How to turn Vectors and Photos into Pixel Art! (Quick Tips)

Vectors: 'Image' - 'Image size' - Change to 10%, and select 'Nearest Neighbor'
Photos: 'Image' - 'Adjustments' - 'Desaturate' and 'Posterize'. Then 'Image' - 'Image size' - Change to 10%, and select 'Nearest Neighbor'. Replace greyscale shades with colours.
Reddit: u/Pixel_Overload
Itch.io: pixeloverload.itch.io/
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Intro and Explanation: (0:00)
Vectors/Flat Design: (0:44)
Photographs: (1:24)
Outro: (1:52)
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[@PixelOverloadChannel]

Oops! I forgot about a free alternative. Using _Piskel_ , you can open a new sprite, click _Import Image_ and resize by unclicking the _Smooth Resize_ checkbox. Thanks!

[@lucascalderon5922]

This Is GOLD!!!

[@Riksybuisness]

thank you so much this is awsome!!

[@iscrabafish]

On illustrator: Object > Rasterize >> Object > Create Object Mosaic

[@naisho828]

holy shit this is so much better
you are a god

[@nickbell1198]

This is amazing!!. So quick and easy to follow.
Definitely checking out more of your stuff!

[@cosmicrdt]

This is hilarious. In the old days we only had nearest neighbour resizing. No filtering. If someone resized a photo with deluxe paint or paint shop pro and called it pixel art they would have been laughed at.

[@formlessworld221]

That stuff deserves a subscription

[@calebjardine7]

I have done both of these oporations separately on GIMP but not together. this is a really cool idea. Thanks

[@boobak]

Thank you, now I'm a master of Pixel Art

[@PijusB]

A very nice tutorial!

[@Zer0sVoid]

ooooo, a great way of creating references!

[@iithebecksterii]

This saved me so much headache, thank you!!

[@Funnelhead]

Super helpful - thank you!

[@tobylerone4640]

I don’t know how you only have 300 subs like you deserve loads!!!

[@slash_estio]

Holy, just found him, he grew so much in the last 6 months!

[@antonioedmilson1810]

Now he have more than 9K

[@filmnlnja]

@@antonioedmilson1810 12k and counting

[@sazerae]

almost 29k

[@DaydreamStudios_Official]

If You Import The Image Into Blender, Delete The Main Light And Make The Export Resolution Small Then Turn Off Any Filtering It Works Too :D

[@yannyboi706]

Sorry im newbie. What is Blender? Some wbsite or app stuff?

[@DaydreamStudios_Official]

@@yannyboi706 Just Look It Up :D

[@teabags2day]

@@yannyboi706 3D software where you can blend stuff

[@neatcomrade8537]

Just what I needed Thanks!!

[@idontknowWhatTosay8]

this was so helpful! thanks. learnt lot from ur videos...

[@iqbalfebri4082]

okay what the hell, i am looking for this tutorial like ages and most of them isn't working properly. Today i just discover your channel and it's so clear, especially it only take about one minutes. Thank you so much!!!

[@PixelOverloadChannel]

Oh that's awesome! I'm glad it helped!

[@iqbalfebri4082]

​@@PixelOverloadChannel Yess it helps like A LOT and you already become my favorite pixel art youtuber haha. Can't wait to see more content from you!

[@VarionJimmy]

It was at least 25 years since I made pixel-art. A couple of days ago I found this channel by coincidence and now I’m thinking of starting again.
A trick I used to do was to convert the picture to gif format with just a few colours. Maybe a mosaic filter would work to? Haven’t tried.

[@nowonmetube]

Are you planning on going into a cooperation and working on a game?

[@AllanSavolainen]

Instead of posterize, create a custom palette with maybe 8 colors you pick manually from the image, or if lazy, just let your photoediting app select them for you.

[@fernandacloviseoreidomundo1743]

thank you so much that was really helpfull

[@willwyatt1144]

Yo amazing video great job

[@marcozedler505]

Instead of posterize, the image can also be converted to indexed color mode. There you have more options, e.g. diffusion. The color palette can then be edited manually or loaded from custom palette file. When this is done, simply switch back to RGB mode.

[@kevinjlakner]

WOW THANK YOU!

[@amir2k469]

Oh man thnx , it was simple 😬👌

[@braimix8081]

Thank you so much

[@mailaddress425]

thank you so much!

[@eyalav6293]

This is nice (:

[@afriendlyfox]

So approximately this is the process I need to code to make a shader that turns a 3d projection into pixel art. I will need a limited palette though, so I'll find a closest color in the palette for any color in the image. But I may need some heuristics to detect stray pixels and jagged lines

[@AIRpursuit]

is there a fast way to random generate some comlor pallet and automatically replaces the shades of grays?

[@vfxtigers]

Thank you

[@ian9050]

this channel is so high quality yet so few views...

[@deckarep]

What no intro about life story?!? Just kidding, your channel and delivery is amazing!

[@hotdognoir1365]

Thx bro

[@BaegreenFinger]

THANKS LOV U

[@naelpontes8444]

I noticed in the first vector drawing example you used resolution 300dpi and in the photography you used resolution 72dpi. Any thoughts on this?

[@dovgolovaty3910]

Can I do that using Adobe Illustrator instead of Photoshop?

[@giantenemycrab5596]

Photopea is a good allround photoshop alternative

[@StoryTimeWonders254]

Would you be able to do the same on Krita?

[@marvinkrist3019]

Hey, is it possible to do exactly the same things in Aseprite ? If someone knows..

[@Jono1982]

Can I do this with Gimp?

[@leooadi5311]

Omg I have adobe but I do not have the option you do ! :((((( what do i do

[@midi_enjoyer]

We need one for procreate

[@cinematic_monkey]

The real question is how to scale it up for high DP screens to retain the pixel look?

[@naelpontes8444]

Just need to resize it back to a bigger size after this whole process. Since it’s pixel art without anti-aliasing, every pixel will increase naturally and form a similar image. You can resize it by percentage (such as 200%, 500%) to not lose any quality.

[@progress_games]

I wonder if there's some kind of rederer to replicate large scale frame by frame animations in pixel art.

[@filmnlnja]

same

[@joycezhu2772]

after resizing the illustration into 10%, and convert the it into pixel art. How to enlarge the pixel art into its orginal size without blurring it?

[@ryrybreaded]

Most programs let you resize/crop your canvas, if your program lets you, crop your canvas down to the pixel art and it’ll appear bigger

[@sammyall9091]

Affinity?

[@siliciy_]

GIMP can do the same but simpler ;D

[@esperbros1609]

Photopea works

[@casekocsk]

Then why don't we just make our art assets (for video game) in high resolution, and then later just use this trick to create pixel art game?

[@PixelOverloadChannel]

You can do that, but you might need to touch up some mistakes with a pixel editor. If you're more experienced with vector art then I think it's a good idea.

[@vlgr7704]

how about turn video into pixelart?

[@HappyHeart35242]

Can anyone suggest doing something similar via mobile phone?

[@buster5661]

edit > reduce color
also just use photopea dum dum

[@Zer0cip]

Soooo with this logic if we make pixel art bigger than it makes a real picture🤔
(jk)