreciate it.

On a less serious note, MSPaint.

[GreyGhost]

While I haven't used it myself, Allegro might be worth investigating and Grafx2 isn't bad if you don't mind a "Deluxe Paint" user interface.

[Gez]

rf` said:

XWE is not an art program.

It can do palette swaps.

I'd recommend the GIMP. It's free and reasonably powerful. Contrarily to Paint, it does handle transparency. And layers. And a lot of undos/redos.

[VoltDriver]

Go with either Photoshop, GIMP, or Paint.NET.

As for adding your sprites, I HIGHLY recommend Slumped. Everytime i use XWE it screws up something, so Slumped is the way to go for that.

[Chopkinsca]

XWE does have some image editing tools. Not much, but they are there. It's great for doing work on existing doom palleted images. When in editing mode, press 1 over the pixel you want to change to the selected colour. 2 will do the next colour in the index without switching the chosen colour. It's also great for changing sets of colours too.

Otherwise, the suggestions in this thread will work.

[alando1]

Wow, a lot of great options. I thank all of you for your suggestions. I'll probably try a little bit of each. Once again thank you all for your help.

-Alando1

[Vegeta]

I suggest Pain Shop Pro, it's easy to use and very versatile.

[Agent_Ash]

My intuition tells me that you might be doing something for (G)ZDoom. In that case recoloring sprites would be certainly unnecessary, because Decorate's translation works fine. Apart from that -- Photoshop. It does everything.

(If you're one of those who "dooesn't like" or "doesn't want to look into it" -- face it, Photoshop is necessary)

[alando1]

To reply to your assumption, Jekyll, I'm mainly working on skins for the player. Of course I am quite aware of the DECORATE translation system but as I said, I need a program to help me with sprite modifications (aside from using DeeP Sea) mainly to use for skin creations. But I do thank you for an art program suggestion. I am going to look into Photoshop as a program I am willing to get soon.

[GreyGhost]

Just discovered that IrfanView has a colour replacer in it's Paint dialog - you might like to check that out.

[TMD]

Vegeta said:

I suggest Pain Shop Pro, it's easy to use and very versatile.

It just sounds painful to me.

[Reisal]

Vegeta said:

I suggest Pain Shop Pro, it's easy to use and very versatile.

Is that a masochist's version of Paint Shop Pro?

[Gez]

Seems a fitting complement for the GIMP.

[Creaphis]

Here's a tutorial that actually makes colour editing with XWE manageable. I've used it, it's alright.