A tool for creating pixel art and icons from regular images (Windows, WinForms, .NET 8).
- Pixelization - block averaging or center sampling, aspect ratio lock
- Palettes - Median Cut quantization, retro palettes, per-color recoloring without re-quantization, import/export (JASC PAL, Photoshop ACT, GIMP GPL)
- Dithering - Floyd–Steinberg, Bayer 4×4 / 8×8 with adjustable intensity, applied over effects
- 3D effects - sphere, cylinder, rounded rectangle with lighting (ambient/diffuse, light direction)
- Pixel editor - pencil, line, rectangle, ellipse (Shift - regular shape, Ctrl - from center), fill, eyedropper, eraser, secondary color on right click, zoom up to 16×
- Animation - frame-by-frame GIF processing through the full pipeline, animated GIF export
- Export - PNG, Indexed PNG (8 bpp), multi-size ICO, batch processing
- Pipeline auto-cascade - re-pixelizing recomputes palette, dithering and effects automatically (can be turned off)
- Background removal, outlines, detachable panels, dark/light/hybrid themes, presets, double-click a slider label to type an exact value
- Plugins - extend functionality via DLLs
Ready-to-use builds are in the Releases section:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
KebuzForge-Setup-…-win-x64.exe |
Installer: shortcuts, uninstaller, downloads .NET 8 Runtime automatically |
KebuzForge-win-x64-portable.exe |
Single file, no installation needed (~68 MB) |
KebuzForge-win-x64-lite.exe |
Single file ~0.4 MB, requires .NET 8 Desktop Runtime |
KebuzForge-win-arm64-… / win-x86-… |
Same for Windows ARM64 and 32-bit systems |
FaviconForgePlugin-….zip |
"Favicon Generator" plugin |
Plugins are DLLs placed in %LocalAppData%\Kebuz\KebuzForge\Plugins
(menu Plugins → Open plugins folder...) or in the Plugins folder next to the exe (portable variant).
Generates a complete favicon package for a website (similar to realfavicongenerator.net): favicon.ico + PNG (16/32/48), apple-touch-icon, android-chrome 192/512, PWA maskable, Windows Tiles + browserconfig.xml, safari-pinned-tab.svg, site.webmanifest and ready-to-use HTML code. Background, padding, rounding and color settings per platform, live previews, export to ZIP or folder.
A plugin is a net8.0-windows assembly with a public static class PluginEntry:
public static class PluginEntry
{
public static string PluginName => "Plugin name";
public static string PluginDescription => "Description";
public static string PluginVersion => "1.0.0";
public static Form CreateMainForm() => new MyPluginForm();
}dotnet build KebuzForge.sln -c Release
Single-file publish:
dotnet publish KebuzForge.App -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true
dotnet publish KebuzForge.App -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained false -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:EnableCompressionInSingleFile=false
Installer (requires Inno Setup 6):
iscc installer\setup.iss