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Tilf

Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential drawing tools, live preview, undo/redo, and export options.

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  • Windows
  • Mac
  • Linux
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Features

  1.  Live Preview
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  No registration required
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Undo and redo
  7.  Auto-saving
  8.  Python-based
  9.  Drag and Drop
  10.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  11.  Pixel Art
  12.  Drawing 2D

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  •  470 Stars
  •  25 Forks
  •  2 Open Issues
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What is Tilf?

Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential tools, live preview, undo/redo, and export options.

Features:

  • Drawing tools:
  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Fill (bucket)
  • Eyedropper
  • Rectangle (stroke)
  • Ellipse (stroke)
  • Canvas:
  • New image with custom dimensions
  • Zoom 1–50x (mouse wheel or slider)
  • Editable background color (alpha supported)
  • Optional grid with customizable color
  • Clear canvas
  • Workflow:
  • Undo/Redo with history up to 50 states
  • Drag & drop images to open
  • Real-time preview in a side dock (you can move it wherever you want)
  • Import/Export:
  • Open PNG, JPEG/JPG, BMP
  • Export to PNG (with or without transparency), JPEG/JPG, BMP
  • Handy details:
  • Hold Shift while drawing rectangles/ellipses to constrain to squares/circles
  • Grid is shown when zoom (cell size) is at least 4