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Yesterday I was toying a bit with our upcoming Polka2 (heavily under construction), prolly a version 0.001 if one needs to attach a version anyway. But what it does so far:
- msx1 palette
- msx2 palette
- g9k 16c palette (5bit)
- g9k 64c palette (5bit)
- tile image editor (sc2 style)
- bitmap image editor (square pixels like sc5, high pixels like sc7, wide pixels like one of those g9k modes), and custom width+height
- user comments for palettes and images
- draw, with or without brush (and brushes can be created by yourself) *
- bresenham line *
- rect *
- bucket fill *
- undo with history
- overlay zoom editor
* also during zooming in (global and overlay)
I think you can safely assume that P2 will eventually do what you want from such a tool.. 
It's easy use Polka? I download it time ago and I found it confusing interface.
The old version of my own drawing tool is very similar to gfxage. The program is bit outdated (works only in 16 bit color depth mode) and on top of that I cannot recompile the source to include some improvements, additions or changes. So therefore I am currently working on something new too, though a little specific aimed for my own needs.
For now all graphics are drawn in 6bit mode (i.e. 64 colors palette) normal aspect ratio. In the end it will support some export features to export sc2/sc4, 4bit bitmap, 6bit bitmap graphics. Yes, that means no sc7 stuff.
For compatibility with the older version I had to included some nice color split feature (so in theory you can have 212 x 64 colors on one single screen ), very useful I think. 
So far I also included some nice display filters so you can see what a drawing looks like (also during drawing) in sc2/4 or without contacts (very blurry).
Now doesn't it sound great!?
Rather than using a SD/CF to drag files to a real MSX, why not put it into a dir on your PC and use an emulator with a DirAsDisk function and run Age in that emulator?
Oh, in Polka2 there will be importers for all relevant MSX image formats.. Remember kids: it'll become more than 'just' a graphics tool!
By guantxip
Paladin (975)
10-01-2011, 14:16