Spectrum 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: 13 September 2025 at 1:03am
Topic: Spectrum Pixel Art
Posted By: Bighead_Edd
Subject: Spectrum Pixel Art
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 8:40am
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Hi everyone. I'm new here, so please bear with me, but i'm hoping someone here can help me out. I've decided to do something a bit different for a college project that involves me recreating the style of the ZX Spectrum. I'm only using its origanal 8 colours (15 if I feel that adventurous) and I am going to try and recreate the pixelated look the best I can. The image I am creating is of a platform game, and will be printed at 600x200mm. So I need to be able to make it fairly large without the pixels going blury and losing the effect. I'm not going to make anything that looks amazingly detailed, its going to be very basic and simple with simple shapes and shading techniques. So that brings me to my main question. What kind of precautions should I use? What tool (In Photoshop CS) to use? etc. I've heard things about anti-aliasing, but have no idea what it is?! Thanks in advance -Edd |
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 9:49am
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use the pencil tool and place every pixel by hand. obviously u can
use the fill tool but no blur tools, filters brushes, just pencil and your 8 colours. Antialiasing is a technique used to soften lines. i suggest your read some tutorials first. check the tutorial topic for some good links! ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: +Dark Visionary+
Date Posted: 17 May 2006 at 10:30am
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Can you anti-alias with only 5 different colours though? ------------- http://imageshack.us">  < I'm British. Are yuuu? If so put flag in your sigaro.
Union Jack by Larwick Punk.Not.Dead |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 17 May 2006 at 12:47pm
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yup ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: +Dark Visionary+
Date Posted: 26 May 2006 at 12:34pm
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If your using a pallette with only 8 colours, can you still change the lum? I dont use set pallettes........... ------------- http://imageshack.us"> < I'm British. Are yuuu? If so put flag in your sigaro.
Union Jack by Larwick Punk.Not.Dead |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 26 May 2006 at 12:36pm
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You can use programs to edit a picture's colors, but not in a way that increases the color count. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
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Posted By: AndyOaks
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 8:23am
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As the guys have pointed out. Use the pencil tool in Photoshop. If you wish to scale up the image make sure you have 'nearest neighbour' picked in the 'resize image' panel otherwise the pixels will become filtered (blurred if enlarged and blended is reduced). |
Posted By: sinkquick
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 3:49pm
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Originally posted by +Dark Visionary+
Can you anti-alias with only 5 different colours though? Why is this? |