I'm playing around too. I mean, there *is* something that puts me off your pics, in seriousness i think it's bizarreness, i do like your bg pics and usually your tiles, your characters scare me..
Whatever my motivations, I'm pretty sure 'helping others' is not explicitly included. I do like showing others interesting stuff that they can make good use of -- And promotion is definitely good for drawing pixel stuff, I would buy it if I didn't mind Windows' silliness. I just objected to you kinda 'clowning' my post on the gimp. Yah don't need plugins to do stuff relating to doubled pixels in gimp, it is just a handy shortcut that doubles the size of the image along the axis which has lesser dpi. Easily done by hand, as i did for all my CPC mode 0 pics so far.

also, you seem .. slightly bitter? maybe just bizarre.

Yeah, names chosen from public languages = . They never mean quite what I want, public language is vague. Invention is better.

.. or you could use GIMP, make the image 160x200, halve the X DPI of your image (in the 'scale image' dialog), turn off 'view->dot per dot', and paint with an ordinary 1px brush.

The only thing to beware of there is, because you have halved the *width* of the pixels instead of doubling the *amount* of pixels, you need to scale the image up to 320x200 when you want to show it to someone). ( I wrote a gimp plugin 'equalize dpi' which does this automatically for me)

What resolution did you target it for? AA matters less on high reses, most pixel art is for quite low resolutions.

Also, consider using a screen mode that has square pixels (4:3 aspect ratio), as most screen modes are 4:3; otherwise your pics may look slightly stretched or squashed to others.

I remember.. something. I remember seeing you around pixelation before, not what you did though..