NEED HELP! High Resolution Pixel Art?
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Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
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Printed Date: 23 February 2026 at 6:15pm
Topic: NEED HELP! High Resolution Pixel Art?
Posted By: SammyDodger
Subject: NEED HELP! High Resolution Pixel Art?
Date Posted: 01 March 2012 at 7:14am
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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 
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Posted By: SammyDodger
Date Posted: 01 March 2012 at 7:27am
| I basically need to know how to get my pixel art from Pixen at a 300dpi resolution |
Posted By: SammyDodger
Date Posted: 01 March 2012 at 8:08am
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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. |
Posted By: Alex Pang
Date Posted: 01 March 2012 at 8:16am
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Throw your mac out the window and get a pc.
And about the resolution: it need to be at least 640*480 to print it on a t-shirt I believe. If you need real details ask manupix... |
Posted By: SammyDodger
Date Posted: 01 March 2012 at 8:36am
| Thanks a lot man i appreciate the help but unfortunately im going to have to stick with my mac! |
Posted By: Trick17
Date Posted: 01 March 2012 at 2:40pm
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I pixel with Photoshop, sometimes on a mac too. Plus I don't have experience in printing pixelart, but I would just scale it to 4x or 5x of the size it had as original with "nearest neighbor" resampling. Or just try which size you need, maybe more, maybe less. |
Posted By: onek
Date Posted: 01 March 2012 at 7:45pm
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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? |
Posted By: SammyDodger
Date Posted: 02 March 2012 at 4:54am
| Thanks, what is nearest neighbor exactly? |