Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Stplmstr on May 04, 2010, 11:30:56 pm

Title: Sizing Stuff
Post by: Stplmstr on May 04, 2010, 11:30:56 pm
Just dabling in pixel images for the first time, but I was wondering if there is a way to enlage an image with out losing the pixelyness of it.

I did this
(http://www.diochon.com/fulcrum/guy.png)

Now I made it large on my screen and took a screen cap for what I want to maintain, and then one of what happens when I just change the size. Is there a way to maintain the look in the first while resizing it so that I don't lose the option of having transparency ect.


(http://www.diochon.com/fulcrum/example.jpg)
Title: Re: Sizing Stuff
Post by: moket on May 05, 2010, 12:44:13 am
if you're using photoshop, in : preferences > general > image interpolation, choose "nearest neighbour" from the drop down menu. Now you can resize and preserve hard edges.
I think in most of the image editing softs, you will just have to set the image resampling to nearest neighbour and avoid bicubic or bilinear.
Which tool are you using ?
Title: Re: Sizing Stuff
Post by: Jorund on May 05, 2010, 01:22:41 am
Remember to enlarge in hundreds (Ex: 200%, 300%, 400%, etc...) If not it's not gonna be faithful. When you enlarge by 500% a pixel turns into 25 (5x5)
Title: Re: Sizing Stuff
Post by: Stplmstr on May 05, 2010, 12:13:06 pm
Mo- Thanks :D

Jo- Ah I see that makes sense, thanks for the tip :)