Affinity

Sprite workflows

• Drawing individual pixels
  • Press “Y” for the Pixel Tool
    • (in the UI, this is a sub-menu of the Paint Brush Tool (B))
• Extract a sprite (including transparent pixels) to a new layer or file
  • Select the sprite with the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M)
  • Make sure the layer with the sprite is selected. If it isn’t, Copy won’t be enabled, just Copy Merged.
  • Copy the sprite.
• Extract a sprite (including transparent pixels) to a file
  • Add the “Slice” tool to the toolbar
  • Draw a slice rectangle
  • Enable Window → General → Slices to see the slices you’ve taken
  • You can now save individual slices or all of them at once
  • Note: you cannot use this to extract the sprite into a new layer.