Tilf
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Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential drawing tools, live preview, undo/redo, and export options.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
EUPlatforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Features
- Live Preview
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- Undo and redo
- Auto-saving
- Python-based
- Drag and Drop
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Pixel Art
- Drawing 2D
Tags
- sprite-editor
- pyside6
- auto-save
- sprite
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Ju_5 added Tilf as alternative to Godot Pixel Renderer
Tilf information
Developed by
Dario Camonita Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential tools, live preview, undo/redo, and export options.
Features:
- Drawing tools:
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Fill (bucket)
- Eyedropper
- Rectangle (stroke)
- Ellipse (stroke)
- Canvas:
- New image with custom dimensions
- Zoom 1–50x (mouse wheel or slider)
- Editable background color (alpha supported)
- Optional grid with customizable color
- Clear canvas
- Workflow:
- Undo/Redo with history up to 50 states
- Drag & drop images to open
- Real-time preview in a side dock (you can move it wherever you want)
- Import/Export:
- Open PNG, JPEG/JPG, BMP
- Export to PNG (with or without transparency), JPEG/JPG, BMP
- Handy details:
- Hold Shift while drawing rectangles/ellipses to constrain to squares/circles
- Grid is shown when zoom (cell size) is at least 4