Aseprite Tutorials

Tutorials by Users

Sometimes pixel-artists want to share their magical knowledge to the world. And we are grateful that they use Aseprite for this:

Thanks to Adam

Thanks to Mort

Thanks to Sadface

Thanks to JebbyGD

Common tasks and questions

Animation

• Move several cels using Move tool (2)
• Change Preview animation speed with right-click on Play button
• Set loop section
• Backward/reverse animation loop
• Create animation tags/tag frames
• Animated preview
• Copy cels with drag-and-drop
• Copy cels with drag-and-drop outside the animation range
• Remove several layers and frames
• Enable red/blue onionskin tint
• Change onionskin extension/number of frames (2)
• Change cel opacity in several frames

Color/Palette

• Copy/cut/paste/clear colors (2)
• Edit palette colors with relative mode/sliders
• Create a color gradient
• Reverse colors
• Sort colors by Luminance
• Drag-and-drop colors
• Pin and move foreground color selection popup
• Remap indexes after modifying the color palette (2)
• Create a palette from RGB sprite
• Load a palette preset in Aseprite v1.0
• Painting with index 0/transparent color in a transparent layer
• Reduce a color palette
• Dark and light a pixel color on a RGB sprite

Save/Export

• Add padding/border/margin in exported Sprite Sheet
• Save as gif file

Misc

• Create new brush from selection or using Ctrl+B
• Flip the whole sprite
• Rotate a selection

User Interface

• Set colors in timeline elements
• Set grid size from selection or by numbers (2)
• Set default checked background colors
• Copy tabs using drag-and-drop with Ctrl or Alt keys
• Drag-and-drop tabs
• Enable 'Use native mouse cursor' experimental feature
• Report a crash/memory dump on Windows
• Locate configuration file

Demos

• Canvas size options/buttons
• Brush shortcuts and modes
• Difference between Continuous/Discontinuous layer modes
• (Bezier) Curve tool with zoom in/out while drawing
• Auto select option in Move tool
• Zoom in/out in an huge sprite + transparent pixel grid (2)
• Contour and polygon tools
• Ink modes
• Selection modes (replace, addition, subtraction)
• Pixel-perfect algorithm
• Replace Color in indexed mode, drag-and-drop from a color selector (2)
• Filter modes (in current cel, every cel in current layer, every cel in current frame, all cels) (2)
• Fill with a pattern using a custom brush an paint-bucket tool