Pixelmash News

[p]We’re thrilled to announce that Pixelmash 2025.2 has arrived, and it brings one of the biggest additions yet to your animation toolkit: layer effects are now fully animatable using keyframes![/p][p][/p][p]This opens the door to all kinds of dynamic possibilities for your pixel art. Imagine a lightning bolt whose glow pulses and fades over time, a character whose clothes shift color as they power up, or a shifting ground shadow that adds depth to a moving scene. Now, effects like Glow, Colorize, Drop Shadow, and more can change over time — seamlessly integrated into Pixelmash’s animation timeline alongside layer transforms and vector shape tweening. The result? Complex animated effects made far easier than in traditional pixel art editors.
[/p][p]We’ve also made the Auto Limit Colors effect much more reliable, making it even better for converting photos or illustrations into authentic pixel art palettes. Plus, several bugs have been squashed to keep your workflow smooth and frustration-free.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]
We can’t wait to see the creative animations you bring to life with this new update![/p][p][/p][p]Give us feedback and show us what you're working on on the Pixelmash Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1204551781409890366/1204567179203321946[/p][p][/p][p]Feature List[/p]

• [p]Added keyframe animation support for all layer effects[/p]
• [p]Greatly improved reliability of Auto Limit Colors effect[/p]
• [p]Various bug fixes and performance improvements[/p]

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We’re excited to share that Pixelmash 2025.1 is now available! This update brings some powerful new enhancements to help streamline your workflow and expand your creative possibilities. The Dither effect now includes both blend modes and an amount slider, offering more nuanced control over your dithering results. You can now also copy and paste individual effects using a new right-click menu in the effects panel, making it easier to reuse and experiment with your favorite setups. We’ve also added blend mode support to the Colorize effect, giving you greatly expanded control over layer recoloring.

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Alongside these creative tools, this release includes various bug fixes and performance improvements to keep everything running smoothly. We hope you enjoy the new version and can't wait to see what you create!

Feature List:

• Added right-click menu to effects panel to copy/paste individual effects
  
• Added blend modes to Colorize layer effect
  
• Added blend modes and amount slider to dither layer effect
  
• Various bug fixes
  

We’re pleased to announce that Pixelmash 2025.0 has been released, including an enhanced copy/paste workflow that allows working across multiple apps seamlessly, plus bug fixes and UI improvements! [ETC]

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The previous release of Pixelmash introduced our new area select tools, and our copy/paste improvements in this release build and expand on that. You can now easily copy and paste pixel selections rather than just whole layers (including copying pixels as rendered from vector layers), and you can also now copy and paste to and from the system clipboard to seamlessly work across different graphics applications.

Other improvements in this release include bug fixes and UI improvements, including a new grid alpha setting in the View menu (under Grid Appearance). Give it a shot and let us know what you think!

We’re excited to announce that Pixelmash 2024.3 has been released, and includes multiple user-requested features that will make a huge difference in your day-to-day workflow: area selection tools and animation frame duplication/reordering!

Pixelmash’s new area select tool works on both standard pixel layers and dynamic-resolution layers, letting you drag out selection rectangles or create pixel selections by color. Double click for magic-wand style selection of neighboring pixels of the same color, or right-click to select all document or layer pixels of the same color as the chosen pixel. Changing the color chooser color while an area selection is active lets you quickly tweak document colors.

The animation timeline recently added to Pixelmash has also seen some useful upgrades. Now instead of having to copy and paste individual keyframes when you make a new animation frame, you can simply duplicate an existing frame, including all the keyframes in all layers. And now you can simply drag keyframes to reorder them!

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Have feedback? Come chat about it on our Discord (link via https://nevercenter.com/discord )

Pixelmash 2024.2 is out now, including a new feature that lets you easily record your pixel art creation process as a time-lapse video to share! It’s perfect for creating media to promote your work on social media or YouTube. Also in this release are a bunch of handy workflow improvements, including being able to set custom grid line spacing, being able to use up and down keyboard arrow keys to increment/decrement input field values, and more!

New in 2024.2:

• Built-in time-lapse screen recording
  
• Open recent file menu
  
• Pressing up and down on your keyboard will now increment/decrement values in most numerical input fields
  
• Custom grid line spacing setting in View menu
  
• You can now pan in the preview window
  
• Various bug fixes
  

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