Pixel Forge Free 8 bit pixel art software, by Kea Summit

Canvas

W H

Importing multiple PNGs at once adds each one as its own layer in this tab.

Layers

Tools

Brush 1px

Shape style

Mirror X Mirror Y

Grid 🔲 Tile View (3×3)

Grid lines Every 1px

Zoom 24px

Ctrl+scroll over the canvas to zoom. Hold Shift while drawing a rectangle/ellipse to constrain it to a square/circle. Tile View shows a 3×3 read-only preview to check seamless tiling.

Quick Edits (this tab, permanent)

Recolor from to

Want a variant without touching your original art? Use the non-destructive flip/recolor export options in the Animation Timeline panel below the canvas instead.

Color

#442434

Palette

Recent

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Export

Sprite Name

Shared by every tab/animation/variant as the folder & filename prefix (e.g. "Slime" → Slime_Yellow/Slime_Yellow_Walk/Slime_Yellow_Walk_1.png).

Export Frame

Saves just the frame you're viewing now, as sprite.png.

Export Animation

Exports every frame in this tab only, as-is — no color or mirror variants applied.

Animation

Suffix

Preview: sprite_walk_1.png

Spritesheet = every frame side by side in one PNG strip (slice by frame width), ready for engines like Unity, Godot or Phaser.

Variants

Colour Variants

Every export is organized by variant — each one gets its own top-level folder containing every tab's animations (e.g. "Yellow", "Green").

Mirror Variants

Adds a mirrored copy of every frame to each color variant's export — saved alongside the originals in the same animation folder, not a separate one.

Enable

Preview: sprite_Yellow/sprite_Yellow_walk/sprite_Yellow_walk_1.png

Also include a spritesheet strip per animation

Exports this tab only, crossed with every colour variant (plus the untouched original) and the mirror variant above. To export every tab at once with the same structure, use "⇩ Export All Tabs" above the canvas.

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Animation Timeline

1 frame

Duplicate the current frame to carry its artwork forward, then tweak it for the next pose — same idea as duplicating a layer, one level up. Use ◀ ▶ to reorder frames. Press Play to cycle through every frame — choose Boomerang to bounce forward and back.