Minecraft skin editor

Paints single pixels in the colour you picked. Click one pixel, or hold the button down and drag to paint a line. Brush size 1-4 (top right) decides how many pixels wide each dab is. Works on the flat texture and straight on the 3D model.

Makes pixels see-through again instead of painting over them. Drag to rub out a whole area. This is the tool for cutting holes in the Overlay layer - a hat or jacket pixel that is erased lets the body layer underneath show.

Floods a whole patch of one colour at once. Click any pixel and every pixel touching it that has the same colour turns into your colour. It stops at the edge of the body part you are on, so filling the chest will not leak onto an arm.

Paints your colour but nudges the brightness of every single pixel randomly by a small amount. That slight unevenness is what makes hair, stone, wool or dirt look like a real texture instead of a flat sticker. Use it exactly like the brush - pick a base colour and drag.

Takes a colour off the skin instead of off the colour wheel. Click any painted pixel and that colour becomes your current colour, then the editor switches straight back to the tool you were using. Clicking an empty pixel picks nothing, so you cannot pick up "transparent" by mistake.

Steps back one change. Every stroke counts as one step, so an undo removes a whole drag, not one pixel. Greyed out when there is nothing left to undo.

Puts back a change you just undid. Greyed out once you have caught up, and it clears as soon as you draw something new.

A switch, not a tool. Turn it on and everything you paint on one side is painted on the matching spot on the other side at the same time - so you draw one arm, one shoe or one eye and get the pair. It applies to Fill as well, and on a cape with elytra it mirrors one wing onto the other.

Shows or hides the thin lines between pixels on the flat texture. Leave it on while you are placing pixels one by one; turn it off to judge how the finished skin really looks.

Throws away everything on the canvas and starts again from the plain default skin. This one cannot be undone, so download first if you want to keep what you have.

Saves what you see as a 64x64 PNG on your computer. That file is what you upload to Minecraft - nothing is sent anywhere, the image is built in your browser.

Opens a PNG from your computer and loads it onto the canvas so you can carry on from it. A 64x64 skin fits as is; an old 64x32 one is converted for you. You can also drag a PNG straight onto the canvas.

Saves the cape texture as its own PNG. The cape is a separate image from the skin, so it downloads separately.

Loads a cape PNG onto the model. Switch the back item to Elytra to paint wings instead of a cape.