A usable pixel art program written in Python
Announcing PyDPainter 2.2.1 with new gradients January 26, 2026 PyDPainter version 2.2.1 is now out! This update adds new gradient options along with some other improvements. Download now! Key Features 1. Fill & Dithering Circular & Linear Fills: We have added support for a Circular Fill with an adjustable center, along with an enhanced Linear Fill that now supports interactive direction dragging.…
Announcing PyDPainter 2.2.0 with Brush Trails June 19, 2025 PyDPainter version 2.2.0 is now out! This update adds Brush Trails along with some other improvements. Download now! Brush Trails (formerly "Spacing"): The "Spacing" requestor has been renamed to Brush Trails . It is a rethinking of DPaint III Move requestor which allows you rotate and scale brushes along a path along with "ease-in/out"…
Announcing PyDPainter 2.1.0 with Anim Brushes January 30, 2025 PyDPainter's 2.1.0 update introduces anim brushes (animated brushes) that work with animations and sprite sheets in addition to many other improvements. New Features: Anim brushes (animated brushes): Load/save IFF ANIM (ANBR) and GIF anim brushes Paint with anim brushes on a single frame or in an animation Grab anim brushes from…
Announcing PyDPainter 2.0.0 with Animation September 02, 2024 PyDPainter 2.0 is out now! This release adds animation to its array of pixel-painting capabilities. Here are some of the new features: Animation Load and save GIF and IFF ANIM5 Import and export a series of frames Edit and copy per-frame color palettes Easily edit per-frame animation rates Animation toolbar with VCR controls Additional…
Documentation, Saving IFF ANIM Files, and Fixing Animation Bugs April 17, 2024 Documentation There has been a lot of work done by Stephane Anquetil to fill in the major gaps I had in the documentation. In fact the very first documentation page (the Picture menu) was pretty much just a placeholder I made until Stephane filled in all the descriptions along with examples and helpful screenshots.…
Animation Debugging for Fun and Profit! February 13, 2024 Wait... "profit?" Well, maybe intangible profit since I am giving this away. 😀 I do get pleasure in making something usable that makes other people happy, though. Animation Changes Things My spare time in the last few weeks has been filled with debugging code in PyDPainter that used to make sense and work just fine, but now that animation…
GIFs are emanating and animating! January 04, 2024 GIF Animation Saving A milestone passed yesterday: animated GIF saving is working now in the development branch! As a bonus it also optimizes the file size by trying both the delta and the full image and seeing which compresses the smallest. The animated GIF loading which was previously added to the development branch now pairs perfectly with this…
Progress Update 2023-12-14 December 14, 2023 I have been making progress on a few things in the PyDPainter project: Running PyDPainter on the Web I was able to get parts of PyDPainter to run on the web. Here is a screenshot of it running it in a web browser: As you can see, the mouse pointer has a weird green block around it. Also, bringing up any requester freezes the program, so you can't load…
Progress Update 2023-11-25 November 25, 2023 I've been working on a few things with PyDPainter: PyDPainter Web Site I recently got the PyDPainter web site up and running. It is mostly a copy of the content that is already in GitHub but in an easier-to-read format. I made a script that refreshes this content directly from GitHub when any of it changes. There is also some exclusive content like the…