Features
Generally spoken pro motion is a "pixel pusher" that is working like the
famous drawing packages Deluxe Paint or Brilliance published in the past for
Commodore Amiga systems.
All tools are optimized for image and animation editing at pixel level for graphics
with up to 256 palettized colors per frame.
Please have a look at the following grouped key features.
General features
- Extended project management with media types and history
- Simple and alpha transparency
- Keyboard shortcuts can be modified
- File drag and drop
- Fast zoom and preview
- Effects generator
- Create or load animations from single image files
- Advanced color reduction
- Cropping and scaling of images/animations
- Configure mouse wheel for different functions
- Unlimited undo
- Layered images and animations
GameDev Tools
- RGB channel depth can be selected from 222 to 888
- 16 color PNG support
- Optimize tile based graphics for hand held systems that have
a limited number of colors per tile like Gameboy Advance etc.
- Support for tile painting to create endless
textures
- Tile map editor with auto optimization, mirroring, felxible export
- AnimStrip files can be created containing frames side by side in a bitmap, PNG/BMP
Painting
- Round, rectangular or custom brush shapes
- Transparent brushes
- Animated brushes (brush is animation itself)
- Anti-aliasing
- Over 25 different paint modes such as:
- translucent
- brighten
- darken
- shade
- soften
- color cycle
- halftone
- tint
- Create your own paint modes with a built in formula editor
- Shape tools like circle/rectangle
- filled using texture or solid colors
- hollow with different dot spaces
- Standard tools like
- (poly)line (filled, unfilled)
- curve
- free, rectangular, polygonal selection, magic wand
- spray can
- text using all installed Windows fonts
- Flood filling using solid color or different gradient filling methods with 2 dither methods (ordered/random)
- Continous and single dot painting
- Up to 16 different free customable gradients
- AnimPainting to flip frames WHILE drawing
Drawing Aids
- Masking based on masked pixels or colors (stencil)
- Grid to snap the brush to while drawing
- Scaleable zoom grid to create any type of grid including isometric, octagon or box grids
- Light table to lay different keyframes of an animation upon another
to be displayed with different brightnesses. This
effect is also called onion skinning.
- User defined brush grip position
- Use an image as fixed background
- Simultanous display of zoomed and original image
- Full screen mode
- Scaled display of animations while playback
- Onscreen resizeable brush container to work with
different brushes
- Display of position coordinates and dimensions
- Wide range of DPaint-shortcuts (Amiga and PC)
- Draw symmetric images with a special symmetry drawing tool
- Lock mouse movement for precise positioning
Brush Tools
- Single color, text or custom brushes selected from an image part
- Support for animated brushes (select an animation as brush)
- Rotate (90°, 180°, free with real time display)
- Mirror
- Resize (free or proportional stretching)
- Outline with color
- Shrink for one pixel row
- Use a brush for pattern filling
- Load/save (anim)brushes
- Minimize a brush or animated brush to their optimal width and height (sprite optimizer)
- Place your brushes into a brush container for parallel
use
Animating
- 3d-keyframer to create animations in 3d-space out
of the current brush image to create flying logos,
moving animations or hundred of different transition fx
- Use animated brushes (brush is an animation itself)
- Different delay values for each frame or FPS delay
- Several playback modes (pingpong, loop, play...)
- Scaled animation playback
- speed modification during playback
- Over 14 scaleable transition effects like
- fade in/out, fade over
- window shade
- mosaic fx
- dither dissolve
- zooming
- palette animations (cycling)
- Create animations from your drawing steps or color cycled images
- Color cycling while drawing
- Insert/delete/append/copy/revert ranges of frames
- Load/save animation as single images
- Append animations
Color Tools
- Define colors in RGB/HSV-color sheme
- Web color value editing
- Import 24bit graphics with automatic color reduction
- Floating color palette for fast selection and modification
- Create smooth color ramps
- Use gradients to fill objects with different color
shades (linear, contour, radial...)
- Create images containing palette based color cycling
- Sort palette by hue, saturation, brightness or color
- Copy to ranges of colors from one table to another
- Color reduction with optimized or custom color palettes
including Floyd/Steinberg dithering for best image quality
- Automatically remove unused or duplicate palette colors
- Import color palettes from image files
- Ordered and random dithering
- Use local (frame dependend) or global color palettes
- load/save palette data
- modify contrast, saturation and brightness of a range of palette colors
File Types
- Compuserver GIF89a (.gif)
- Deluxe Paint image (.lbm)
- Dr.Halo CUT (*.cut)
- Amiga Interchange File Format (.iff) / with Anim5 support
- Windows Bitmap (.bmp) up to 24bit
- JPEG (.jpg)
- PC Paintbrush (.pcx)
- Portable Network Graphics (.png)
- Tagged Image (.tga)
- Autodesk Flic (.fli/flc)
- Windows AVI (.avi)
- Sprites (.spr)
- Windows Icon (.ico)
- Windows animated Cursors (.ani)
- Gameboy Cel File (.cel)
- WBMP via WAP export plugin
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