I can see the frames that my student has previously been working on to the left, but work is not found in the middle drawing area. Exporting and importing works, but it just happened randomly for her.

I have been working on a little project using Piskel, which is a great tool by the way, and I needed to export as a GIF. A few days ago it worked fine, but today (1/1/2022) when I tried to do that today, it gets stuck on "Building Animated GIF" but never actually makes the GIF. I've only noticed this problem on the Web Version, not the Offline Editor.

When a sprite is not square the preview on the gallery looks really bad:

We should center the image, and have a less contrasting background (with regards to the actual background of piskelapp.com, which is pretty dark).

I'm trying to export this piskel as a gif file. It's 65 frames long and 150 by 125 px. I've had no trouble exporting them as gif files before, but this one freezes when I press export and crashes. I've tried exporting it as other files, but my computer doesn't support it. Is it the file that's the problem? Or the site?

If you name your sprite an blank name, it crashes. I would implement something that requires you to put at least one character in the name to prevent this.

From @captainbrosset on April 28, 2015 13:35

The gallery page seems zoomed in somehow. I have tested this on Chrome and Firefox, and the layout is all messed up.

The logout link wraps on the second line, and the create button is misaligned. Also, the fonts are all very big. And the category links are above the screenshots, not in the left-hand sidebar.

I've verified that my browser wasn't zoomed in (cmd+0).

It may be due to the retina display.

Copied from original issue: juliandescottes/piskel#274

Bom dia a todos !
Fui fazer uma alteração no meu nome cadastrado e inserir um avatar e esta mensagem apareceu. Agora o meu nome de perfil está como "nenhum". Como posso proceder para corrigir? Gostaria de colocar "Vitória de Cássia" antes estava escrito "Vitória de Cássia Rodrigues".
Agradeço a atenção !
Obrigada !

I have no issues on the editor and the import function. But somehow when I save my 14 x 90 (total) sprite which is 1 column and 6 rows, it doesn't save. Sometimes I see it save but disappears in half a second. Sometimes I see the png files in the recycle bin but is corrupted upon restoration.

I recently attempted to change my Piskel account name to one with a special character (ü to be specific) and found that I got an error whenever I tried to include that character in the name (but the regular u worked just fine). I am not sure whether this would be worth changing or not, but I wanted to point it out anyway.

From @guilnunes on September 1, 2014 19:25

Is it possible to create folders to organize the artwork in "My Gallery"?

It would be pretty handy with the growing number of art pieces.

Copied from original issue: juliandescottes/piskel#219

Pretty simple, and mostly just annoying issue.

Zooming in on Firefox seems to zoom at much larger intervals than is really useful. And zooming out from any level will always snap me to 1x scale, which means zooming all the way back in to where I need to be again.

It only seems to occur on Firefox, no idea what it is about the way it scrolls that kills Piskel.

Whenever I use the platform, I can't really check out what others have made on the site without getting a link to their page. Having some sort of way to look at a user's profile from the site's homepage would be nice and let me gain inspiration from other artists using the platform.

I wanted to put this somewhere since I think it would be useful for organizing projects you make in Piskel. Folders. Just nameable folders to put projects in. It'd help with organizing the projects I've made, as I'd like to use them for actual games, and have a bunch of animations for characters, and different areas and setups and such. That's all I wanted to post. Folders. Thanks!

Could you make it so that you can keep signed in on a device? Because currently its a little annoying to have to keep signing in.

I would prefer to have all my sprites publicly assessable, for myself when I'm not signed in and for the people I'm working on projects with. I know there is an option to make sprites public, but it is a bit inconvenient to do for each individual image. I'm wondering if it wouldn't be too difficult to add an option in the settings to have your sprites be made public by default. Thanks.

I am trying to publish a Piskel, but I'm being prevented by doing so and I keep getting messages saying, ERROR. I'm getting really pissed because I'm afraid that my Piskel will erase and all my hard work would be for nothing. I thought Piskel was awesome, until now....
Please Help!!

In the gallery when you have a lot of artwork it gets quite crowded. You should add folders so for example if you you were making a game called pixel bro you could put all of the art for that in a pixel bro folder. Thanks

Hi! I'll show an example.

I'm trying to export shadows with a lower opacity. I have them on its own layer, and made that layer a lower opacity (So the shadow isn't completely full-on black)

Problem is, once I actually export the sprite on a regular PNG file, the shadow no longer holds its see-throughness. Is this a bug?

If not, how do I get around it? I want the shadows to keep their opacity once exported.

your program's amazing, you're doing god's work and this is legitimately the thing that carried me through my ~2 years experience of spriting.
but pleaaaase either revert or add an option to turn off the semi-transparent "ghosts" of the previous and the next frame. i'm using frames as a crutch for easy directional sprites, and now it's just too jarring to sprite like that, it throws me off :( it's a great idea for animation spriting, but even then, inability to turn off this "ghost" impacts polishing frames, too. there's not even a changelog for this (15.1, i believe).

video.zip

I can't destroy an old, delete file of mine. Video demonstration attached. It does that every time.

Hey!

I have been working on a pull request which makes it possible to translate the website.
It is based on babel and pytz libraries. Do I have to add them to the repo?

I don't have too much experience with GAE, but I couldn't make it work by adding the libraries to the GAE on my local machine. It only works when I add the libraries to the lib folder then including those paths. (Like you did with oauth)

Folder structure:

root
  |
  |-- locale
         |
         |-- messages.pot
         |-- en_US
                |
                |-- LC_MESSAGES
                      |
                      |-- messages.mo
                      |-- messages.po
         |-- de_DE
                |
                |-- LC_MESSAGES
                      |
                      |-- messages.mo
                      |-- messages.po
  |-- lib
         |
         |-- babel
                |
                |-- ...
         |-- pytz
                |
                |-- ...
         |-- ....

David

I created my account using Google and my display name has been set to my real name (Piotr Waśko). I wanted to change my avatar to use the default one for now, but the website responded with "Unexpected error".
After playing a little bit with the settings page I found out that when I replaced ś with s in my name everything saved properly.
I suspect that non-ASCII characters are causing the error.

Considering two google users: userA and userB.
userA already has signed in with their account on Piskel.
userB never signed in on Piskel.

If:

• userA logs in on piskel and leaves the sessions open
• on the same browser userB signs in on Piskel for the first time (most likely by having an old unlogged tab of Piskel that was still around)

Them the google account for userB will be merged with userA.

I started using Piskel about 2 years ago. I am now 14 years old and the effort to make something pixel was to produce my own assets in Scratch. I tried to use different tools like Aseprite and Photoshop but they all seemed pretty complicated to me. While I was looking for a tool, came across a YouTube channel and through this channel I got to know Piskel. It was very simple to use and very useful! I loved it and started using it, all this time has passed, and it's still the desktop tool I use the most. I can't say I can do good things, but sometimes I use Piskel even where I need to use Photoshop. You can imagine how hard it is to cut a photo with literally a pixel tool!

About a week ago, while cleaning my computer, I realized that I hadn't used Piskel for weeks and deleted it. But today I'm out of business again. When I entered the site to download it again, a new appeared that the accounts would be deleted. This wasn't a problem as I didn't use Piskel in the browser but I was really upset. It felt as if the house where I spent my childhood was slowly leaving. And when I learned that only one person developed this amazing tool, I wanted to thank you in particular.

You deserve so much appreciation! I love this tool, it's very useful, the interface is very nice and the name is awesome! I just don't want you to give up on Piskel, normally I don't write a message like this to anyone or anything but for some reason it means a lot to me. Piskel like my best friend.

And hey, thank you so much for that amazing creation :)

When I go to the website to create a new sprite, it takes a long time to load. It eventually does, but it gives me an error page.

Public work can be stolen very easily by simply copying the sprite, creating a new sprite in your account and simply pasting it. I found just now while trying to look for potential bugs and I came across this bug within a few minutes

Hello! So I recently changed my display name on Google, and when I went to piskel, I had a different account. First thing that came to mind: sign out then in. When I tried that, it went to that account. link to the old account: https://www.piskelapp.com/user/6405106893848576 New Account: https://www.piskelapp.com/user/5812215876157440 I have no idea why, but it just happened randomly. Please help!

so, about the problem. On browser "Puffin" I can't use Piskel because I can't see my sprite and get in my Google account. But that's not general.

On browser "Safari" I can't use Piskel. Can't skip that notice about bugs. Early(months ago) I could skip it and draw. Now I can't skip that! Why? How to fix that? I want Export MY SPRITE!

When I click either or, I get these two popups "Sorry! Unexpected error Oops. Something bad happened on our side. If you can reproduce this error, please file an issue on GitHub." and " Error: Server Error
The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds."

Hi, I used Piskel a couple of years ago for game deving. Really liked the tool, so am offering pro bono translation of the site FAQ page. I could do UI too if needed. Don't know if the system @david-szabo97 proposed got implemented or not, so I'm not sure how this would work.

So about two weeks or so ago I used Piskel to create a massive, detailed drawing of a character, not necessarily as a sprite for a game or anything, rather something more like a digital drawing you'd see from an artist on Twitter. I'm talking 780 x 1385 resolution, 12 layers, tons of colors, etc. It's a huge sprite, at least for Piskel. Recently I've been trying to make it public and change its description to make it easier to show to people, but I have been unable to because of...well, you read the title. I get a 500 server error any time I click on the little "view" option that shows up underneath each sprite when hovering over them. I am unable to make said changes to its visibility, even using the publicity toggle/description box within the sprite editor itself. It doesn't seem to work.

I'm definitely aware that the program was not built to support or handle sprites that are as complicated like this and that it would've made more sense to use a different art program that's better suited for drawing this type of image like Photoshop or Procreate but...

(a. I don't have the money to spend on purchasing those programs (I also don't have an apple device/tablet to run Procreate on anyways)

(b. I am already extremely familiar with Piskel's simplistic and intuitive interface from several years of various game design summer camps and courses

So I'd appreciate if this issue was fixed, at the very least. I'd like it if Piskel was more powerful and more supportive of larger images in general, but I can understand if that would be too difficult to address.

Wish there was a 'new feature request' category, but anyhow that's not my request. I would like to see subdivision ruler or grid within the grid, so drawing buildings, walls, etc can all line up and entire 'maps' can be exported.

When I save a sprite (which in the drawing editor is just the sprite on no background), it saves on a white background. It is possible to save it without a background / transparent background?

Thanks!

How do you see other people's animations when it is public?

From @guilnunes on April 30, 2015 13:43

I think it might be useful to have:
On the gallery screen, add a checkbox on the image thumbnails, so you can use actions on multiple images, like:

-delete many images
-make public/private
-export as (png,gif,etc)

Or if possible in the future:
-move to a folder
-make the folder private/public

Copied from original issue: juliandescottes/piskel#279

I would much prefer if it didn't intensify as you used it. It seems to go from the original color to white almost immediately unless you do it very quickly, which makes it impossible to control. I don't really see what the point of having it intensify like that is. I would find it a lot more useful if it either didn't intensify, or did so much less quickly. Maybe add a slider to determine how fast the lightening effect ramps up.

Hello,

I wanted to text some sprites I made and rather than downloading them on my computer, emailing them to myself to save to my phone before texting them I though it would be simplest to download directly to my phone. However, they're too squished to access between the ads and profile inforation and when I rotated the screen my creations didn't load at all!

Just thought I'd share in case it's an easy fix :)

When you click on create sprite it says Sorry! Page not found.

So I just came back on piskel after a looooong break. And piskel doesn't support account anymore ...

Well, first of all thx for making a local version, that's cool.

I suppose all the the data from old accounts are dead ? Or is there any way to retrieve it ? That would really make my day.

When doing pixel art on my iPad, I decided to add piskel to my home screen, this means it looks like an app but it just opens the web page directly without any of the annoying tabs and other things like that. It all worked fine, except for the fact that that the icon for the app was just a screenshot of the the web page. This can not be changed by the user. It would show as the piskel logo if you added this line of code in the HTML of the website’s main page.

This would be a really nice, small feature that wouldn’t take long to add that would benefit me and I’m sure many others.
Thanks.

Could you please add autosave to the offline app? i was working in a little animation for tinkers contruct and the app crashed and i lost all the work of the day because i forgot to save it, this feature certainly will save other people minds too.

It deleted all my work and I need help!

I'd like to help translate it into Chinese Simplified.
So do i have the permission to do it? Will you host a chinese translation?
And Google is not available in China, so will you consider some options like "Piskel Account" ? You register via email, that's all.
Also will you consider submitting the app to stores, Google play, App store, f-droid, Ubuntu store ?

I was unable to find a way to browse other (all) people's gallery, not just a single user. Is there any?

My workaround is using Google Image Search "site:piskelapp.com"

Hello all :)

I've been using piskelapp a lot lately to make some patterns to make with artkal beads.

Since I make some artkal projects, something nice would be that if you upload an image, that Piskel uses only a selected palette of your desire.

For example, I have a palette for all artkal colors and I would like that Piskel could use only that palette, instead of the orinigals of the image.

I don't know if you get my point or if this would be to hard to make?

I do not know, thanks!!

Whenever I try to save a sprite, it just saves over the sprite that was already in the Gallery, so there's always only one piskel project in my Gallery, the one that most recently saved. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Thanks.

Something useful would be folders to class the drawings if we have different projects at the same time.

Thanks for reading me.