pixelate

pixelate is all about having the tools I need to draw the graphics I need; I've grown quite tired of learning new advanced tool-sets and interfaces (read PhotoShot and others) and also I want the power to customize exactly the information I need in a pixel art creation program, eg. hot spots.
I'm strongly influenced by the legendary DPaintIV painting program for the 80's Amiga computer.
Features:

• Fullscreen editing in the resolution of the target game
• 8-bit palletized images
• BMP (and maybe PNG) importing
• Hot spots
• File format supports animated sprites with preview
• Zooming
• Current editing color shows not only in the palette, but also beneath the mouse cursor, ON the edited image which is great for pixel-editing! I can't image why "professional" programs like PhotoShop and PaintShopPro lack this hard-to-live-without simple feature
• Any dimension images, different for each animation frame
• Stencil editing
• Airbrushes a la DPaintIV
• All the basic geometric tools: lines, rectangles, ellipsis (filled and nonfilled)
• Undo/redo at least one tool-editing step
  
• Grab and move the surface w/ right mouse button
• Control key select the color beneath mouse cursor as current color
• Palette with "linear shading": create shaded series of colors easily

Right now, about half of the above features has been implemented. What is lacking is:

• Hotspots
• Animations
• Airbrushes
• Palette
• Stencil
• File format
• BMP import

I'm working on the file format for the moment. After that, the palette is probably the first thing I do.