Convert Photo to Pixel Art using Gimp

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  • @weakspirit_
    @weakspirit_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    as a reference, sure!
    as a pixel art/sprite, ehh that's stretching it by a large margin.
    some of the main feature of pixel art is the artistic look of palette, textures & lighting together. the shape of your pixel art is also important.
    shrinking images could only do so little. the textures are messy & cloudy. the palette is a soupy mess of "fluffy" colors. the lighting is often confusing. the shape becomes vague & too abstract.
    overall, i only recommend the use of shrinked image as references. even then, i would only shrink images by a couple percentage, not shrink into near indistinguishable blob of color. aside from that, i urge you to forget about shrinking photos used as pixel art.

    • @SpLineFx
      @SpLineFx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      At least he could change interpolation method from cubic to nearest or something, but it wouldn't do much.

  • @rolfathan
    @rolfathan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is more a tutorial of how to shrink images than how to make pixel art. It doesn't really utilize any of the principles traditionally used in pixel art. Especially with those aliased transparencies.

  • @lesleyshiels2781
    @lesleyshiels2781 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for all the help you have given me

  • @egonpauli1744
    @egonpauli1744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    5:09 "We'll just anchor that and delete the old layer.." this "just" is taking me an hour to figure out how to just anchor...

  • @Cubium
    @Cubium 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    TJ Free: Convert images to pixel art using GIMP.
    Me: Just import it into MS Paint

    • @thearcadescientist1165
      @thearcadescientist1165 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      TJ is my nickname from where I live

    • @jodymcdougle8810
      @jodymcdougle8810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Seriously? Import it into Microsoft paint, then switch to GIMP or Adobe to clean it up...?

    • @Cubium
      @Cubium 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jodymcdougle8810 it's a joke - Microsoft paint pixelates everything

    • @bmorston4994
      @bmorston4994 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is MS paint?

    • @Cubium
      @Cubium 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bmorston4994 windows built in paint tool

  • @BatteryProductions
    @BatteryProductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    with all those semi-transparent pixels im not sure if this can be called "pixel art"... i cant even figure out the pallet in use..
    this should be titled "how to pixelate a photo"

  • @xexesxpotion
    @xexesxpotion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You saved a pixel art... as a JPG...
    ...
    ...
    Oh boy.

  • @aednil
    @aednil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    that's not Pixel Art though

    • @weakspirit_
      @weakspirit_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ^ this

    • @laurentyarp514
      @laurentyarp514 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree. But the base idea is good though. I think that changing the interpolation and color depth could get us closer to the end result.

  • @empiirik
    @empiirik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm looking for a tutorial on masks. What's its difference compared to layers and so on?

  • @Nitwitz321
    @Nitwitz321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow thanks for this TJ! Oh yeah were you still gonna do that Papagayo making your own mouth expression tutorial? 🙂

    • @TJFREE
      @TJFREE  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're welcome. Yes, I think I'll work on that today!

    • @Nitwitz321
      @Nitwitz321 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TJFREE Perfect! Thanks so much man!

  • @KidNamedCullen
    @KidNamedCullen ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool, I didn't know you could do that!

  • @MF-sb8ms
    @MF-sb8ms 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My goal is to turn my own photos into cross stitch patterns. Is there a way to add a grid over the pixels? And to pull out all of the colours to show a palette?

  • @Joedex1625
    @Joedex1625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    does he know we can only see the top half of the screen

  • @MarkKaminari00
    @MarkKaminari00 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    But what kind of pixel art is this? You did practically nothing, you just grainy 2 pictures and that's it lol

  • @gl1tchygreml1n
    @gl1tchygreml1n ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there a way to make it look less blurry?

  • @RoisinBxox
    @RoisinBxox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was so helpful! Thank you. I have a question I'm sure you could answer, so my plan is to then use the pixel art as a reference photo for an oil painting. So i'd love to be able to see the colour palette that I would need to mix before beginning to paint, is it possible to do that somehow? Meaning is it possible to see and count all the colours that are neccesary? since its hard to tell and compare them to each other in this kind of image. Any advice would be amazing! thanks

    • @HuzaifaParachaHim
      @HuzaifaParachaHim ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes it is, you can draw a few rectangles on your canvas, then use the dropper tool( one that picks colour from the image) to choose colours from the image, then fill the rectangles with those colours.

  • @savnet_sinn
    @savnet_sinn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For everyone bitching that this isn't pixel art, I'd like you to do the sprite work for my indie game pro-bono. See, I can design, code, and even play music but I can't illustrate for shit, and I've been using this sort of technique for years to avoid having to demonstrate rectangles sliding around and bouncing on rectangles and shooting other rectangles with smaller rectangles. And you know what? It doesn't suck.

  • @y01cu_yt
    @y01cu_yt ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

  • @baris699
    @baris699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can someone help me ? ,im using ubuntu 20.10 and i cant download it. Where can I download?

  • @YourGuySmiley
    @YourGuySmiley 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Bob Ross of the digital age.

  • @adilattouijar3559
    @adilattouijar3559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As always great content thanks a lot.

  • @leonlee2599
    @leonlee2599 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't you just put the unedited image of tree directly into rpgmaker or something??

  • @moonwatchereclipse5291
    @moonwatchereclipse5291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    when you use this to make game art

  • @SkyFly19853
    @SkyFly19853 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So useful!!!!
    Wow... 💯💯💯💯

  • @bohyeoncha2023
    @bohyeoncha2023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thx

  • @koseiarima6562
    @koseiarima6562 ปีที่แล้ว

    already at 13

  • @kensleylewis
    @kensleylewis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the only thing I would add to this toturial is how to clean up the edges so they look sharp and not so blended ( anti-alias).

  • @manhcuongvo1664
    @manhcuongvo1664 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Clever

  • @argfasdfgadfgasdfgsdfgsdfg6351
    @argfasdfgadfgasdfgsdfgsdfg6351 ปีที่แล้ว

    That looks extremely bad. And saved as a JPG. Oh boy...

  • @jodymcdougle8810
    @jodymcdougle8810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really didn't enjoy this video. It was highly unorganized and the instructions were just all over the place. For those of you watching this for the first time, you will need a notepad and pencil. Also, be ready to pause, rewind, and fast forward plenty of times.

  • @thinhnguyenuc9263
    @thinhnguyenuc9263 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    what a noob here

  • @lesleyshiels2781
    @lesleyshiels2781 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for all the help you have given me