Slate - Pixel Art Editor

Slate is a bitmap editor available for Linux, Windows and Mac. With Slate, you can:

• Edit images directly
• Use layers
• Create seamless 2D tilesets
• Preview sprite sheet animations

Slate was built for pixel art, and its goal is to simplify the creation of sprites and tilesets by offering a user-friendly, customisable interface.

Downloads

See the releases page for the available downloads.

Documentation

• Getting Started

Notes

• This is a work in progress, but should already be usable. Feel free to report any bugs you find. :)
• The UI is currently designed for the Material style, and will probably look bad when run with others.

Dependencies

• Qt >= 5.11
• https://github.com/mitchcurtis/qt-undo
• https://github.com/mitchcurtis/pickawinner

Building

qt-undo and pickawinner can be cloned and built separately, but they are also available as submodules of Slate's repo, and can therefore be built automatically when Slate is built, by first running the following commands:

cd /path/to/slate-source-dir
git submodule init
git submodule update

Once that's set up, there are two options for building:

Qt Creator

Open slate.pro in Qt Creator, configure the project using a kit with a Qt version that meets the requirement listed in the Dependencies section, and then build it.

Command Line

In-source builds:

cd /path/to/slate-source-dir
/path/to/qt/qmake
make (or nmake/jom on Windows)

Shadow builds:

mkdir slate-build
cd slate-build
/path/to/qt/qmake /path/to/slate-source-dir/slate.pro
make (or nmake/jom on Windows)

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The tileset in the screenshot was taken from the following page:

http://opengameart.org/content/lpc-tile-atlas