making tilestes

I need help making tilesets for RMXP is there a cirtian program i can use or is it just paint?

To my knowledge...I don't think there are any specific programs designed exclusively for making tilesets, but I could be wrong on that point; graphics aren't exactly my strong suit.

As for the other part of the question, Paint works well for minor editing, or splicing graphics, but I wouldn't recommend creating them in it.  I'd go for GIMP, personally, as it's free.  But if you've got some money, or know the internets well, you can go for Photoshop, as well.

Granted, there are also a slew of other graphic programs out there.    Just see what works best for what you need ^^

You could use whatever art program you want. I would seriously recommend one with a grid though. A palette and a high zoom amount would also be very useful.

Here, I'll plug my site here, I think it would help:
http://tilesettutorial.wordpress.com/

The recent posts are of a certain program, but you don't have to use that program, and many of the other posts are step by step on how I do tiles.

Check the link to the right, "Graphic programs", and there's a few you could take a look at. Graphics Gale is a good one. Character Maker 1999 is my personal favorite but it doesn't have all the features or zooming that Graphics Gale does.

When making them, set the grid to 32x32. Then have fun.

Those look like very nice tutorials. Good work Ocean and thanks for the link.


As for the grid ~ obviously a program with that built in is ideal, but you can achieve the same effect in any program with layers by creating a template image of a grid and setting it as the bottom layer.

Bit of a bump, but I found this program a while back that CAN create tilesets.  You can import a tileset or picture, grab some tiles from it, and then import a new one and grab some tiles from it, so one and so forth.  It automatically divides the image into appropriate-sized squares.