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Aseprite is a pixel art software for macOS, Linux and Windows with which you can create animated sprites and graphics. Aseprite is much used tool in the pixel art and indie game development scene where the tool allow designers to gets down to the nitty-gritty and create amazing pixel sprites and animations.

Piskel is a free, web-based graphics editor designed specifically to create pixel art and animations. It’s an excellent choice for artists looking for a free, online pixel editor that provide the basic functinallity and features to create great pixel art. Piskel features a clean interface that is easy to use and provides real time playback which of animations made from sprites.

Pyxel Edit is a pixel art drawing application designed for working with pixel art and tiles. With Pyxel Edit you can game levels from tiles of sptrites. Create, import and export tilesets and level data directly from the editor and use them in your game. The tiles can flipped, rotated and mirrored allowing designers to quickly mock and create game levels and necessary data.

The world most popular raster graphics editor, Adobe Photoshop is used for photo editing and graphic design professionals to make their creations come to life. Photoshop is developed and published by Adobe Inc, and is available for iOS, macOS and Windows.

Glimpse is an open source image editor based on the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.10.18. The goal of Glimpse is to experiment with new ideas and expand the use of free/libre software. Glimpse brings a new name and logo, a cleaner UI, and fewer "easter eggs" make an already amazing open source software package feel more enterprise-ready.

Akira UX is a free an open-source graphic design software built with Vala and GTK. The application offers a fast approach to UI and UX Design, mainly targeting web designers and graphic designers. Akira UX is available for all major Linux distributions, and through the elementary OS AppCenter.