Pixel editor is a standalone pixel art application for editing and animating. Artists have access to a variety of industry standard tools such as undo/redo, color picker, eye dropper, frames, export, save, and load. Pixel editor uses a custom save file called a .ssp file for holding art information. Once the artist is happy with their work their can either export as a single png or a png sequence for animations.
Pixel Editor was made using Qt Creator with C++. The code structure is split into a Model, View, and Controller Architecture. Pixel Editor Projects use .ssp files which are compressed text documents holding JSON information about the project. This JSON format is used to represent the colors of pixels in the project as well as separate frames from one another.