PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor
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3 days ago
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| pixieditor.net
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Uehreka
1 day ago
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> Procedural (VFX, effects, non-desctuctive editing)

You had my attention, now you have my interest… or however that quote goes.

Edit: Please please please add the `playsinline` attribute to your video elements. I’m on my phone, and every time I scroll a video explodes and takes over the whole screen.

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jeroenhd
21 hours ago
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I've never heard of this property, what browser does this?
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yboris
8 hours ago
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fmbb
11 hours ago
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Chrome, Edge, Opera, Safari support this attribute.
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dindresto
20 hours ago
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iOS Safari
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mythz
22 hours ago
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I like it, works great in Fedora.

Looks like a great addition to the available image editors on Linux. IMO image editing is one of the few areas lagging in Linux. Currently alternating between Pinta, Krita, Gimp and photopea.com. Will switch to this for a while to see it become my new go to.

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oneshtein
19 hours ago
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It doesn't fit my 2k screen on Fedora (X11/Mate) with no option to scale it down. It looks like 4k screens are supported only.
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mythz
19 hours ago
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Yeah can confirm it looks great on my 4K
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spookie
11 hours ago
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Krita is pretty good. I find the UX reasonable and G'MIC¹ is a joy to use in there.

¹ https://gmic.eu/

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F3nd0
11 hours ago
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I enjoy using GIMP. Most of my (not very advanced) needs are met quite well. Looking forward to try out the more recent versions too.
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kelvinjps10
8 hours ago
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I don't think some stuff is reasonable, but for most stuff, I find it hard to use. And I don't come from Photoshop, so it's not like a problem of being used to another program or something
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she46BiOmUerPVj
1 day ago
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Looks fun. It's standard for software packaged for Linux to include a base directory in its tarball, and I usually check, but I did barf your application all over my /opt.

May sound crazy but I was hoping for export to terminal escape codes / box drawing chars. No biggie, I can convert the output.

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cloogshicer
1 day ago
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FYI, this crashes the tab in the latest iOS 18.5 Safari and Chrome.
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tummler
1 day ago
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Perpetually reloads in Brave on iOS (never resolves).
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pzo
1 day ago
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Confirm, same for me
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oniony
1 day ago
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Took out Waterfox mobile too, but was strangely okay after reload.
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msephton
1 day ago
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As somebody who is currently making a native macOS-only 2D pixel editor...this has some cool stuff in it!
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JKCalhoun
16 hours ago
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If your pixel-editor does just the one thing very well (and intuitively), I say keep going.

This app looks cool — but also looks to be heading into Blender-level complexity. A 21st Century MacPaint is still desirable.

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msephton
7 hours ago
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Thanks! I will surely keep going. My app also has a bunch of novel features and brings back a bunch of functionality forgotten since the classic Macintosh era.
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andrekandre
2 days ago
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source if your interested:

https://github.com/PixiEditor/PixiEditor

* looks like its based on dotnet avalonia

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chilmers
18 hours ago
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I tried this for pixel art and came away a bit disappointed. It seems to have no real support for drawing using palettes / indexed colors. Sure, you can setup or load a palette, but the drawing tools make no reference to it, and continue to colors outside of it. The color pickers don't even show the palette, they just show the full color wheel. Where is the support for dithered gradients using on palette colors? Where is the support for antialiasing using only palette colors? Maybe this is planned, but given it's already at v2.0 I'm surprised the pixel art support is so half-baked.
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ksymph
17 hours ago
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It's possible to implement dithering and posterization using the node graph, where you paint normally and it outputs as dithered pixel art in whatever palette you want. It's not a perfect replacement for builtin tools, but still pretty cool. Someone showed their setup for this in the Discord server.
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JKCalhoun
16 hours ago
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That's cool that you can do that. I worry though that the level of complexity required to set that sort of thing up will act as a hurdle for many that might want to use that feature.

If the node graph is saved in the document (?) perhaps there exists then a "template" (empty document) where the node graph is already set up for palette dithering. That would make it easy to onboard for new users.

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thegabriele
1 day ago
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Do we finally have a new Fireworks?
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vyrotek
23 hours ago
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I had the exact same thought! I played with it a bit and I immediately thought of Fireworks. I still use it from CS6. Hopefully not anymore.
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WillAdams
1 day ago
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The big feature I'd like to see is someone setting up the re-rendering PNG files which Fireworks had.
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eternityforest
2 days ago
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Wow, if this is as good as it looks, I suspect I'll be using it quite a bit in the future, especially once it gets a brush engine!
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Buttons840
1 day ago
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Yes, it looks really good. I wonder if it will unseat Aseprite?
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whizzter
1 day ago
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Not necessarily, ASE is has a smooth UI that people like and as long as you're fine within the constraints.

This one is great since it allows for in-editor previewing of "weird" ideas, I know I've re-invented that UV-mapping workflow shown with the skeleton on the page once for a game-jam and wanted to use it but skipped it in the end since asset-creation was "annoying", having support in an editor to preview it easily can be a game-changer.

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Buttons840
1 day ago
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You mean ASE is more focused? Both look quite smooth, but PixiEditor seems to have more features (which inevitably leads to less focus).
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bentt
15 hours ago
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All I want is proper color channel editing like Photoshop has and Affinity refuses to do right.
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archerx
14 hours ago
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Please elaborate, I’m working on an image editor made with JavaScript.
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reactordev
1 day ago
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Bones. Add 2D skeletal animation and I’ll gladly pay money for this.
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register
14 hours ago
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I am working on Pixel Editor for retro graphics. What do you believe that ASE is missing? At the moment I am targetting the Zx Spectrum Next that I have recently backed. However if I get some compelling ideas I migth deviate from my original objective.
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reactordev
11 hours ago
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For retro graphics, definitely a palette editor and animation tool. Frame by frame animation is one thing. Bone animation is better. UV indexed bone animation is best. But there’s something fucking magical about palette animated backgrounds. Color cycling animation.
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doobiedowner
13 hours ago
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As a guy that tries to make the lame ui in FactoryTalk sparkle, thank you!!!
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ivanjermakov
1 day ago
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FOSS? All I see is paid and no source.
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mattbaker
1 day ago
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You are mistaken, the source is available and the editor is free to download.
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ethan_smith
1 day ago
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The project is indeed FOSS - it's licensed under MIT according to their GitHub repository (https://github.com/PixiEditor/PixiEditor), though they offer a paid version with additional features.
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Borealid
1 day ago
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The repository says it's LGPL, not MIT-licensed.
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mananaysiempre
14 hours ago
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F3nd0
11 hours ago
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Always refreshing to see a new project opt for copyleft!
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pull_my_finger
1 day ago
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I thought I'd seen this posted just 2 days ago, it looks like that post is this post and the timestamp just got updated. I know HN boosts interesting posts that slips through the gaps, but I think it should be more transparent then just updating the timestamp and presenting it as a new post.
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msephton
7 hours ago
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I agree, but it seems the managenent won't change the policy.
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