What the best pixel/sprite editor free?

I've been looking around for pixel/sprite editor, but can't find any that works for me. I've been trying to find one that plays animations and has a suitable working environment as well. Please post if you know of a good editor. Thanks!

I use graphics gale

http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/

Be sure to give GIMP a try:

http://www.gimp.org/

@ Darth Crusher Thanks for the reply. Graphics gale looks good I will give it a try!

@ jojoe I got Gimp 2 years ago, and I still am trying to work out all the features .

Well, I use paint/paint.net for that.

http://www.getpaint.net/

Gimp

The quickest and easiest, Greenfish Icon Editor Pro

Some others that are more geared to Sprite only:

Spartan:

http://www.vitruality.com/2014/10/spartan-v1-1/

Not too bad. Has some nice generators for brick and water.

Piskel:

http://www.piskelapp.com/

Need an account for all the features (FREE). Works on Chromebooks and tablet devices. Nice way to share and learn from others.

For Smooth edge SVG there are a couple of online edtiors :

SVG edit from google : http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn-hist ... ditor.html

Method draw : http://editor.method.ac/

EDIT:

Piskel has a nice new standalone version that works either locally, or along with your free gallery. Linux,Mac,Win It uses node webkit <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

Aseprite has a built-in animation preview. It's also pretty easy to use. It's not free but you can get it for $10 at least, which is basically nothing, or you can set your own price above $10 if you feel like it.

http://www.aseprite.org/

I wrote a post about pixel art programs.

You can find it here :

http://td2tl.com/tutorials/pixel-art-programs/

Thanks for the replies

Paint.net looks good. Just finished downloading it. Doesn't work on windows xp.

Looks like Greenfish icon editor does animations. I really needed this. Thanks

I like asprite's pixel like window. I will try the free version.

Thanks for the link bilgekaan. Wow are all the games on your site made by you. I like the pixel art.

Thanks for the posts and links guys this really helps.

I love Pyxeledit. It's not free, but it's only about $9. It's brilliant for mocking stuff up since you can create your own tiles n' plaster them about, then, if you edit one, they all update to fit the changes. the sprite animation and export options are brilliant too. It's in beta though, so there are a few tools n' features missing, (like flipping horizontally/vertically), but it's the only program I use for my pixelling.