Aseprite is billed as a pixel art tool, but more and more I've been finding myself using it as a general image editor for all kinds of operations I struggle to do on more specialized graphic editors
- It's lightweight. If I click it, it just opens. compared with photoshop equivalents where you're waiting at least a few seconds for it to boot up, if I just want to quickly resize/crop or convert file formats, I want the faster option
- ease of use: admittedly this is partly that I'm used to it by now, but basic edits like cropping or overlaying an image over another is way more painless. harkens back to windows xp paint's usefulness where industry software is overkill
- animated gif editing! thanks to aseprite's robust animation tools, it's good at that too
- palette indexed colour editing: admittedly a niche use case, but you can edit images with indexed colour while preserving the palette, versus most software which tends to convert them to full colour
- actually opens webp files, including animations. no more headaches
this of course falls apart when you actually need the advanced photo-editing tools that industry software is known for, but if you just want to change file formats or to make a low-effort meme it works perfectly fine
it's also open source and you can build it yourself for free
(but you should give them $20 anyway if you can)
