Hey guys, im a total noob, i am using pixen for my mac, ive been making some nice art but when i save it and open it it looks tinyyyy.

I know its the 64x64 pixel canvas size but i find the pixelness gets lost when i make it bigger?

I will be making a t shirt from one of my art works, but most printing companies require the image to be 300dpi ... how does this translate into pixen? What sort of size should I be using for high quality pieces?

Thanks a bunch



Edited by SammyDodger - 01 March 2012 at 7:17am

and what is the best graphics program to make pixel art for a mac?

edit by cure: no need to continuously bump your thread, just edit the first post.


Edited by cure - 01 March 2012 at 10:22am

Thanks a lot man i appreciate the help but unfortunately im going to have to stick with my mac!

Edited by SammyDodger - 01 March 2012 at 8:36am

if ur going to scale up ur image multiply by whole numbers only ...sofor 64px it would be 128, 256, 512, 1024 etc... otherwise some pixels will have different sizes than others... also, to keep everthing nice and crisp, its necessary to use 'nearest neighbour' resampling,otherwise it will get blurry....
the dpi number doesnt really matter, for instance 2000x3000 pixels ARE 2000x3000 pixels no matter if its 72dpi or 300dpi, yknow?... its just that some printshops wont let u print if its not the desired dpi...
anyway... scale up ur image first using nearest neighbour... afterwards set the dpi to 300 but make sure 'resampling' is deselected... i dont know if it works in pixen like this, im talking photoshop right now, but it should be pretty much the same?