Tilf
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Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a free, simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential drawing tools, live preview, undo/redo, export options and more.
Pixel art editor
About
- Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful PySide6-based pixel art editor optimized for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets
- It has no animation features and the like, but focuses on essential features, making it well suited to sprites and small graphics work
- Runs immediately without account registration, email entry, or complicated installation, and works on Windows, MacOS, and GNU/Linux
- Supports basic drawing tools such as pencil, eraser, fill, eyedropper, rectangle, and ellipse, plus up to 50 levels of undo/redo, real-time preview, and import/export in various formats
- Provides export to PNG (with or without transparency), JPEG/JPG, and BMP formats and an auto-save feature, with zoom (1–50x), grid display, and background color and transparency settings
- Released as open source (GPL v3)
See also
- aseprite
- Pixel Art
- Retro Diffusion - Generate Pixel Art with AI