Lightcube Pixel Art Editor

Released: Oct 4, 2023
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 18:27 GMT

Updates & announcements

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15 Sep 2026Developer post
Clipboard update and other bug fixes
Added - Added a copy button and a paste button to the palette toolbar, you can now copy a palette to the clipboard and paste it into another image palette. Changed - All palette editing now controlled by the palette lock. To make changes to the palette, other than sorting, first
01 Sep 2025Developer post
Photoshop PSD rework
Changed : - Font size limit increased from 80 to 300. - If current color alpha is 0 and you select a color from the palette, alpha is restored to 255. Fixed : - If mousewheel zoom during selection, marquee lines go out of view. - Photoshop PSD reworked to be more stable. - Import
13 Aug 2025Developer post
Summer Update 1.2.0
Fixed: - Whilst selecting with marquee tool, status bar shows selection size 1 pixel less than actual selection size. - Can't select a single 1 pixel wide line of pixels. - Changing the tool after typing text causes the text to disappear. - Exporting video with odd number height
17 Jul 2024Developer post
Bug fix to stop crashing when loading files
Fixed: - Sometimes Lightcube will crash when loading .art files. The files are not corrupt, the application is just incorrectly loading them, this is now fixed.
12 Jul 2024Developer post
Small bugfix
A small bug related to saving image files crept into the update that went yesterday, this release fixes that problem.
11 Jul 2024Developer post
July 2024 Update
Added: 1. Export animation to MP4 video 2. Export sprites to Godot Fixed: 1. Fixed free rotation, sometimes pixels selected for rotation would disappear when free rotated 2. Fixed the really annoying pixel coordinate issue where the selection click point is biased to the top left
10 Jul 2024Developer post
The next update: Bug fixes, video export, Godot export
The next update contains: Bug fixes for PNG export, free rotation, selection and more. There are also two new features: Exporting animations to MP4 video and export Sprites to Godot. The update is almost ready to go, some final testing and then it will be posted to Steam!
16 Jan 2024Developer post
Update to fix some bugs
Changed: Text added to the scene is now added as a floating selection, allowing you to move it with the selection tool before making the change permanent. Fixed: Text block creates memory leak in undo data. Move tool doesn't have an undo action. On restart, select Text tool, the
Changed:

Text added to the scene is now added as a floating selection, allowing you to move it with the selection tool before making the change permanent.
Fixed:

Text block creates memory leak in undo data.
Move tool doesn't have an undo action.
On restart, select Text tool, the preview shows the preview text Arial instead of the current selected font.
While selecting content if you press Ctrl+X, it leaves a solid line rect and copies nothing.
In the animation window if you copy a frame, it does not copy the frame duration.
If you create new document, draw, click close application without saving, it prompts to save file. Enter filename, prompts again and if you ignore the 2nd prompt, nothing has been written out.
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06 Jan 2024Developer post
A small update: bug fixes
Switching from Text tool to another tool can lead to shift, alt and ctrl not being detected. Making changes to the font size using the keyboard can cause unexpected changes to the text content. Animation onion skin is not working after the layer blending mode update. When you mak
Switching from Text tool to another tool can lead to shift, alt and ctrl not being detected.
Making changes to the font size using the keyboard can cause unexpected changes to the text content.
Animation onion skin is not working after the layer blending mode update.
When you make a duplicate of a tab and then click save, instead of prompting for a filename it just overwrites the original file.
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04 Jan 2024Developer post
New Years Update: Layer blend modes and a new toolbar
Happy New Year! This update adds blend modes to layers, including multiply, linear burn, darken, lighten, color dodge and more. A new toolbar has been added to the top of the canvas window giving you quick one click access to Undo, Rotate, Flip, Cut, Copy, Paste, Grid and Zoom. A
Happy New Year! This update adds blend modes to layers, including multiply, linear burn, darken, lighten, color dodge and more. A new toolbar has been added to the top of the canvas window giving you quick one click access to Undo, Rotate, Flip, Cut, Copy, Paste, Grid and Zoom. Also included in the update is a list of bug fixes detailed below.
Added:

Layer blend modes including multiply, linear burn, darken, lighten and more.
Toolbar with Undo, Rotate, Flip, Cut, Copy, Paste, Grid and Zoom buttons.
Fixed:

Drawing a shape with the option to fill the shape crashes the application.
Drawing with a lower alpha level on a blank canvas led to incorrect blending.
Pressing tab whilst in dialog window causes main UI to expand or collapse.
Erase tool required mouse move before erasing pixel under the click point.
Erase tool strength setting was being ignored.
Floating pixel selection is moved by arrow keys if arrow keys are pressed in edit control.
Rotate image clockwise messes up the image.
Rotate image anti-clockwise messes up the image.
If you close the application with unsaved changes and the animation playing, the app crashes.
Exporting to folder that doesn't exist and it fails, no error msg.
Sometimes focus is lost and shift, alt, ctrl no longer works.
Undo after color replace all doesn't work.
Crop was only working on a selection rect, if you select Crop now without a selection rect, any pixels outside of the canvas bounds are removed.
Undo only restores pixel data in the canvas area, pixels outside of the canvas remain changed.
Flood fill doesn't work properly with content that exceeds the canvas size.
Trim doesn't work properly with content that exceeds the canvas size.
Color picker doesn't get the pixel alpha level, only the R, G and B value.
Merging a layer into the layer below it with a frame offset causes the top layer to move to meet the layer below it.
Fixed some photoshop PSD import bugs.
Made the grid input fields larger to support expressions better.
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27 Dec 2023Developer post
The next update: Layer blend modes
The next update is in progress and will contain layer blending modes such as darken, lighten, multiply, color burn, linear burn etc. plus a number of bug fixes including the rather annoying UI bugs, eraser bug and issues with the alt, shift and ctrl keys.
14 Dec 2023Developer post
Lightcube now has a text tool
Added: - Text tool with font selection, size, bold etc. - More brush shapes including 24px patterns, 24px landscape, 32px windows and doors and hex shapes. Changed: - Application window title used to show filename, now shows full filename and path Fixed: - Improved pen tablet dra
21 Nov 2023Developer post
Dev log 21/11 - Text tool incoming
The upcoming update for Lightcube includes the following: 1. A text tool that enables you to place a text cursor on the current layer and type text that is formatted according to the tool settings which include font face, size, bold italic, spacing etc. The onscreen caret provide
30 Oct 2023Developer post
Update to version 1.0.7
Added : - Tool option to let tablet pressure affect pen size - Tool option to let tablet pressure affect eraser size Fixed : - Tablet compatibility, works correctly now with tablet pen and with surface pro - Fixed Brush tool blank spots - Removed grayed-out menu option for animat