Export

Pixaki has a wide range of options for exporting and sharing your artwork. To share a project, press on the share button from the canvas screen, or select Export from the project menu on the gallery.

Formats

The options for the different export formats are described below.

Pixaki

If you’re collaborating with another Pixaki user, sending them a .pixaki file is the way to go. If you want to share or backup multiple files at once, it’s best to do this from Files.

Images

You can share all of the frames of animation as individual images. If your project isn’t animated, this will share a single image.

Options: frame range, format, magnification.

Sprite sheet

If you’re creating a game, you can export your animation as a sprite sheet. Each frame of animation will be placed in order — from left to right then top to bottom — on a single image containing all of the individual frames.

Options: frame range, format, columns.

Movie

Use this option to export your animation as a QuickTime movie file.

Options: frame range, codec, magnification.

Animated image

Use this option to created an animated image file. Animated images made with Pixaki are always set to loop forever.

Options: frame range, format, magnification.

Aseprite

Aseprite is a popular pixel art editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can share your Pixaki project as an Aseprite document, maintining all the layer and cel information. You can also import Aseprite projects back into Pixaki using the “Open” menu.

Photoshop

You can share your artwork as a PSD to import as a layered document in apps like Photoshop, Pixelmator, and Procreate. When you share a document with multiple frames, each frame will be put into a group in the PSD. You can also import PSDs back into Pixaki using the “Open” menu.

Options

Depending on the format selected, you’ll be presented with options for the exported file.

Frame Range

Here you can choose to either export all the frames of animation, or just the currently selected frame.

Format

When exporting as a static image, you’ll be able to choose to export as a PNG, TIFF, or JPEG-2000 file. When exporting an animated image, you can choose between GIF and animated PNG. All of the available formats are optimised for pixel art.

Codec

When exporting as a movie, you can specify the video codec. H264 is compatible with most software on most platforms. HEVC is a more efficient codec, but is less compatible.

Magnification

Usually when an image or video is shared online, if it’s small it will end up appearing blurred because it’s being scaled up using linear scaling. The magnification option in Pixaki, however, uses a nearest neighbour scaling algorithm, which means that the artwork will appear crisp. If the resulting output will be too small for sharing on social media, you’ll see a warning at the bottom of the options screen.

Columns

You can control the number of columns when sharing as a sprite sheet. The number of rows will be dependent on the number of frames and the number of columns.