Allegro Sprite Editor is an open source program to create animated sprites. Sprites are little images that can be used in your website or in a video game. You can draw characters with movement, intros, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos, color palettes, isometric levels, etc. A software specially designed with facilities to generate animated sprites that can be later used in video games.

This program let you create from static images characters with movement, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos, color palettes, and any other thing that you think.

Allegro Sprite Editor Features:
1. Sprites are composed by layers and frames. These two concept are separated. You have layers in one side and frames on the other side. You can imagine this as a matrix, where each row is a layer and each column is a frame.
2. Supported color modes: RGBA, Grayscale and Indexed images (palettes up to 256 colors).
3. Supported image formats (load/save): PNG, GIF, JPG, FLC, FLI, BMP, PCX, TGA, and ASE (special format).
4. Load and save animations in a sequence of bitmaps (e.g. frame1.png, frame2.png, etc.).
5. Tiled drawing mode, useful to draw patterns and textures.
6. Undo/Redo for every operation.
7. Special tools like Blur, Jumble, Convolution Matrices.
8. Multiple editors support. You can split an editor horizontally or vertically multiple times to edit and view the same sprite with different zooms, or different sprites.
9. Onion skinning.

In Windows 98/2K/XP/Vista the main configuration file is aseprite.ini which is saved in the same folder of aseprite.exe executable file (in this way ASE is a portable application, i.e. you can transport a copy of the program in your USB drive).

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this image editing software.