: What application supports working with sprites (PNGs) over 10,000 px wide? I'm currently using Fireworks for image manipulation and preparation, and I do the following tasks: Resizing the canvas

@Tiffany317

Inkscape has a large limit:

100,000 on my screen (10x what you need). The atual limit is because of zoom capabilities - it can't zoom out any more. The image is still fine in it, and it's using less than 200GB of memory. Even better it's completely free, and works well on all 3 operating systems.

It saves as a .svg format for editing but it has an inbuilt save-as for .png. Sometimes (when you apply "filters" like blur) you have to export it, and that's built in too. You also have to export to add a transparent background - save-as doesn't work for that!

Here is the link for ubuntu:

Install via the software center hostmar.co/software-banner
Here are other Linux distributions. Source code and packaged for OpenSUSE.

Here are the Windows downloads. There is an installer and a portable one - with all features - for USB

Here is the OSX download. I didn't need to do complete all those steps, but they might be important.

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@Moriarity648

Photoshops your best bet, although it doesn't like it if you use Save for Web on humongous images, you can just do a straight save if you want to keep your alpha channel. You don't say what the sprites are being used for but most game development API's support targeting one colour (say 255,255,0) as an alpha channel.

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@Kristi927

Adobe's Photoshop supports something like 300,000 pixel canvas's. It has a "Save for Web" feature that allows you to save a PNG24 file (which supports your alpha transparency). It too has all the functions you are looking for.

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