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Learnt just now that a theme can have multiple modes 👀

That I love you

Using the Eraser + Background Color to replace colors more easily. That and reference layers lol

i taught you the secret knowledge of reference layers 😎

alt to rotate circles changed my life

Ctrl-R replaces colour, it's so handy!

One of my favorite things for big projects is the slice tool along with an “export all slices” script. It definitely saves a lot of time!

Scripts! I found one not so long ago to export each layer as a seperate png. I should have looked into that waaaay sooner!

a cool thing I noticed that not many people know about was that when creating a new file, it will default to the dimension of the image on the clipboard if you have one copied.

That the layer labels can be color coordinated. My mess of layers feels so much more manageable now

Not quite years - but I learned that pixel art is amazing and supposed to be fun thanks to Aseprite 😆

how to pronounce aseprite

A year ago, i found out that i could copy and paste an image directly to aseprite without creating a new file, aseprite does that automatically.

📋🫶 and in the beta version you should be able to drag and drop images directly from the browser 👀

That the recolor & outline tools share the same "all/selected" toggle. I kept unintentionally outlining a bunch of other layers & having to fix it afterwards... I was wondering how that kept happening :') I use recolor on "all" & outline on "selected" so constantly having to swap it is a pain...

ctrl+scroll on layers&cells to get a preview of each cell. Occasionally very useful :p luv u aseprite btw u changed my life

The outline tool, I'd manually outline my sprites until someone told me about shift+O 🙈

That you have a "flip whole canvas" command you can keybind. I had just been selecting a whole column of cells and flipping them any time I needed to check my work!

Don’t tell @helmll.bsky.social that you are flipping your canvases 😬

WHATS THE POINT

Oh yes, Sprite > Rotate Canvas > Flip Canvas Horizontal/Vertical 🙏 Someday we'd like to add a Preview with these effects (to check the flipped result in real-time, without modifying the undo history) 🥲

Reference layers! Incredibly useful for turning high-resolution animations into pixel art.

Layer > New > New Reference Layer from File is great, needs a lot of love: referencing external files without including the content in the .aseprite file, referencing external gif/videos, and better control/transformation of the floating layer as an object (scale/skew/rotate/etc.)

That I should've switched to using Aseprite a lot sooner than I did 😭

The lasso fill tool exists. It really changed my workflow

🤠 You have two: 1) the Contour tool (D key) my favorite, or 2) using the Lasso tool (Q key) and then the F key (Edit > Fill) to fill the selection.

That the undo history is session based, so technically if you start and finish an artwork in one session ... You can go all the way back to where you started, and then "redo" while recording for a speedpainting (speedpixeling?) recording.

idk if there's a better way for when i want to find and change a single colour across the entire canvas i add all colours to the palette, switch to indexed colour mode then unlock palette and change the colour i want with the picker and the change is reflected onto the canvas as well

probably using Shift+R (Edit > Replace Color) with the "All" option might do the job (in next versions we'll add an "Apply" button along "OK/Cancel"):

Learning the Convolution Matrices changed my life.

Dither patterns for color modes, slept on that feature for a long while 😅

The Sprite > Color Mode > More Options? The Floyd-Steinberg Error Diffusion has a "Amount" slider to do different levels of dithering: