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Pixelyz Overview
Create beautiful pixel art with our suite of tools.
You can find some of our best features below. They will simplify your work to help you to only focus on your art.
Viewport
Pixelyz workspace is designed to be as unobtrusive as possible. The focus is on the art and contextual menus.
The viewport is comprised of a top panel with all the documents opened and the work area.
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Move viewport
Hold ctrl and drag to move the viewport
Zoom viewport
Scroll midle mouse button to change the zoom
Vector
Vector buttons and their functions. This apply only when a Vector layer is selected.
Hold A on your keyboard, pick a direction and release to pick one of the four actions
New Vector
Create new Vector layer
Animate
Create animation for current Layer
Clear
Clear current vector and redraw shape
Delete
Delete current layer
Vector panel
Fill color
Outline color
Outline size
Adjust pixelisation
Fill color
Click to change vector color
Outline color
Click to change vector outline color
Outline size
Change vector outline size
Pixelyze
Change the pixel apparence of the layer
Drawing
A quick run down of all drawing buttons and their functions. This apply only when a Paint layer is selected.
Hold A on your keyboard, pick a direction and release to pick one of the four actions
Brush
Select the brush tool
Eraser
Select eraser tool
Animate
Create animation for current Layer
Deslect
Deselct current layer
Brush panel
Brush color
Ellipse brush
Triangle brush
Rectangle brush
Brush size
Brush size
Right click to open the panel: change brush size and spacing
Brush color
Click to change brush color
Brush shape
Click to change brush to rectangle, ellipse or triangle
Animation
Animation pie menu and its functions.
Hold A on your keyboard, pick a direction and release to pick one of the four actions
New
Create new keyframe
Copy
Copy current keyframe
Delete
Delete current keyframe
New Layer
Create a new Layer
Onion
Switch on/off the onion skin effect
Preview window
The preview window is the small window that can show you the entire workspace while you are editing a document.
Menu bar
Layer panel
The layer panel can be opened by pressing the layer button on the menu bar.
Layer panel is used to organise layers. You can drag and drop layers to change order or delete them.
You can change the visibility setting by clicking on the eye icon.
Lock the layer by clicking on the lock icon. When locked, you can't transform or edit the layer.
Layer panel
Layer properties
Open the layer properties panel by double clicking on a layer.
Size:
Layer width
Layer height
Pixel size - pixel appearance
Properties:
Color - fill color
Alpha - controls opacity
Outline color
Outline size
Animation timeline
The animation panel has a tool bar button at the top, a player bar at the bottom and animation clip timeline in the middle.
The tool bar button can be used to create a new keyframe.
Menu bar
A quick run down of all menu bar buttons and their functions.
Create a new document
New
Open existing document
Open
Undo
Undo last action
Show document settings menu
Settings
Video
Export to image sequence
Vector
Create a new vector layer
Duplicate selected layer
Duplicate
Save
Save current document
Import document as layer
Import
Redo the last action
Redo
Show timeline menu
Timeline
Layers
Show layer menu
Create paint layer
Paint
Animate selected layer
Animate
