Pixel Joint Forum: Bigger pixels vs. smaller pixels.

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   Something that I've been surprised at since discovering this forum is how small the pixels are that most people use.  In my webcomic Fine Then, I use really big pixels.  Does anybody else here also go this route or have any thoughts about the trade-offs between big pixels and small pixels?

--Henry

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glerk12 Seaman Joined: 11 January 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2	Topic: Bigger pixels vs. smaller pixels. Posted: 16 January 2012 at 1:22pm
	Something that I've been surprised at since discovering this forum is how small the pixels are that most people use. In my webcomic Fine Then, I use really big pixels. Does anybody else here also go this route or have any thoughts about the trade-offs between big pixels and small pixels? --Henry
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7Soul Midshipman Joined: 10 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 87	Posted: 16 January 2012 at 2:54pm
	You have auto-zoom here, you don't need to post it bigger. I find that "bigger pixels" are useful for low-res pixel art, like 8-bits
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Trick17 Commander Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 120	Posted: 16 January 2012 at 2:59pm
	There doesn't exist something like big or small pixels, pixels are pixels. And the most people here using "small" pixels, i.d. pixels on a scale of 1x, because the gallery and forum have a zoom option. Well, it makes sense that you are using a different scale (seems like 8x), because you are mixing pixel and non-pixelart (e. g. the font), but that's something pixelartist's usually don't do.
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Manupix Commander Joined: 05 November 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 771	Posted: 16 January 2012 at 3:22pm
	Big pixels are generally unnecessary on pixel art websites with a pixel-friendly, crisp zoom feature. They are preferable otherwise, because if viewers used their browser zoom on most websites, the pixels would be horribly blurred. This is unfortunately the case on this forum too because of, er, historical reasons ;) although not on the PJ gallery. At least people here are aware of the issue, and can download images if they really want to enlarge and view them crisp. As monitors achieve higher and higher resolutions, there might come a day soon when 1x pixel-art becomes a nonsense.
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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 05 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 23 January 2012 at 5:49pm
	I like to make my pieces 2, 3, or 4 times as big, depending on the size of the piece and it's intended purpose. Current monitors have screens with too dense pixels/too high resolutions for us to display on a 100% scale. Making a 32x32 sprite and showing it on a 1024x768 monitor, which isn't even all that high res, leaves us with more than 99% of empty screen space (99.86979166666666etc.% to be precise). Having it in the image at 2x will also keep it crisper when zooming in on sites/browsers that use bicubic filtering.
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