As much as I love Photoshop, I also like to try new things every once and awhile. I never was a huge fan of GIMP though, but a little app called Pixen has given me hope in the area of open source image editing.

From the site:

“Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It’s designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it’s great for artists of all types: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it’s Free!”

After sketching a few things it immediately became apparent that it is much better for smaller simpler tasks as its features and function don’t go quite as deep. Sometimes Photoshop is definitely over kill, and now, you have a solution.

Download Pixen 3 Today.