Pixel art editor

PapaiArtPixelPaint 98 Pro

A tight, purpose-built pixel workflow with a custom brush engine, floating selections, sprite sheets and atlases, and a full Python API, so you can extend the app when the built-in tools aren't enough.

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PapaiArt PixelPaint 98 Pro
PixelPaint 98 Pro interface
Status
Released
Latest version
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Platform
Windows
Price
Free
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Overview

A pixel art editor with a full Python scripting layer underneath, and a proudly Windows 98 soul.

PixelPaint 98 Pro is a professional pixel art editor built for artists who want precision, speed, and the freedom to shape their own tools.

It combines a purpose-built pixel workflow with a full Python scripting layer. When the built-in tools aren't enough, you extend the app with your own tools, batch operations and export pipelines.

It's built for professionals and technical artists who need a fast, reliable pixel editor every day, and the ability to automate or extend it when a project needs something the UI doesn't offer.

Features

What's inside

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Core editing

A brush engine and selection tools designed for pixels.

  • Custom brush engine: tips and inks are separate, composable layers with stroke-wide opacity
  • Non-destructive floating selections (move, scale, rotate) in a single undo step
  • Multi-step tools with live preview: curve and polygonal lasso
  • Tabbed documents, each with its own selection, history, zoom and active layer
  • Snapshot-based undo/redo that also covers scripted operations
PixelPaint 98 Pro: Core editing
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Sprite sheets, animation and atlases

Import and export for game pipelines are built into the core, not added as plugins.

  • Native sprite sheet, animation sequence and texture atlas import/export
  • No lock-in: your existing sheet and atlas conventions are supported directly
PixelPaint 98 Pro: Sprite sheets, animation and atlases
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Python scripting and addons

A real API over the document model, with its own bundled runtime.

  • Full pybind11 API: document, layers, selections and tools
  • Bundled, standalone Python runtime, with no separate install needed
  • Write custom tools, batch operations or export pipelines as addons
  • Built-in example addons to learn the API from
  • Undo-safe: every scripted change can be rolled back like a manual edit
PixelPaint 98 Pro: Python scripting and addons
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A pixel art editor with a full Python scripting layer underneath, and a proudly Windows 98 soul.

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