Questions tagged [pixel-art]
Questions about the design style that mimics the blocky pixelation and simple style of early video game graphics.
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How can I 'blow up' small pixel art?
I have this small pixel art as example. Is there a way to make it bigger without it getting blurry or fuzzy in Photoshop?
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How to convert every pixel of raster picture to square objects in Illustrator?
For example I have 10×10px icon. I want to produce 100 squares with correspondent color and location each. Actually, the question is how to make exact pixel mosaic out of raster image.
I tried Live ...
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Why does modern low-res art seem to look better than retro low-res art?
N.B: I previously used the term "pixel art", which I took to mean "modern, intentionally low-resolution art," though that's an inaccurate definition, so I edit the title
It seems to me that modern ...
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How do I make an image look pixelated, like old school arcade graphics?
I want to take some stock art (can be of any dimension) and make it look pixelated, kind of like old Mario Brothers video games circa the 80's.
Part of the image manipulation would require scaling ...
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How to transform a pixel image in vector logo in Inkscape?
I don't know if I'm in the right place, but I would like to know how to transform a pixel image I've made into a vector logo ?
I use this picture for my favicon of my personal web site.
And if you ...
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Pixel art from "classic" adventure games: 320x200 or 320x240?
I want to draw pixel art that should look like it is a scene from one of the LucasArts adventure games released around 1990-1995 (e.g., The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2).
Most games ...
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Can I have layers with different pixel resolution in Photoshop?
I use Photoshop for pixel art. When I have a reference photo, I'd like to be able to use that image as the background and start drawing my pixel art on a layer on top of it.
The thing is, the best ...
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Convert PNG pixel arts to SVG without tracing
For a personal project, I designed some icons as PNG files and would like to export them as SVGs.
I know the next question: I don't want a raster, I need vectors. I found this question but since it's ...
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How to snap to every half-pixel (0,5) in illustrator?
I am trying to optimise a vector graphic so it does align well to pixels but if I try to align-to-pixel grid I loose too much from the quality and I still need to be able to snap with 0.5px increments....
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Is there a way to count the number of pixels of each colour in a picture?
I make cross stitch designs, lately been using Affinity Photo/Designer. So I can figure out how much of each colour thread I need, I want to count the number of each pixels of each colour (in the ...
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Why can I create layers, but not layer groups in the indexed color mode in gimp?
I'm making some pixel art in gimp and I so I figured I should use the indexed color mode since I won't be using very many colors.
About halfway through my project I realized that I wanted to be able ...
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How do I easily convert a fuzzy pixel art image back into pixels?
I want to convert a fuzzy pixel art image into a crisp actually-pixel-art pixel art image.
An example of this is taking a still from say a youtube clip of a pixel-art animation, and recreating the ...
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How to create metalic reflection effect in pixel art?
Currently I just randomly drawing right leaning segments with lighter colour, and sometimes It looks better sometimes it doesn't. But I don't understand what kind of pattern should I follow.
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Modify Yellow Dotted Line in GIMP
How do I remove or resize the marching ants from around the apple? It appeared when I used the move tool to move the position of the apple. It is in its own layer. I need to modify the image/layer ...
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What genre of pixel art were MS-DOS and NES games? How to draw them?
The image below is characteristic of MS-DOS and NES games. What is this kind of pixel art called, and how to paint on a similar canvas where pixels take on a diamond sort of asterisk look (*). 8-bit ...
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How to make photoshop pencil tool 8x8 pixel square
I was making some pixel art and at some point I doubled the image size so now in order to continue to make my nice squares I want the pixel tool to be an 8x8 pixel square tip. Is it possible?
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Pixel art Randomness
How do pixel artists create random colours for example Grass. Some games use a Grass texture with different colours That are green and are similar. I jist want to know how people create it.
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Isometric color shading rule for pixel art
Lets say I have a cube in an isometric pixel art with the 'normal' color #ff0000 (red) and I want to shade remaining sides, is there a rule for selecting the top (brighter red) color and the darker ...
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Modify pixel art size without losing aesthetic
I have this platform of pixel art:
I want to modify its size to make it bigger, and I want to conserve the pixel-art aesthetic, like this:
But when I press Start to set the size, the piece turns ...
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What are Aseprite's strong points over Photoshop for creating static pixel art?
I'm in doubt of buying Aseprite for my pixeling needs, but I'm not very eager to have to learn using a new piece of software. Currently, I'm using Photoshop for pixeling, and my workflow in there is ...
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Aligning Brushes to Edge with Grid (PS)
I've made a custom brush in Photoshop and I'm trying to use it on a pixel grid that I've set up. However, whenever I try to use it, either with a brush or pencil (I'm relying on the pencil tool for it'...
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How should I insert sharp, crispy, pixel-perfect text into a pixel art?
There're many free pixel-style fonts available, like FontsArena's W95FA and wixette's Dotted Chinese Pixel Fonts with Unicode support.
However, when trying to use those pixel-style fonts into pixel ...
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Rendering 3D model with animation as pixel art
I have been making games for a while now and have a substantial understanding of the 2D animations and processes. However my understanding with 3D modeling is limited even though I have made some low ...
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Does anyone know a good pixel font 7px tall?
I'm looking for a pixel font which I'll use later on to convert/use on an lcd type of display and the maximum height is 7px.
I've started by checking out dafont's bitmap fonts, but it takes quite a ...
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How to create random pixel art pattern in GIMP?
I just need to do the same process that was done in
this post,
but in GIMP.
I can add noise to the image in gimp, but I don't know which sliders should I move to get the wanted effect.
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Changing the amount of pixels in an Image in GIMP (or Photoshop) for scaling purposes
I'd like to paint an image from a video game with acrylics on a large piece of mdf board. The image is save on my laptop, is from an early video game system (Sega) and is pixelated. I am trying to ...
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What color should be use on the edge of isometric pixel art
Is there a general rule to put outline/contour in isometric pixel art and what color should be used?
I know the inside can be outlined not by black but by the color used, but what about the outer ...
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In Adobe Illustrator, is there a way to lock only an object's position?
In Photoshop, I am able to lock specific aspects of a layer individually: transparency, content and location. I find myself in need of this functionality in Adobe Illustrator.
Is there a way to have ...
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Is there a way to convert pixel art into vector?
I've made some high resolution pixel art in PS by drawing it down at the pixel level and then increasing the image size with the nearest neighbor setting to keep it crisp. In the web browser, however, ...
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Pixel art software for Windows 10
I am into game design and I want to make my game in pixel art style. I saw a program called Graphics Gale. Is it good for pixel art?
Can anyone recommend some open-source, or free, Windows 10 pixel ...
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What is a good icon for a 'change units' button?
We are working on a software with a design close to Office 2013 (2D icons, main colors black and white).
We have a button which allows the user to change the units in the software. We are looking for ...
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Pixel Art defined in Photoshop
I'm starting to learning pixel art and I have doubts.
My idea is do something like this:
The pixel is perfectly defined. I'm trying to do this in Photoshop and I cannot do it unless point by point ...
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How do you make top down tileable mountain ranges like fire emblem?
TL;DR: my goal is to gain the knowledge necessary to make these kinds of mountains from scratch.
I've been searching hard all over for tutorials and dissecting tilemaps but I just can't figure out ...
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1px pencil draws 3px in Photoshop
I am trying to draw with 1px pencil but it draws 3px square. I checked my grid settings and Im sure that every grid is 1 px. How can I fix that?
as you see this is 3x3px canvas and pencil is 1px but ...
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How to create a 3D pixel art style extruded cube design?
How to design the 3D red cube in the 1st poster? (Love the design!)
http://www.coroflot.com/kevinburke/Posters
Of course, they have mentioned that they used Pixel Art, Maya etc, but is it possible ...
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Pixel Art and Tracing
I'm taking some photos I've took and I'm attempting to pixel art-ify them.
Before, I have used Illustrator for this, but I found using a box->split into grid->live paint group to be cumbersome, ...
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upscale but keep pixilation
I want to keep the quality of my image low! I'm asking here because all my searches have answered the opposite of my question. To simplify: I've drawn a 60-something x 60-something pixel circle in ...
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Aseprite - How do I create a glow effect?
NOTE: I copied this from the default Stack Exchange website. Additionally the picture attached is not my own.
This question is based on the software known as Aseprite, a sprite and pixel art creation ...
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How to draw MS Paint like (aliased), 1px circle in GIMP
I was trying to draw some pixel are amd first thing is to try a circle via stroke path with miter set to 0, anti-alias off, 1 px line.
Here is what I get in Gimp. Part of the circle are ok, others are ...
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What canvas size should I use to draw pixel art for an 8bit game?
I'm working on the sprites for a 8bit game. The game is made for iOS so I'm working on a 16:9 radius.
What I'm not sure is whether I should make the sprites on a 1920x1080 canvas or if I work with a ...
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Scattered Pixel Effect in Photoshop?
I'm trying to learn how to create a scattered pixel effect in Photoshop. I know how to create pixelated graphics. But i'd like to know how to create an effect where the pixels are scattered. Similar ...
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How to convert every pixel of raster picture to square objects in Inkscape?
i.e Every raw pixel is converted into a vector shape of the same size and colour. No distortions, etc, just raw pixels converted as they are. How do I do this?
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Software to reduce colors to optimized 512-color custom palette
I need to take a full RGB image, and turn it into image that is optimized for a specific 512 color palette that I already have(I've been hired to make graphics for a Sega Mega Drive game). I can't use ...
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Resize (enlarge) an image without resampling (in favor of quality loss)?
How to resize an image or selection without resampling the pixels? I have some pixel art that I want to enlarge without losing the hard, non-anti-aliased, pixel edges. In other words, 1px should ...
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Is there a median tool for colours? (Median between 2 colours)
I'm working on a pixel sprite and I have 2 coloured pixels with 1 empty pixel gap between them. Is there any way (tool) to fill in the missing pixel with the mixture of the 2 that are filled?
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Photoshop CC 2014 - Selecting a pixel art isometric line
Is there a quick way to select an entire pixel art isometric line (i.e. 2 pixels across for every 1 down, see here for example).
Thanks
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Flash: default compression settings for imported PSDs
I've been working on some pixel art lately and whenever I import a PSD or bitmap into my library in Flash Professional it sets the compression option to JPEG.
I want it to be PNG lossless and disable ...
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can you make textures in magicavoxel?
I'm working on a project that allows the player to purchase different skins. Can you make textures in MagicaVoxel? If not what are some good programs to make textures? I aiming to make blocky 3d ...
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Resizing images in Photoshop - Paint style [duplicate]
Microsoft Paint is the worst image editing tool I could ever imagine of, but it has one good thing that still makes me use it over Photoshop: When I enlarge a small, pixelated 16x16 image, it doesn't ...
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What program should I use to draw pixelated retro-style graphics?
I want to create a Pacman clone and I need to draw by myself the game's graphics (pacman, the ghosts, fruits ,etc.).
I'm looking for a drawing program to draw it like the original ones, with those ...
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