Extract text from PISKEL files
To convert your PISKEL file to another format, you need Piskel or other Raster Image software.
To convert other file formats to the "Sprite Project File" file type, you need software like Piskel or a similar tool.
A .PISKEL file is a proprietary project file created by Piskel, a popular open-source editor for pixel art and animated sprites. Under the hood, this file is actually a plain text document formatted in JSON, containing Base64-encoded image data, layer structures, frame timings, and color palettes.
Because .PISKEL is a project source file rather than a standard raster image, it poses significant compatibility challenges. You cannot open it directly in standard image viewers like Windows Photos, upload it to social media, or import it directly into game engines like Unity or Godot without preprocessing. To use your animation, you typically need to export it. For web display and sharing, the best target is GIF. For game development, converting to a PNG sprite sheet (where frames are tiled in a grid) is the industry standard. For archiving or editing in other software, converting the internal frame data to a ZIP of individual PNG files allows for migration to tools like Aseprite.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PISKEL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PNG, PIXIL, GIF, JPG, ZIP, TSX, SPRITE, TXT, BIN, EXE, TORRENT, PDF and STL files.
If you want to convert PISKEL file to PNG, GIF, JPG, PDF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use Piskel or similar software from the "Pixel Art Animation Project" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to PISKEL, try Piskel or another comparable tool in the "Pixel Art Animation Project" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our PISKEL converter.