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Published: 2010-11-11 11:19:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 399; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 14
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I do quite a lot of pixel art; I just don't submit it. My first pixel art submission
This will probably be my new avatar. It's a compass! I love compasses. If I were in Inception, my totem would be a compass. Yes.
This thing has got so many colours that I think I'd puke if I had to count. And I had to go and manually mix them.
The shadow and light were also pixelled, by the way; I colour-to-alpha'd.
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Ooh, this is really good! I could never get it looking so nice; it's exquisitely detailed. 
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Thank you! (sorry for the late reply--I must have missed it!) I love compasses so much, though I'm quite certain I could have done a better job with the shiny effect.
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No worries ^_^ and you're welcome!
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Ohhhh I love the colour scheme. It feels like a warm autumn afternoon in an old wooden house's library. Everything is wooden and brown :>>>
What's colour-to-alpha'd?
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You convert lightness of colour to its corresponding transparency. So for shadows, the umbrae are opaque, and the penumbrae are semi-transparent.
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*Sound of all that flying over my head*
... D: Aaah, I am not understanding!
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Imagine you pixel a shadow with black, 50% grey and white. You go to your "colour-to-alpha", and it nicely lets you convert your pixel thing to transparency according to colour. You can set it such that white = transparent, and as such your grey will be converted to 50% transparency, and your black = opaque.
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Wow! How? O: It's awesome!
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It's in every picture editing programme with some self-respect.
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Except Paint and other primitive/simple ones.
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*Droops*
I sort of... expected it. It's okay; I'm fine. I'm dealing with it. No trauma here.
(ADLJDLUEOWEW MS Paint! The one time you get an upgrade, it makes you even WORSE than before!)
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HAHA I agree on the 'upgrade'--except that I appreciate the new zooming system.
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Nuuu! I always zoom in when I mean to zoom out! And
Y U NO HAVE RECOLOUR
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(MS Paint on Vista/7: U MAD? )
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