Adobe Photoshop
The world's most powerful imaging and graphic design software is at heart of almost every creative project. This includes photo editing and compositing, digital painting, animation and graphic design. You can now use the power of Photoshop on your iPad and desktop to create whatever you want. Our professional photography tools make it simple to edit everyday images or create complete image transformations on both desktop and iPad. You can crop, remove objects, retouch and combine photos. You can play with color and effects. Reimagine the art and beauty of photography. Photoshop is the perfect tool for all your design projects, including packaging, banners and websites. Combining photos and text can create new images. You can create unlimited layers and masks. Paint with brushes that you can control with a stylus or touch on the iPad. You can start on your iPad and finish on the desktop. Your work is automatically saved to cloud and your PSDs remain the same no matter where you're located. Adobe extends Photoshop to the web for sharing, reviewing, and light editing of Photoshop cloud documents (.psdc). Collaborators can open and view your work in the browser, provide feedback, and make basic edits without downloading the app.
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Pixen
Pixen is a professional pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games.
Take advantage of Pixen's wide array of tools when composing pixel art such as Pencil, Eraser, Brightness, Text, Eyedropper, Zoom, Rectangular Selection, Magic Wand, Lasso, Move, Fill, Line, Rectangle, and Ellipse.
Compose your artwork with layers, taking advantage of the flexibility layers provide when working with complex pixel art. Change opacity, blending modes, and more to compose creative effects.
Use filters to adjust colors, create effects, and post-process your artwork.
With Pixen, you can add and organize commonly-used colors into palettes.
Create and arrange image frames in the filmstrip view to piece together animations. Pixen can import animations from animated GIFs, animated PNGs, and even sprite sheets! It can also export animations as animated GIFs, animated PNGs, movies, and sprite sheets.
Take advantage of Pixen's grid tools to guide you in placing pixels just where you want them.
Define custom patterns to use while drawing with the Pencil, Line, or Eraser tool (instead of a single pixel).
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GraphicsGale
Many formats supported, including.ico and.gif..avi, and.cur..ani.. You can preview your animations while you work, and use multiple layers to make editing and drawing easier. Onion skinning allows for multiple layers, so you can output all your frames to a single sheet of sprite sheets, each frame can be exported to an image file, or the entire animation as one.gif file. GraphicsGale's export options can be used with any workflow. GraphicsGale also offers many pixel-art features that will help you create your work quickly, such as palette control, selectively erasing color, and tools to quickly replace and try new colors. Get a free download and start creating!
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Pixlr
Pixlr, the Online Photo Editor, lets you edit photos and create amazing designs right from your browser. You can experience next-level intuitive photo editing and graphic design using AI-powered tools that allow for fast yet professional edits. Our editor can open almost any image format, including PSD (Photoshop), PXD (Photoshop), JPEG (transparent), PNG (transparent), WebP and SVG. You can start with a blank canvas or choose one of our professionally designed templates. AI design tools will make editing fun and less tedious. It takes just one click to remove all background from photos and trim every hair. AI and Machine Learning will take your photo editing skills to the next level. Simpler steps yield equally stunning results. To edit your photos, toggle on or off and drag sliders left to right. Pixlr makes it easy to create unique photo effects.
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