[konidias]

- msPaint for most pixelation
- photoshop for editing photos and drawing artwork (not pixel art)
- animagic for animating, setting transparencies, saving as gif
- hypersnapDX for snapshots, and for saving in pretty much any image format with any settings

I'm siding with the msPaint people here. Photoshop is worse than msPaint for pixeling. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the "color" on msPaint, you just double click a color box and you can select any color of the rainbow. I can usually just use the small palette of colors that it provides and just modify all the colors to the ones I want. That way they are all right there on hand.

Photoshop takes longer for me to load, I have to set the canvas size, the line tool doesn't predraw the line for viewing, although I think the ink dropper is better since you can select any color on your screen, even outside of the program (at least I think you can).

If you don't pixel shade then you are retarded. Unless you're going for a non-pixelized look. Because using the airbrush thing isn't true pixeling. It's a lot easier to shade when you have something like the airbrush that you can apply different pressure to, in order to give it a dark to light effect, but still, no airbrushed sprite is going to look better than one that was totally pixelized.