GraphicsGale

[Jimmy]

GraphicsGale by HUMANBALANCE is a great shareware program specifically designed for pixel art. It has ALOT more features then MSPaint and I have personally benefited greatly from using it.

[size=7][b]Main features[/b][/size]
[b]Animation Graphic:[/b]
Multiple frames for an animation
Multiple layers with an alpha blending
Real-time preview in editing
Onion Skin
Painting tools (Pen, Connect Line, Spline Curve, Rectangle, Oval, Filled Oval, Color Replacer)
Drawing text (Bordering, Character Pitch, Antialiasing)
Selecting tools (Rectangular Selection, Oval Selection, Lasso, Magic Wand, Selection By Color)
Rotate, Stretch, Scroll
Adjust Color, Grayscale, Various Effects
[b]Palette:[/b]
Saves to file, Loads from file
Changes the order of colors
Makes a gradation
Removes unused colors
Unites duplicate colors
Uniforms colors from multiple files
[b]File:[/b]
Batch conversion
GIF optimization*
Confirms a file size and an image quality of JPEG
Outputs an animation as multiple files or a combined file
Imports multiple files as one image
Supports SusiePlugin
[b]Others:[/b]
Acquires an image from a TWAIN
Prints multiple frames
Image Browser
Customizes shortcut keys

You can download a 30day trial version of GraphicsGale [url=\"http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/index.html\"]here[/url].