
An option to switch between bilinear (blurry) and nearest-neighbor (non-blurry) scaling A button to toggle anti-aliasing for painting Huh? I'm running the latest stable version of Paint.Net from the official website, 4.0.5, and it has: So.does anyone have a recommendation? I'm going to be using this thread to showcase my sprites once I start getting some going. I've never touched or even seen the program in action, but it gets mentioned in almost every discussion of art programs for some reason. Photoshop, in addition to being an expensive piece of commercial software (so by definition outside my budget) is designed for doing things completely unrelated to images that are about as far divorced from my area of interest as possible and if it has any capacity for pixel art this can only be by accident while supporting its other features.

GIMP is and always has been unusable due to its terrible tool layout.

I will not use any program with a setup more complicated than "download this and run the installer" so I don't care if there's some way of fiddling with my new software to make it somehow magically backwards-compatible with old stuff. Older versions were adequate, aside from not allowing me to change the palettes of GIF or 256-color BMP images. I don't know what version number I used to use which worked fine-ish (it's always had issues that prevented it from completely replacing MSPaint for me, even on Vista), I just know the version I tried a couple months ago was garbage. is no longer a good option because the new releases janked up the anti-aliasing disabling and the fill bucket (which is a MUST-HAVE for digital art).

It's been giving me lots of trouble in other areas as well so I think I'm going to be getting rid of it soon. I can't make custom graphics in SMBX because FireAlpaca is just fine with opening and editing GIF images, but refuses to save in that format.
