Export your artwork in Dottie on Mac

Exporting produces a flat image from the visible layers; your .dottie document keeps its layers.

Export a single image

  1. Choose File > Export as Image Command+E.

  2. Choose a format from the pop-up menu in the save panel:

FormatNotes
PNG

Lossless with transparency. The default choice.

BMP, TIFF

Standard flattened bitmap formats.

GIF, APNG

Animated when the document has more than one frame—every frame is written using its timing. A single frame exports as a still image.

SVG

Vector output with one rectangle per pixel, grouped per layer with layer opacity—scales to any size without blurring.

XPM

Text-based X PixMap, handy for source code embedding.

ICO

Windows icon—wraps the image as an icon (canvas must be 256×256 or smaller).

PICO-8 (.p8)

Exports the sprite sheet into a PICO-8 cartridge's __gfx__ section using the PICO-8 16-colour palette. The canvas is exported into a 128×128 grid—larger canvases are cropped to the top-left 128×128, smaller ones are padded with transparency.

Export a sprite sheet

Choose File > Export as Sheet Shift+Command+E to lay every layer out on a single PNG grid. The save panel offers:

The suggested filename ends in -table-<width>-<height>, so importing the sheet later restores each cell to its own layer.

Share an image

Choose File > Share as Image Option+Command+S to send a flattened PNG to Mail, Messages, AirDrop, and other share destinations.

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