> I build my own OS based on a debian minimal server thank you very much I dunno why, but this comment really reminded me of the navy seal pasta. > I mean gimp team tried to reinvent the wheel and made it square in a nutshell in order to pretend they aren't like photoshop, it's obvious, and that's lame This much we can agree on. I never really cared for gimp; always tried to get in to it, and pretty-much learned how to do anything it's capable of. But I just can't shake the feeling that it's akin to typing out messages in Morse-code, when there's a perfectly good smartphone sitting *right there* (photoshop). > You can select multiple layers in krita btw, photoshop like, so it's not about copyrights True; there goes my benefit-of-the-doubt guess, I guess. > Photoshop is the gold standard period, there's no fucking debate Absolutely; but we're talking about free alternatives, yeah? > And no, if you think pixel art is just exporting vectors to low res png you got everything wrong my friend. And no I won't resort to making vector squares to mimick bitmaps that's lame, that's like mimicking pixels with cubes in blender, that's total retard approach See, there's a fundamental miscommunication going on, here. From my initial reply, I thought you were simply making "8-bit style art"; *not* ***literally*** making super tiny bitmaps to render directly in to, what I can only surmise is, the framebuffer itself. In this specific case, yes: my approach is a bit like shooting a mosquito with a cannon. If you're making games like Bro-Force or Starbound: I still, resolutely, stand by my opinion. Vectors are infinitely scalable *and* mutable: there's a benefit to that.