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Spectrum Next Paint

Tools

Tool Options

Size: 1 px

Brush shape

Pixel-perfect drawing

Spray density: 18

Filled shapes

Fill style

Gradient direction

Gradient bands: 16

Retro dither blend

Dither style

Mirror horizontally Mirror vertically

Marquee mode

Text

Size: 16 px

Spacing: 0 px

Line height: 125%

Font

Style

Selection

No selection

Zoom: 2x

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Load project Load NXI image Load NXP palette

Show grid Show preview Show layers Show colour cycles Show sprite tools

Tilemap editor

Ready

Image

Colour mode

NXI byte order

Sprites

Palette

LMB

RMB

4-bit palette bank

Unique colours used1

transparent?

Edit colour 1

R0

G0

B0

Files

No export folder set, falling back to Downloads

Open & import

Load project Load SPR Load NXI Load NXP Import palette

Save project files

Embed palette in NXI

Export pattern data

Sprite Mode

Enable 16×16 sprite patterns

Sprite colours

Frames

Sheet columns

Frame 1 / 8

Current frame colours1 / 256

Current frame palette offset

Pattern grid colour

Active frame border

Onion skin underneath

Onion opacity: 35%

Click a pattern on the canvas to make it current. The solid border marks the active 16×16 frame.

Animation Tester

Start frame

End frame

Advanced frame order (optional)

Frame delay (ms)

Playback

Bounce animation

Transparent preview background

Preview background colour

Ready — frame 1

Grid Settings

Grid width

Grid height

Grid colour

Grid opacity

0% 28%

Preview

Zoom: 200%

Layers

Opacity 100%

Colour Cycling

Animation name

Enabled

ms 160

Palette indexes

No colour cycle selected.

Import Palette

No palette loaded.

Start import at palette index

Gradient Editor

Stop

Position: 0%

Colour from palette

New Image

Image name

Colour mode

NXI byte order

Width

Height

Canvas Size

Width

Height

Anchor

Image Size

Resize by

Width

Height

Width %

Height %

Keep proportions

Paste Image

Clipboard image

Zoom 100%

Canvas preview

Zoom 100%

Palette handling

Conversion

Palette start index

Preserve colours already used on the canvas

No clipboard image loaded.

Import Image

Source

Zoom 100%

Converted

Zoom 100%

Colour mode

Conversion

Palette start index

Transparent colour

No image loaded.

Import Image

Modern image Atari ST image

Modern supports PNG, GIF and JPEG. Atari ST supports Degas Elite PI1/PI2/PI3 and NeoChrome NEO files.

Keyboard shortcuts

B

Pencil

E

Eraser

L

Line

R

Rectangle

O

Ellipse

G

Fill

I

Eyedropper

T

Text

V

Move Tool

S

Spray Can

M

Marquee

Ctrl+Z/Y

Undo / redo

Ctrl+C/X/V

Copy, cut, paste marquee

Delete

Delete marquee selection

Space

Hold to pan the canvas

About Spectrum Next Paint

Spectrum Next Paint is in development by Gary Pinkett.

I hope other developers find this tool useful 😊

Follow Gary Pinkett on X: @STompyRR