Bigger pixels vs. smaller pixels.
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Topic: Bigger pixels vs. smaller pixels.
Posted By: glerk12
Subject: Bigger pixels vs. smaller pixels.
Date 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 http://www.finethencomics.com - 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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Posted By: 7Soul
Date 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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Posted By: Trick17
Date 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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Posted By: Manupix
Date 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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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date 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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