Pro Motion is a drawing and animation software designed similar to the famous Amiga Deluxe Paint (DPaint).

It is ideal for artists working on detailed and pixel precise graphics as required for mobile systems like smart phones, handheld video game consoles like Nintendo DS or Playstation Portable. It also suites well to create light weight graphics for the web or Macromedia Flash applications.

Use it as sprite and bitmap editor for game creation packages like DarkBasic, Multimedia Fusion / The Games Factory, Impact, Game Maker, 3D GameStudio, Arcade GameStudio, and many more

Besides being a pixel based image and animation editor it also provides a 2d tile map editing system where you can create game worlds while still modifiying graphic portions at the same time.

Current Version: 6.5. Key features include

* New engine to create graphics used as endless tiled patterns
* Rotated ellipse
* Quick selection shortcuts to immediately mask/unmask graphic portions
* Use and create multi colored bitmap fonts
* Continue drawing while animation is running
* Pixel size definition to have sizes like 2x1
* Improved grid display working with zoom settings below 100%
* Advanced masking
* Unlimited undo/redo
* Realtime Tile Map Creation Engine
* Grids engine to use any type of grid including Isometric, Octagon, Box
* Extended Color Palette Editor to Cut, Move, Insert or Modify Ranges of Colors

General

* Extended project management with media types and history
* Simple and alpha transparency
* Keyboard shortcuts can be modified
* File drag and drop
* Fast zoom and preview
* Create or load animations from single image files
* Advanced color reduction
* Cropping and scaling of images/animations
* Configure mouse wheel for different functions
* Unlimited undo
* Layered images and animations
* Pixel size definition to have sizes like 2x1


GameDev Tools

* RGB channel depth can be selected from 222 to 888
* 16 color PNG support
* Optimize tile based graphics for hand held systems that have a limited number of colors per tile like Gameboy Advance etc.
* Support for pattern drawing to create endless textures
* Tile map editor with auto optimization, mirroring, felxible export
* AnimStrip files can be created containing frames side by side in a bitmap, PNG/BMP


Painting

* Round, rectangular or custom brush shapes
* Transparent brushes
* Animated brushes (brush is animation itself)
* Anti-aliasing
* Over 25 different paint modes such as:
o translucent
o brighten
o darken
o shade
o soften
o color cycle
o halftone
o tint
* Create your own paint modes with a built in formula editor
* Shape tools like circle/rectangle
o filled using texture or solid colors
o hollow with different dot spaces
* Standard tools like
o (poly)line (filled, unfilled)
o curve
o free, rectangular, polygonal selection, magic wand
o spray can
o text using all installed Windows fonts and self defined bitmap fonts
* Flood filling using solid color or different gradient filling methods with 2 dither methods (ordered/random)
* Continous and single dot painting
* Up to 16 different free customable gradients
* AnimPainting to flip frames WHILE drawing


Drawing Aids

* Masking based on masked pixels or colors (stencil) including quick selection
* Grid to snap the brush to while drawing
* Scaleable zoom grid to create any type of grid including isometric, octagon or box grids
* Light table to lay different keyframes of an animation upon another to be displayed with different brightnesses. This effect is also called onion skinning.
* User defined brush grip position
* Use an image as fixed background
* Simultanous display of zoomed and original image
* Full screen mode
* Scaled display of animations while playback
* Onscreen resizeable brush container to work with different brushes
* Display of position coordinates and dimensions
* Wide range of DPaint-shortcuts (Amiga and PC)
* Draw symmetric images with a special symmetry drawing tool
* Lock mouse movement for precise positioning


Brush Tools

* Single color, text or custom brushes selected from an image part
* Support for animated brushes (select an animation as brush)
* Rotate (90°, 180°, free with real time display)
* Mirror
* Resize (free or proportional stretching)
* Outline with color
* Shrink for one pixel row
* Use a brush for pattern filling
* Load/save (anim)brushes
* Minimize a brush or animated brush to their optimal width and height (sprite optimizer)
* Place your brushes into a brush container for parallel use


Animating

* Use animated brushes (brush is an animation itself)
* Different delay values for each frame or FPS delay
* Several playback modes (pingpong, loop, play...)
* Scaled animation playback
* speed modification during playback
* Over 14 scaleable transition effects like
o fade in/out, fade over
o window shade
o mosaic fx
o dither dissolve
o zooming
o palette animations (cycling)
* Create animations from your drawing steps or color cycled images
* Color cycling while drawing
* Insert/delete/append/copy/revert ranges of frames
* Load/save animation as single images
* Append animations


Color Tools

* Define colors in RGB/HSV-color sheme
* Web color value editing
* Import 24bit graphics with automatic color reduction
* Floating color palette for fast selection and modification
* Create smooth color ramps
* Use gradients to fill objects with different color shades (linear, contour, radial...)
* Create images containing palette based color cycling
* Sort palette by hue, saturation, brightness or color
* Copy to ranges of colors from one table to another
* Color reduction with optimized or custom color palettes including Floyd/Steinberg dithering for best image quality
* Automatically remove unused or duplicate palette colors
* Import color palettes from image files
* Ordered and random dithering
* Use local (frame dependend) or global color palettes
* load/save palette data
* modify contrast, saturation and brightness of a range of palette colors


File Types

* Compuserver GIF89a (.gif)
* Deluxe Paint image (.lbm)
* Dr.Halo CUT (*.cut)
* Amiga Interchange File Format (.iff) / with Anim5 support
* Windows Bitmap (.bmp) up to 24bit
* JPEG (.jpg)
* PC Paintbrush (.pcx)
* Portable Network Graphics (.png)
* Tagged Image (.tga)
* Autodesk Flic (.fli/flc)
* Windows AVI (.avi)
* Sprites (.spr)
* Windows Icon (.ico)
* Windows animated Cursors (.ani)
* Gameboy Cel File (.cel)