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**PixiEditor** is a Pixel art editing software. Create beautiful sprites for your games, animations (coming soon!) and edit images. All packed in eye-friendly dark theme.
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## About PixiEditor
Want to create beautiful pixel arts for your games? PixiEditor can help you! Our goal is to create fully open-source, fast and feature rich pixel art creator.
### Familiar interface
Have you ever used Photoshop or Gimp? Reinventing the wheel is unnecessary, we wanted users to get familiar with the tool quickly and with ease.

### Lightweight
Program weighs only 3.3 MB! Already have .NET 5 installed? Download installer and enjoy saved space.
### Active development
PixiEditor started in 2018 and it's been actively developed since. We continuously improve code quality to ensure the best experience and performance.
## Installation
**Or**
Follow these instructions to get PixiEditor working on your machine.
1. Download the .exe file from [here](https://github.com/flabbet/PixiEditor/releases)
2. Open installer
3. Follow installer instructions
## Featured content
### PixiEditor 0.1.4 Trailer
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKnXBUY0Pqk)
### Pixel Art Timelapse - "Bog Landscape" | PixiEditor
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzC-wy6HCB8)
### Gallery
Check out some pixel arts made with PixiEditor [here](https://github.com/PixiEditor/PixiEditor/wiki/Gallery).
## Support
Struggling with something? You can find support in a few places:
* Check out [documentation](https://github.com/flabbet/PixiEditor/wiki)
* Ask on [Discord](https://discord.gg/qSRMYmq)
* Open new [Issue](https://github.com/flabbet/PixiEditor/issues)
* Check out [FAQ](https://github.com/PixiEditor/PixiEditor/wiki/FAQ).
## Building from source
### Software Requirements
* .NET 5
* Visual Studio
### Instructions
1. Clone Repository
2. Open PixiEditor/PixiEditor/PixiEditor.sln in Visual Studio
3. Build solution
## Contributing
Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/flabbet/PixiEditor/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
## License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE.md](https://github.com/flabbet/PixiEditor/blob/master/LICENSE) - file for details