Photoshop Pixel art anti-alias?

SkyMaple

I just made a pixel art character in photoshop. How can I enlarge it with out it getting blurred?

gyroscope

Hi SkyMaple, you'll need to buy a photo pixel enlargement program (I've never come across a free one, but you might be lucky). If you google you'll find a few. But even if you decide to spend out, if you've made your character art too small, you might be disappointed with the result - this type of program is more suited to images than art, and especially not straightforward rectangle images at that, without anti-aliased edges.

I guess you've learnt a lesson here - always make your art larger than it needs to be, or actual size, never smaller.

SkyMaple

gyroscope said:
Hi SkyMaple, you'll need to buy a photo pixel enlargement program (I've never come across a free one, but you might be lucky). If you google you'll find a few. But even if you decide to spend out, if you've made your character art too small, you might be disappointed with the result - this type of program is more suited to images than art, and especially not straightforward rectangle images at that, without anti-aliased edges.

I guess you've learnt a lesson here - always make your art larger than it needs to be, or actual size, never smaller.

Yeah. But with photoshop I drew it with 1x1px pencil. I guess I would need to start using a real pixel program.

outasite

you have photoshop. does that mean you might have illustrator too?

live trace in illustrator and it will turn into a vector.

Asymptoteell

if you don't have illustrator, use inkscape and use trace bitmap. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing as live trace.

Stan

you mean you want to keep pixel art but just enrage it right? I'd suggest Pixen on mac for pixel art or Paint.net and or MS Paint for PC. Photoshop uses Anti-alias

SlickZero

This method works alright if you tweak it around a bit. It works for images you create too. It's for Photoshop.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/29692/create-cool-8-bit-style-pixel-art-from-ordinary-images/

entersimon

You can definitely do your art exactly the way you are doing it, so don't think you NEED a different program. The fix for your problem is very easy:

Go into General Preferences

There will be a box next to the words "Image Interpolation"

Change that to "Nearest Neighbor"

BAM! That's it! Now you can resize without the smoothing effect. This also allows you to rotate your images without the smoothing. When you get done with your pixel art, remember to change it back.