Fresh news

13 September 2009 - Grafx2 2.1

Version 2.1 is out!

Short outline: (full)

• GUI improvements, better skinability
• Optional grid lines in zoomed view (Alt-Shift+G)
• Brush container
• File formats: C64 and Atari NEO, loading of 24-bit PNG images
• Hold Shift to force horizontal/vertical mouse movement. With line tool: also 45° and ISO angles.

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20 August 2009 - Grafx2 birthday contest

The entries!

16 July 2009 - Grafx2 birthday contest

Hello world! This month (the exact date was lost, sorry :)) is GrafX2 13th birthday. We want to celebrate it with a little challenge. The idea is that you draw a picture and send it to us (send them to grafx2@googlegroups.com). Of course the picture should be made entirely in grafx2. There is no other constraint : you can go for strict pixelart (using only the freehand tool), scene style graphics, isometric, sprites, or freestyle using all the advanced effects (transparency, smear, ...). You have 1 month to come up with something, up to the 16th of August. Then, there will be a vote to select the winner pictures. There is nothing to win, the idea is just to have fun and create some great pictures with grafx2. Of course, your pictures will be included in grafx2 gallery page on the website... that is, if we like them and if you agree :)

Please relay this info to anywhere you feel appropriate so we get many entries.

What is GrafX2 ?!

It's a bitmap paint program that allows you to draw in more than 60 video resolutions (from 320x200, including most of the standard Amiga resolutions : 320x256, 320x512, 640x256, 640x512, etc... provided your videocard knows how to handle them). It was written to run under DOS, but the code you'll find here was modified to use SDL and modern operating systems.

This program is dedicated to everybody who knows what a single pixel is. Its layout is not very different from the famous Deluxe Paint or Brilliance, so it will be quite easy to handle it if you know at least one of these programs. If you aren't used to the art of drawing with up to 256 colors, it will be a little more difficult for you, but you should give it a try (or more, because most of the power of this program won't show up on the first try). Then, you might eventually like to draw the oldskool way with GrafX2.

The program is perfectly operational and offers all the useful tools you can expect from a bitmap paint program (if they aren't already available, they will be). We took most of the best ideas from other paint programs and added many other original and very useful tools, just to try to bring you the best 256-color bitmap paint program for PC. It's up to you to decide if we have succeeded, so please download it, try it and make your own opinion. By the way, it's FREEWARE and open source !

More details

If you want to learn more, don't forget to read the user's manual. And if you want to help us with all this messy code and hunt some bugs, please get started by reading the developper's documentation.

Want to see more before downloading ? Just go to the gallery for screenshots and pictures created with the program. If after all that you are still unsure why Grafx2 is better than other editors, have a look at the KeyFeatures page.

Some statistics

Click on this icon if you are using Grafx2. It will count users and help us to be on the top of the userchart :)