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Import art from another program

Draw in Aseprite, Photoshop, Procreate or anything else, and bring the PNG or JPEG into nfty as a new layer or as one variant of an existing layer.

Before you start: export the picture at exactly the CookBook's canvas size. nfty never resizes art (see Why nfty never resizes your art); a picture of another size is refused with both sizes named.

Make a picture into a new layer

  1. In the Explorer, unlock editing and select the Recipe the layer will join.
  2. Click Import in the toolbar and choose a .png, .jpg or .jpeg.

  3. The Image as Ingredient form opens. Give the layer a NAME and choose its KIND. The preview shows the picture as that kind will store it:

    Kind What nfty keeps
    Custom The art exactly as drawn, colors and all.
    Dynamic Lightness only: a value-map whose color is rolled per asset from the hue and saturation you set.
    Static Lightness only, colored with one FIXED COLOR.

  4. Click Import & paint. The picture becomes the layer's first variant and the editor opens on it.

Dynamic and Static drop the picture's colors

Those kinds are value-maps, so only each pixel's lightness survives. The form says so when color will be lost. If you meant to keep the colors, choose Custom.

Replace one variant's art

In the Ingredient Editor, select the variant and click Import… in the left pane. The picture replaces that variant's art. To bring in several, add a variant for each and import into them one at a time.

Pictures with a color profile

Art drawn on a wide-gamut screen often carries an embedded profile: Display P3 on a recent Mac or iPad, Adobe RGB from Photoshop. nfty stores plain pixels, and marketplaces, browsers and game engines read plain pixels as sRGB, so a P3 picture stored as-is looks duller wherever it travels.

  • The Image as Ingredient form names the profile and offers Convert to sRGB, ticked by default; the preview shows the result. On a Dynamic or Static layer the conversion happens first, then nfty takes the lightness.
  • The editor's Import… converts without asking and says that it did.
  • Profiles nfty cannot convert (gray, CMYK and other print profiles, table-only profiles) are named, and the picture comes in as stored.
  • From the command line, new ingredient and add variant convert too; --keep-profile skips it.

Bring in a part from another project

A loose .igt or .rcp imports the same way, with the Explorer's Import. See Pull a part into a CookBook.