Open the File menu again, but choose Export As this time. You dont have to fill out every box, but this information will help viewers understand your work more. The app will ask you to fill out some information about the animation. This is an intermediate level Flash tutorial. Tools used are the Rectangle tool, Pencil tool, and Free Transform tool. Now that it’s safe, it’s time to export it as a final image in your chosen format. Right-click on the sequence in the sequence tab, click 'AniZone' to upload this animation to AniZone. Learn how to use Masking, Motion Tweens, and Motion Guide Layers to create an animated pencil drawing a curved line. Open the File menu and choose Save As, and save your file using the default XCF format that GIMP uses.

Both of these are lossless formats that also support transparency, which makes them the perfect choice.īefore exporting, let’s save a copy of your work (although you already should have been saving along the way!). Use the PNG format or the GIF format for proper indexing of your color palette. In order to keep your pixel art looking as crisp as the second you finished it, it’s important to export your image file in a lossless format. JPEG is the most popular image format at the moment, but it’s a lossy format, and saving your pixel art in the JPEG format will change its colors and quite possibly ruin it. How to Export Your GIMP Pixel Art Properly When zoomed out a bit and with the grid, overlay turned off, I can finally tell if the chicken is fully cooked or not. Zoomed back out to 400% and it looks ready to go

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