Edge3

Edge3 is a pixel art editor featuring powerful palette management and animation tools.

It supports both part-based animation and traditional frame-by-frame animation, allowing you to create game-ready sprites and pixel art with flexibility.

Animation

• Create part-based animations by assembling individual sprite parts
• Create traditional frame-by-frame animations
• Switch between part-based and frame-based workflows depending on your needs
• Use onion skinning to reference previous and next frames while editing
• Organize and switch between multiple motions (e.g. walk, attack)

Drawing & Editing

• Pen, eraser, text, Bézier, and various drawing and selection tools
• Right-click to quickly pick colors (eyedropper)
• Right-drag to stamp and duplicate instantly
• Use Ctrl+click to fill and Shift+click to draw straight lines with the pen tool, reducing the need to switch tools while drawing
• Real-time transform of selections (move, scale, rotate)

Color & Palette

• Supports indexed color (with alpha) and RGBA color modes
• Manage and switch between multiple palettes
• Change colors per frame for advanced effects

Efficient Workflow

• View the same file in multiple views simultaneously
• Work with both zoomed-in and full views side by side
• Flip and rotate the view to check visual balance
• Detach views into separate windows for multi-monitor setups

Flexible Customization

• Customize toolbars and keyboard shortcuts
• Remap right-click and mouse wheel actions
• Switch between tabbed and MDI layouts
• Dock or float panels freely

Extensions (Optional)

• A separately distributed optional tool is planned to enable thumbnail previews of Edge3 files in Windows Explorer

Note: Edge3 is based on Edge2, but its workflows and feature set have been redesigned.

          Some specifications and behaviors differ from Edge2.