Castle Paradox

Meatballsub

I guess what I am looking for is a graphic program that has the keyboard functionality of CUSTOM's graphic editor (such as being able to draw each pixel with the keyboard rather than a mouse). Does such a program exist?
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LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject:

Oh, God. How I wish such a thing existed. For all I know, it could exist.
Graphics tablets help a lot, but without the control of the arrow keys, it's difficult to make accurate pixel art for me. In short, I too would like to see something like this.
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djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

someone should export the custom.exe drawing program to make it usable with varying sizes and wider range of colours....

TMC · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject:

This gets asked quite a lot, doesn't it?

In that thread, Calehay concludes by suggesting mtPaint

Meatballsub · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:55 am Post subject:

That is actually a very nifty program. Thanks for the link.
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MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:01 am Post subject:

you could probably get clever and set up joy2key to make the arrows count as mouse movement.

just use the mouse with mspaint. use the vista version if you want a bigger buffer. other than programs like promotion or graphics gale, you can't really beat mspaint for pixel art. you might want to have psp6/7 on the side for other things.

mostly just use mspaint though. it's really good. use the line tool instead of the pen tool.

don't use the keyboard to draw. trust me on this.

edit: actually the worst thing about mspaint is the way the palette management works. the RGB values aren't shown at all when choosing them or in the colors, and the color picker is really... odd. learn to pick colors using HSL.

someone needs to disassemble winxp paint and fix its undo buffer to have about 20 ways to undo. seriously, if it had a better undo buffer(something like psp's) and color options and shortcutes like psp did, it would be the perfect paint program.

why haven't the open source dudes made an awesome version???? paint.net doesn't count!

TwinHamster · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:13 am Post subject:

There's a free version of Gale, which is great if you're using it just to have a better tool than MSPaint.

LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:44 am Post subject:

I like to use the arrows for precision. I have turrets, so my hands are a little shaky. Now if only my eye was as precise as my mind.
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Moogle1 · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject:

LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject:

Sorry. My fingers were all over the place and I spelled it wrong. Ha ha ha!

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