Export your artwork in Dottie on Mac

Exporting produces a flat image of what you see on the canvas; your .dottie document keeps its layers. In Composite mode that is the stacked layers; in Tileset mode it is the sheet; with Wrap Tiles on it is the compacted wrap group.

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 you are not in Tileset mode and more than one visible layer (or timeline frame) can play back—every frame is written using its timing. In Tileset mode they export a still of the sheet (or wrap group). A single frame always 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. Tileset and Wrap Tiles place each tile where it sits on the canvas.
XPM

Text-based X PixMap, handy for source code embedding. Flattened the same way as PNG.
ICO

Windows icon—wraps the flattened image as an icon (the exported picture 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. The PNG is the same composite as Export as Image.

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