I'm referring to this page because the artist talks about the software, so I don't have to The tool i've found to work the best is called PixelPunch For times like that, there are tools that can help you, although you'll still be required to clean it up afterwards. It does happen though that you've made a sprite and it's not big enough, so you decide to scale it up. changing from Nearest Neighbor to Bilinear or Bicubic

What I sounds like you want instead is the ability to change image interpolation, eg. For example if your canvas is only 64圆4 pixels, then you will only able to get 128 pixels in total to work with. It is not possible to make a small full resolution picture, as I said before, the quality of your hires image when scaled down depends a lot on how big your canvas is. It is however more forgiving to scale up a hires image than a sprite of 64圆4 pixels but it will still be noticeable and is it still not ideal.

This is much harder for the computer to predict and you therefore often end up with a lot of cluster pixels or artifacts. Scaling up is never as ideal as scaling down because the algorithm has to add resources to the image instead of just removing them. Just make your sketch there, then import it into PyxelEdit and scale it down. There are multiple free programs you can use for sketching such as Krita, FireAlpaca, Photoshop (not free), Gimp etc. You can only scale something as much as there are pixels, so if your canvas is for example only 32x32 then it's limited how much detail you can cramp into that size. However, no matter what algorithm you use, the amount of details you can see from your sketch depends on the size of the canvas. There is no point in bringing anti-aliased brushes from photoshop into PyxelEdit because they're not meant for pixel work.Īs for the scaling, I think Danik is using the RotSprite scaling algorithm, for Pixel art that's the best thing you're going to get as far as I know. PyxelEdit uses the Nearest Neighbor algorithm, which is meant for pixel art. Just make a canvas that is big enough, then draw your sketch, copy it onto a new canvas and scale it down to the size you want. You can do this already, just not as pretty as he does it because of the lack of anti-aliasing.

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