How to make sprites and objects.

[FuryDr00d]

I would like to make personal sprites and objects. Which program would I do this on? I'm kinda broke right now, so I would like a free program. I have a windows. So I have MS Paint. If that is a program. Please explain who I could use them too. Thank you!

 

[imascribble]

I use GIMP or Paint.net. Both free and I've had no problems with them so far

 

[Kovos_Datch]

I use Paint.net for all of my editing needs.

 

[Sharm]

I've moved this thread to Program and Utility Discussion. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

Pyxel Edit has an older version that's free.  It's buggy and doesn't support animation but it's still incredibly useful for making pixel tiles.  If you can get together the very low asking price, the paid version is much, much better.  Much less buggy, has animation, and is being updated on a regular basis.  For a free sprite program Graphics Gale is good.

 

[Esrever]

I made a list here at this thread a while back.

Web Based
Free: Pixlr Editor (Requires Flash 10.0 or higher)

Free: Sumo Paint (Requires Flash 10.0 or higher)

Windows

Free: FireAlpaca (Also available on OS X)

Free: Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition

Free: Paint.NET (PSD Plugin located here)

$25.00 USD: Mischief (Also available on OS X)

¥5400 JPY: PaintTool SAI (approx. $45.00 USD as of 2015.05.12)

$49.99 USD: Serif Affinity Photo (OS X only for the time being, but a release is planned for 2016) More info here, and below under OS X.

$79.99 USD: Corel PaintShop Pro X7 (on sale for $49.99 USD)

$99.99 USD: Corel PaintShop Pro X7 Ultimate (on sale for $79.99)

$49.99 USD: Clip Studio Paint Pro / Manga Studio 5 (these are the same products - also available on OS X)

$219.99 USD: Clip Studio Paint EX / Manga Studio EX 5 (these are the same products - also available on OS X)

OS X

Free: FireAlpaca (Also available on Windows)

$25.00 USD: Mischief (Also available on Windows)

$29.99 USD: Pixelmator (PSD Format Compatible)

$49.99 USD: Serif Affinity Photo (Free While in Beta - Photoshop PSD and Plugin Support)

$49.99 USD: Clip Studio Paint Pro / Manga Studio 5 (these are the same products - also available on Windows)

$219.99 USD: Clip Studio Paint EX / Manga Studio EX 5 (these are the same products - also available on Windows)

Cross Platform (Win/OSX/Linux)

Free: GIMP

Free: GIMP-Painter (Compiled Windows Binaries)

Free: Krita

Free: Pinta (Paint.NET Clone)

Free: MyPaint

Pixel Art Centric (Windows/OS X Compatible)

Free: Tiled Map Editor

Free: tIDE (Tilemap Integrated Development Environment)

$9.00 USD: Pyxel Edit (Free version is available for a fairly outdated build 0.2.22c)

$10.00 USD: Aseprite

¥1995 JPY: GraphicsGale (approx. $16.63 USD as of 2015.05.12)

$24.99 USD: Pickle Editor

¥4000 JPY: EDGE2 (Japanese Language Only - approx. $33.34 USD as of 2015.05.12)

EDIT: Something I forgot to note in that previous thread was that Aseprite has available older versions available for download for free. Additionally, if you're comfortable compiling the software from source, this is another free option which allows for the current version. Simply the latest pre-compiled binaries are what will cost $10 USD.

 

[FuryDr00d]

Thank you! That's a lot of programs. 

 

[Draxxen89]

thank you very much!