01 October 2012

Grafx2 v2.4 is out!
This version introduces the ability to create and edit animations (animated GIF).

Color cycling

A creative (and extensive!) use of color cycling by Neil Cicierega. Fading title, sparkling stars, shooting stars,... All done in a fixed 256-color image, only changing the palette colors.

No Escape by Prowler

Making-of No Escape, from pencil to composition (and a few vector effects) in Photoshop and pixelling in Grafx2.
It seems Prowler was using Grafx2 v2.1, judging by classic skin and no layer toolbar - two layers would have helped him draw over his sketch and fill his clean outline without having to clean every pixel of the sketch.  He doesn't use the Shading mode as I'd have thought, instead I suppose he uses a lot the keyboard shortcuts for next/previous color :  [ and ] on a QWERTY keyboard.

01 March 2012

The Googlecode host has removed a page that was automatically reporting recent changes (code, downloads, issues) : Updates.
If you were using this page, in its place you'll have to use the following RSS feeds :
- Issue updates
- Downloads
- Wiki pages
- Source code

Lots of people are pleading to the googlecode team to bring this page back, it's  Issue 24324 of the "support" project.

08 january 2012

Just a quick note : we're now available on IRC!
Feel free to join irc.freenode.net server, on #grafx2 channel.

1 september 2011

DawnBringer has released an awesome set of Factory lua scripts for GrafX2.

* MANY Palette analysis & optimation tools
* 3D-palette viewer
* AA-color finders
* Brightness/Hue/Contrast/Balance/Saturation/Lightness adjustment for Palette, Brush or Color (top quality)
* Tint/Colorize (Image & Brush)
* RetroFormat remapping
* C64-format testing
* Brush-2-Image, Image-2-Brush, Crop Brush Margins
* Curved Color Ramps (wip)
* Image effects & filters
* Palette/Histogram/Mixcolortable to Brush
* RubThru Pencolor (Spare 2 Main)
* TileSheet reorganizer
and much, much more...

Animation?

I have started an experimental version of Grafx2 that loses layers but gains animation capabilities. This means the program and user interface stay as simple as the layers version, instead of becoming exponentially more complex (and also that I could do it in one week instead of one year!).
The experiment starts here, but if you want to test, be sure to pick the latest attached version. It's a very early version, waiting for your comments. By the way, the default shortcuts for previous/next frame are set to Insert and Home.