Alpha Transparency Use
 

So what is y'all's opinion on using alpha transparency on the edges of graphics.

I mean, it is 2009 and everything.

...and 2010 in a couple of days.

aslong as you apply it manually, like define the opacity yourself, then it's fine with me, you make the graphic the same as normal pixel art, it just blends in better ingame. When you used it within a graphic, for water for example, i don't think you can still call it pixel art, as you can't define the exact color of the graphic.

I'm big on it, makes things look a lot nicer 90% of the time. 10% of the time it looks funny... blurry... and it requires a good ol' fashion hard outline.

Pixel art isn't defined anywhere, and it's not like you are forced to use only pixel art on Graal anyway.

I find alpha-blending pretty hard to do with pixel-art because I have to do it with Photoshop and it's not what I pixel in. However I'm not against it if something really needs it.

It's easier to do in Paintshop Pro. I'm sure there's some better tools out there too that are more like Paint but have opacity support. If you find one, please tell me! :D

Paint.NET supports Opacity and can set it itself

Clearly what we need is an online png editor written in gs2

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yes. YES.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1...Structure.html

Go ahead.

No, that would be horrible o_o

Cool for a graffitti system or something :D

Speaking of, Graal needs functions to bind and render textures stored as RGBA values in arrays or something.

Dunno if "need" is a word I'd use. A lot of work for something that would never really be used.

Well that and I don't think the Triforce of Courage is lined up properly with the other Triforces.

Man, I want nothing less than more tools only accessible via the slow, heating-up-my-laptop client with a gold+staff account or whatever. I did not think programs not supporting alpha channels would be a big deal among you professional pixelationers. What is everybody using anyway? I would probably use gimp for elaborate things as a novice, is there any reason that is not feasible or do you just do not like using non-proprietary software?

MSPaint for pixel art (used to it, nice & simple), Photoshop CS2 for non pixel art and adding alpha transparency to pixel art.

same with me.

Adobe Fireworks :)

waaaay better than Photoshop

Depends what you need and/or what you are used to.

mspaint for pixel art
paint.NET for a lot of stuff (opacity, effects, resizing, rotating sometimes, and because of the tools I've been now using for years !)
CS4 Extended, because it's cool, but I really really RARELY use it. But I like the quality work you can do with it.

GIMP 2.6 for all Pixel related graphics.

I got Adobe Photoshop CS4 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS4 and Paint.NET though.

Photoshop cs4
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must've cost you quite some money ;)

Not so much. :D
I got Adobe Master Collection Btw. ^^^^^^^^^^

Im a computha' freak!