You may have noticed the feedback page has been a bit dead for while. Even things that had been completed were still sitting as planned. There was a reason.

For a while we used the service Canny.io for a feedback page on the site. It worked very well and was a great tool, that let us embed it on our page, link users, trigger notifications, link to code, all for free. Then a few months ago they changed the free tier to no longer include many of the features. I was locked out of using it until I removed many of the features, or decided to upgrade to $80 a month (a huge chunk of Lospec's budget). 

So instead I created our own simpler system, since most of what we needed already existed on our system. It doesn't have quite as many features as Canny, but at least it's free and fully integrated into Lospec, and now we can start using it again.

So go check it out, and help me decide what to work on or fix by submitting suggestions and voting on ideas. 

This has been a long requested feature, and it's finally here! This lets you follow any artist on Lospec, which means you'll be notified when they post a new piece to the gallery, or submit a new palette. This is a great way to ensure you never miss a piece from your favorite artists! 

Go to an artists profile, and you'll see a new "+ Follow" button on the top right. When you click it, it will turn red and say "Following". You will then start recieving notifications of their new works!

Notifications are sent when the pieces are released from the moderation queue (not as soon as they are submitted or approved). 

When someone starts following you, you'll recieve a notification. You can see someone's total number of followers in the row under their name on their profile, but it's intentionally subtle. 

Go try it out!

The new Palette Identifier tool lets you upload an image you've created and find which Lospec palette it used! It searches every palette on Lospec that uses the same colors in your image. It will still return matches if you only used a subset of colors from your palette. It will even work if your palette has been modified slightly, returning the palettes that are the most similar. 

This tools works via magic. No further questions please.

It's also used in the palette queue for pending palettes, so moderators can easily spot when your submission already exists on Lospec, and send a bomber drone to your house to destroy you (also available upon request).

Our popular Pixel Art Scaler tool has been upgraded so that it works purely in your client, so it no longer has to go to our server. Not only will this be faster for you, it will also reduce the strain on our server so everything else will process faster. The UI should now also be a little easier to use. If you don't like this change, the older version is still available.

Theres also a new feature where you can pick from various pixel art scaling algorithms for upscaling your art. None of these are perfect, and wont be as good as scaling things up by hand, but they can be interesting to see, and might be a good starting point for other things. 

In addition there's also a new tool called the Pixel Art Rotator, which is very similar, just for rotation instead of scaling. This uses algorithms that work better than just typical pixel rotation, which can have very noisy and messy results.

If you find any issues with these tool, or know of any algorithms we missed that you would like to see, please let us know.

I just released the second full course on Pixel School, called Art Foundation.

This course covers foundational art techniques which aren't specific to pixel art but are still very important for making great pixel art. We cover color, shading, composition, perspective, and more! 

There's a sitewide 25% off sale available for the next week.

Check out Art Foundation on PixelSchool.org