With the help of the Makeship team we're releasing this little blushing Aseprite plush campaign today:


[www.makeship.com]Sometimes the pixel artist path is a lonely one. Don't you feel like you need a hug after pushing so many pixels? Maybe some encouraging words? When you need motivation you can ask to this little Aseprite plushie and you will get no answer, but its blushing look will make you hug it, and it will give you love in a silent and soft form.

As an extra feature, if the Aseprite app crashes or doesn't work as expected, you can take the plush and give it a gentle smack on the butt. Then you can continue. But remember to pat it with love from time to time.

Pre-order now here: https://www.makeship.com/products/little-blushing-aseprite-plush

Welcome Asepriters! Today we are finally releasing Aseprite v1.3 as
the stable version replacing the previous v1.2.40. It is already live
on Steam and all our
platforms[www.aseprite.org].

If you were already using v1.3 beta or a release candidate, you can
check out the release notes[www.aseprite.org]
just to check the latest fixes/features. If you came from v1.2, we
recommend you to check out the new features in this post.

The main new feature on Aseprite v1.3 are tilemap layers[www.aseprite.org]:

A summary of other minor features you can find in v1.3 from v1.2:

• Dark theme
• Skew transformation
• Text fields for the transformation
• Resize tags dragging borders
• Repeat field for tags
• Pick colors from the desktop
• Z-index to re-order layers in specific frames
• New mouse/pen stabilizer
• Global user data to sprites
• Ctrl+Shift+Drag mouse Change brush size + drag values customization from Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Drag Value
• Shift+F7: Hide other layers on Preview window
• Space+X/Space+H (flip horizontally), Space+Y/Space+V (flip vertically), Space+D (flip diagonally), Space+R (rotate): Flip/rotate custom brushes or tiles
• New scripting capabilities like the canvas widget and tabs

More information in our blog post[blog.aseprite.org]

Hi asepriters! Today a new version is available with several new fixes and some little new improvements:

Aseprite v1.3-rc4

• Fixed regression showing brush & selection preview

Aseprite v1.3-rc3

• Added new z-index property to cels
• Enable panning and zooming for filter window
• Now F2 can rename a layer if a range of frames is not selected
• Change all selected cel properties when we select frames/layers
• Added warning when loading unsupported property type and mark the file as read-only
• Fixed webp export to export one tag correctly instead of all frames
• Improved message error when loading a sequence of png files whose color modes don’t match
• Export Sprite Sheet: Now “Ignore Empty” option works for tilesets too
• Full screen preview hides the preview window if needed

Lua API changes[www.aseprite.org]

Hey there! Today we’ve published the second release candidate v1.3-rc2 with the final fixes for a v1.3 to replace v1.2.40 and avoid as many surprises as possible (as we know that switching from v1.2.40 to v1.3 might bring some problems).

A list of changes in this v1.3-rc2:

• Play subtags + repeats by default. Now playback options are accessible through Frame > Playback submenu
• Added pixel-art Cyrillic script and Maltenese Unicode chars
• Added ability to press a mnemonic key (e.g. Y or N) without modifiers in alerts[www.aseprite.org]
• Added frame duration warnings saving animated GIF files
• Allow recovering sessions from previous Aseprite versions
• Fixed regression pasting images outside the canvas limits
• Fixed rotation inaccuracy with 90°, 180° or 270° degrees
• Fixed 8 Connected Fill escapes grid with "Stop At Grid" checked
• Now New Palette from Sprite creates colors when alpha is less than 16
• Removed the marching ants effect from Timeline after paste
• Fixed avoid changing grid settings from Edit > Preferences if they aren't modified
• Fixed grid misalignment when zooming out
• Fixed a rendering bug using Loop through tag frames option in Onion Skin
• Fixed crash right-clicking play button if the preview window is hidden
• CLI: Fixed bug saving tags in file sequences using -save-as "{tag}_1.png"
• Lua: New Plugin:newMenuGroup()[aseprite.org] and Plugin:newMenuSeparator()[aseprite.org] to organize plugin submenus
• Lua: Added KeyEvent.repeatCount[aseprite.org]
• Lua: New opacity/blend mode parameters in Image:drawImage()[www.aseprite.org]
• Lua: More changes[aseprite.org]
• Several other crash fixes and minor UI issues

More details in the forum: https://community.aseprite.org/t/aseprite-v1-3-rc2/17564/1

Hello asepriters! :art: After several months we’re preparing the first release candidate to finally move forward to v1.3 (and leave v1.2 behind :wave: ). If everything goes well (and probably with a couple of extra release candidates) we will finally put v1.3 in the main channel (and the beta channel will be used to bring new features quickly).

Remember to get this update from the beta channel[aseprite.org] right now. A list of changes and fixes in this v1.3-rc1:

• Prefer native file dialog by default on Windows & macOS
  
  • macOS: Added a QuickLook plugin to generate thumbnails and previews
  • macOS: Fixed shortcuts for Edit actions when the native file dialog is displayed
  • You can switch back to the Aseprite file dialog unchecking the Edit > Preferences > Experimental > Use native file dialog option
• Disabled multiple UI windows by default
  
  • You can re-enable it from Edit > Preferences > General > User Interface or Edit > Preferences > Experimental > UI with multiple windows
• Added support to load/save QOI files
• New “Copy Path” option right-clicking a tab
• New Repeat field to animation tags
  
  • Added option to play/preview with subtags & repetitions
• Show saved undo state in Edit > Undo History window
• CLI: Added support to save multiple files with --save-as
• New tagname format (--tagname-format) to export JSON data
• Added several missing strings to translate the UI to other languages
• Optimized save operation on files with several/huge tilesets
• macOS: Fixed memory leak in the regular usage of the program
• Fixed general look of the Dynamics popup + added more possibilities to customize themes
• Fixed normal color wheel
• Fixed incorrect BMP file size set during save command
• Fixed generation of non-visible colors using “New Palette from Sprite”
• Avoid color reindexing when duplicate colors in GIF file
• Fixed uninstalling/updating extensions with subdirectories
• Fixed bug where Advanced Mode disabled the Tilemap tool
• Fixed bug when exporting from a sprite with layers that have the same name
• Fixed bug where the FG color changes to the palette entry zero when the eyedropper picks a pixel of mask color
• Fixed spray tool in Indexed mode not handling masked color as expected
• Keep/restore the timeline position for each sprite
• Fixed {duration} field for filename format
• Fixed update Preview Window after pasting Frame
• Lua: New API objects like Dialog:canvas()[aseprite.org], GraphicsContext[aseprite.org], app.theme[aseprite.org], and Timer[aseprite.org]
• Lua: New API to save user & extension properties into objects

This version includes a lot of new scripting capabilities, like the Canvas widget, we hope this will bring new possibilities to extend Aseprite in a near future.

More details in the forum: https://community.aseprite.org/t/aseprite-v1-3-rc1/17224/1

Due a new issue with macOS Ventura, we've made some changes to Aseprite packages on Steam.

If you see the following popup when you try to run Aseprite on macOS, it's highly probably that you've updated your system to macOS 13.0 Ventura. Just press "Move to Trash" button:

Then re-start Steam, and press the Launch button on Aseprite, you might see an error like this:

But in a second try launching Aseprite, Steam will re-install Aseprite:

That should be enough.

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In any case, if you have Aseprite installed and the problem still persists, you can right-click Aseprite and select Manage > Browse local files and delete the Aseprite folder:

Then re-start Steam, and re-install Aseprite. Restarting Steam is important because that leads to re-downloading some metadata about the new version that is available on Steam.

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For more details: https://community.aseprite.org/t/aseprite-update-for-steam-on-macos-ventura/16229

Today we’re releasing Aseprite v1.2.31 and v1.3-beta8 with several bug fixing, macOS M1 chip support, and improved Linux support (e.g. drop files inside the window & several fixes to use multiple windows).

Aseprite v1.2.31

• Windows: Include aseprite-thumbnailer[www.aseprite.org] on Aseprite installer by default
• Windows: Added new icon for main window when Windows DPI=150%
• Windows: Fixed possible crashes at exit if some events are still queued when we close the app
• macOS: New Universal binary (including Intel and M1 code in the same .app bundle)
• macOS: Fixed glitch moving mouse
• Linux: Added support to drag-and-drop files from the File Manager to Aseprite
• Lua: Fixed error iterating layers named with numbers
• Lua: Fixed clipping when drawing a cel image into other image
• Lua: Added filenamechange event to Sprite.events
• Lua: Dialog:modify() supports combobox options
• Added automatic crash reporting on Windows & macOS if the user wants to share them

Aseprite v1.3-beta8

• Fixed Shift+N to add new layers in the correct place
• Linux: Fixed several bugs with some Window Managers
• Lua: Fixed Dialog.bounds values when a dialog is closed on multiple windows UI

More information in the forum[community.aseprite.org]

Today we are releasing the new Aseprite v1.3 which includes more than 3 years of work! Available in the beta branch on Steam[www.aseprite.org].

• New Tilemap layers editor
• New dark theme
• Added skew to selection
• Added text fields for the transformation
• Added global user data to sprites
• Added support to resize tags with drag & drop
• Added support to pick colors from the desktop
• Added F11 (⇧⌘F on macOS) to toggle full screen mode
• Added HSL palette gradients
• Added support to move the Preview window outside the main window
• Window resizing in real-time
• Rewritten GIF encoder/decoder

More info in the community site of Aseprite[community.aseprite.org].

Minor patch for Aseprite v1.2.26 fixing some regressions:

• Fixed Shift+Rectangular Marquee doesn't start Square Aspect
  
• Fixed reference layers cannot be moved/resized
  
• Fixed "Simple Crosshair" cursor when switching to Eraser tool