Outline Tool

Interesting idea, thanks. To me it doesn't seem like something you would do often enough to give it it's own tool though. But if a lot of people would find this useful let me know.

This actually looks like something I would use. It would be useful for certain things, like if I wanted to see if I wanted an outline or not, I could switch between it pretty quickly without having to draw around it a bunch.

Yeah Sho, I use it exactly as you described. It's a fundamental part of my pixel workflow. =)

I second that too, actually that's a very useful function. like the Stroke layerFX on photoshop.

I too would use and appreciate this feature. Seems like it'd be a relatively trivial algorithm to implement, but a huge time saver.

Really wish this was a feature.

I would love this so much - I waste so much time outlining elements in my art.
There should also be an option to select the thickness of the out line - how many pixels and also are those pixels connected on the edges or not.
(eg if the out line is:
XXOO OOX
  XXXOOXX
       XXXX
or:
XOOOOOX
   XXOOOX
         XX

While it would be neat with some image processing operation to do it, it can be done relatively easy, using this technique:


What i'm doing:
* Use magic wand to select select transparency
* selection->inverse selection
* make duplicate of character layer
* use fill or brush tool with large brush to fill selection with black
* copy bottom layer (the black outline) to your clipboard
* paste your selection onto canvas and use offset tool or transformation tool to position.

is this going to be worked on? Other indie pixelart editors have it and I would love to be able to do that in Pyxel Edit.

This would be an awesome feature. I also outline my stuff often.  :) +1

I think that it is better with black line than without it! From what game this character?