Looking to expand my pixel knowledge
Printed From: Pixel Joint
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: 31 October 2025 at 9:07am
Topic: Looking to expand my pixel knowledge
Posted By: skittles.loli
Subject: Looking to expand my pixel knowledge
Date Posted: 09 June 2009 at 10:29am
Hi there.
I'm very new to pixel art (about 3 months new) and am looking to get some info.
Right now my friends and I are working on a video game project.
I have the monsters.
The game is done in a vector style of art, but the monsters take on a more "old?" pixelated look (think SNES style, sort of).
Basically I need them to look like they're 24bits (or something similar) while actually making them 150bits and larger so they can stand out on the 1k+ rez screen. I have achieved this by making a 6px block in photoshop and using it as my 'pixel' to build with, but its really tricky to use as it doesn't always line up right and there's a lot of backtracking to fix small mistakes I didn't catch until later.
We tried simply making a smaller monster bigger with scaling and whatnot, but it ends up messing the animation up and the pixels don't hold their 'shape' as well when it comes to the resizing, so we decided working bigger would have to be done.
So this morning my friend sent me mtpaint and graphicsgale to see if those would help. So far I haven't found the erase button and can't figure out how to bring back my large 'pixel'.
I figured I'd go to you guys for help. How can I make these larger monsters with a larger 'pixel' on these new programs?
If any of this makes no sense, please ask and I'll explain, but I think this post explains well. I want to learn how to use these pixel art programs, but I'm not sure I can, right now, with what I'm trying to do.
Thanks for any help in advance ^__^
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Posted By: q_Werty
Date Posted: 08 July 2009 at 4:56am
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I'm a newbie, but a quick and dirty way i always use when making "big" pixel art, is to open it in ms paint, zoom to 2x 6x or 8x depending on the zoom level i want, then just print screen, CTRL+V and zoom out again.
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