Texture Packer is hands down the best sprite sheet generation tool on the market. It has more features than any of the competition and is ready for.

Here’s something for all you art lovers out there. Technology has made pursuing art hobbies much easier.

Instead of spending lots of money on, you can now simply plug in a and have a go at it. For the more persevering bunch, just using the mouse will do as well. Investing money into a graphic tablet is one thing, but what about the right software? Sure, there’s Photoshop, GIMP, Illustrator, and all those other but today, today we’re going to have a look at less used software, who aren’t as popular but still should be getting your attention. Read Also: Created by the Japanese company Systemax Software, SAI is one of the go-to softwares for many indie artists.

It’s a lightweight and compact tool, and unlike other digital painting tools, it doesn’t greedily hog all of your RAM/CPU. It comes with enough tools to create amazing illustrations – the brushes mimicking the texture and flow of the particular tool it was named after (like, for an instance, the pencil tool actually looking like graphite on paper). You can also create personalized color swatches, which makes color selection easier – it keeps the canvas clean, enabling you to keep your focus on the creation alone. Read Also: One of the best things about SAI is its default brush and pens with a variety of settings that you can tweak, and it works really well with drawing tablets. Where it excels, however, is in the way it translates line strokes onto the digital canvas – crisp and clean, which makes it an excellent option for inking, lineart, and colouring. On top of that, with the flexible, adjustable brush settings, you can create your own brushes and personalize them as much as you’d like.

Want this brush to look softer? Want it to react to the pen pressure more sensitively? The sky’s the limit, all you have to do is just experiment around! There is a 31-day trial, and upon expiry, a software license can be bought for $50. What I like about it: • Has textured paper feature • Fringe tool that can be used for shading • Vectoring is really good, especially for “inking” lines • Coloring tools and brushes features are robust • Works like magic with pen tablets • Extremely lightweight, works on most old computers and on stock graphic driver What I don’t: • Inserting text is difficult, you’ll need a different application. • 30-day trial, after which you’ll need to purchase. There are other alternatives that are open source.

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Another Japanese entry, openCanvas was created by PGN Corp. It found its humble beginnings as freeware back in 2000, then moved on to a shareware model a few years later, starting with version 2. It is currently at version 6.0 – with features similar to Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Incredibly lightweight (meaning it won’t hungrily gobble up your RAM/CPU resources like a starved animal), it offers the same broad range of brushes and tools as other commercial competitors, and it has the unique function of recording all your brush strokes, color choices, etc into a single small file which can be replayed! You can share this file with other users, who can then pause the 'recording' at any moment they wish, and even jump in and take the reins – imagine all the possibilities you can try out with this. The brushes can also be tinkered around with to your liking, and the lines translate incredibly crisp and clearly onto the digital canvas. It is best used for lineart and inking, but the coloring aspect of the program doesn’t lag behind.

As you can see, it packs quite the punch, and priced at only $59 dollars with a 120 day trial, it’s difficult to say no!