8-Bit resizing?
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Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 7:28am
Topic: 8-Bit resizing?
Posted By: gogglecrab
Subject: 8-Bit resizing?
Date Posted: 09 January 2012 at 5:48pm
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how do you make the correct size pixel for an 8-Bit pixel image? do you create it using 1x1 pixels and resize the image later, or do you use bigger pixels while making the full piece? |
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Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 09 January 2012 at 6:05pm
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You don't! A pixel is a pixel, there's no such thing as a "8-bit pixel". If you design gfx for a game that will run at a lower resolution or retro-style then it should be scaled by code in realtime.
But what you probably mean is "how do I make that old game look the same size on my new computer"...well, scalefactor = new resolution / old resolution (preferably rounded down to a whole integer). |
Posted By: gogglecrab
Date Posted: 09 January 2012 at 6:28pm
yeah I'm sorry I kinda worded that weird, what I mean is something like this: It's all made using single pixels but there a lot bigger if you were to load it into a program by itself , so yes how would I make that old game look the same size on my new computer? |
Posted By: yrizoud
Date Posted: 09 January 2012 at 6:57pm
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The simplest is to edit it at its native size (here: 128x64), and only scale it up 400% when you need to export it : for web, wallpaper, etc. If you didn't keep the orginal as a separate file, you can reverse the operation by rescaling this one 25%. All good painting programs allow zooming anyway, so you can watch the pixels at any size while you're drawing. On PixelJoint Gallery, pieces should be submitted at smallest size : there are some + - buttons to zoom at well. And in the forum, clicking any linked image will zoom it in. Use control-click to zoom back out. |
Posted By: gogglecrab
Date Posted: 10 January 2012 at 10:49am
| And what would be the best method for rescaling? |
Posted By: yrizoud
Date Posted: 10 January 2012 at 5:59pm
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...Use any painting painting program that allows it. Depending on the program, it can be called stretch, resize, resample, transform... Even MSPaint has it. If the program lets you choose a sampling method, pick "nearest"; all other methods (bilinear filtering, interpolation,..) will cause a smoothing that's unwanted in this case. |
Posted By: gogglecrab
Date Posted: 10 January 2012 at 7:39pm
| I did a little test and it worked perfect, Thanks for all the help! |