I'm a newbie and well the title says it all . I'd appreciate some help 
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uhajdafdfdfa
graphics GALE is a windows shareware that is good for newbywewbies
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I use Paint.net, but only because regular Paint doesn't zoom in far enough on very small (40x40 or so) images. Due to the nature of Pixel art, the tools don't really need to be all that complex, it's far more about the one using them (the same could be said for many things, but pixel art especially).
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Philadelphia
I use Flash CS5 with the pixel plugin, but that's a bit pricey and more for animation. But it will make your image into a vector which is nice for resizing and all of that jazz.
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Russia, Moscow
Graphics Gale is a great tool. It has a freeware version, you only have to pay for commercial use and GIF support.
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rochester, ny
Photoshop works great.
Set yr image size in document setup > Turn on pixel grid > use pencil and set size to 1 pxl.
You can download 8-bit / 16-bit swatch collections too.
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Saint Paul, MN
The person who does the art for my albums does it in GIMP.
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Westfield, NJ
PIXEN is the best if you are on a mac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixen
if you are on windows then too bad
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Boston, MA
i use 2 windows in photoshop so I can edit zoomed in and still see the image at actual pixel size, or 2x2. this keeps me from having to zoom in and out over and over...
in photoshop go WINDOW -> ARRANGE -> (at the bottom) NEW WINDOW FOR whatever, now that smaller window will stay on top while you work in the background, just move it out of the way. Also you can turn off rulers for the small window specifically (VIEW -> RULERS or CTRL + R) so it will be as small as possible and out of your way.
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Venezuela
There are many good apps for pixelart. I personally recomend theses...
MsPaint
Grafx2
Paint.net
Graphic Gale
Photoshop
Of course there are more, but those are my fav when youre creating pixelart. You can find them all here
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4103/ … d-related/
Enjoy
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rochester, ny
ultramega wrote:
i use 2 windows in photoshop so I can edit zoomed in and still see the image at actual pixel size, or 2x2. this keeps me from having to zoom in and out over and over...
in photoshop go WINDOW -> ARRANGE -> (at the bottom) NEW WINDOW FOR whatever, now that smaller window will stay on top while you work in the background, just move it out of the way. Also you can turn off rulers for the small window specifically (VIEW -> RULERS or CTRL + R) so it will be as small as possible and out of your way.
some good tips right here.
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detroit
Decktonic wrote:
PIXEN is the best if you are on a mac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixen
if you are on windows then too bad
I really dig pixen. just make sure to save often!