pxlart

A pixel art editor for the terminal written in C

pxlart is a pixel art editor written in C using the ncurses library that has vim like keybindings. I got the idea from a bash script called pxltrm.

Dependencies

• ncursesw

Installation

• Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mananapr/pxlart

• Compile using make

cd pxlart && make

• Install

sudo make install

Arch Linux users can use the AUR package.

Keybindings

Key	Function
h j k l	Navigation keys
d/Space	Draw
e	Erase
b	Change Brush
c	Set FG Color
B	Set BG Color
s	Save
o	Load
q	Quit

A note about colors

pxlart uses shell color numbers (0-255) for color input. You can use a script like this to see what number corresponds to what color.

Image Export

Saved projects can be exported to image formats using the mkppm utility included with pxlart.

A saved project called "foo" will generate a file called "foo.data", which can be passed into the mkppm utility to create "foo.ppm".

mkppm foo.data foo.ppm

The PPM file can then be converted to a PNG file using imagemagick:

convert foo.ppm foo.png

TODO

• Add ability to save and load
• Add ability to export to image formats
• Make PKGBUILD for AUR
• Write a manpage