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Comments How to save pixel art
In this tutorial I will show you how to save pixel art. Saving is definitely one of the most important things and I have seen how someone messes up his work by just saving to wrong format a lot. So, I hope this tutorial will help you all.
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I'm having the same issue
I'm using photoshop CS6 to do pixel art and all my png files gets kinda blurry, especially when zoomed in.
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Oh, many thanks :3
I guess it will work from now on ^v^/
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I really like the second idea about to save it as BMPΒ
the colors has changed and they look really niceΒ
i wish to draw a right cube/pixel art =u=
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what happens if you had already saved it before knowing this and it's blurry, is their a way to un-blurry it?
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Not really. Then it's messed up.
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what if i want to save my pixel art really big so people can easily see the pixels? Β how would i go about doing that?
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ik this is super old, but there are gif resizing sites where you can do that. thats how i posted my icon so people could see it
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I guess you simply have to zoom in, take a screenshot and go from there.
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How can I download pixel art (I'm doing a pixel collab) without losing quality or making the pixels blurred?
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Just right-click and save-as I guess. Because you shouldn't lose pixels when downloading.
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"Lets save it to JPG or JPEG"
Another mystery in my life solved.
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Do u have a How to make Floors. like Wood Floors / Tiles etc.?
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How to dither in pixel art
How to make shadows and light sources in pixel art
Not available?
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vanmall's reply makes it hurt even more xD
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This is only if you don't have advanced programs which save the image in a particular filetype format with no color reduction or blur.
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This tutorial was made for MS Paint as at that time, when I posted this 4,5 years ago, many pixel artists were using MS Paint. So yeah, it's a bit different with photoshop for example.
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Oh...that explains it.
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In MS Paint when I either save it as a .png or re-size it the picture gets blurry and you can't really make out what it is instead of sharp edges.
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IDK what software your using, but I've never seen a BMP do that unless it was indexed and switched to a different pallet. Also GIF works just fine if you stay within a 256 pallet. For true color however I agree, PNG is probably best for file/color/lossless.
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It was all done with microsoft paint, which at that time was quite popular program for pixel artists.
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THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! 
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A small detail, but super important. Much thanks!
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I want to post my pixel art onto deviantart, (so people can actually USE them, unlike .jpg or .jpeg) but it says I can't and it is saying something is wrong with my category, all I did was Digital Art>Pixel Art> Any of these> and then one or the other (Isometric or Non-Isometric) and it still won't let me post the pixel art, I have the pixel art at it's original size as when I first made it, (I also put the Color Palette on for some people) I have the border set so that it is 1 pixel away from the edge (where I cannot "paint") and I don't know whats wrong! I also don't know how to save it to a different file type.... I'm hopeless....
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What file format are you using right now?
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I am actually saving them as .JPEG images, so im not sure if that will exactly cover it, because I want people to be able to copy/paste my pixel art and use it, and the only current thing I have up right now is my griffin I made and that actually IS a .PNG image, but it took me a while to get it like that...
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.jpeg can mess your pixel art colors up unfortunately.
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well, all the deviations I have up right now are all .PNG and I tried pasting them onto MS Panit and they worked out perfectly! I couldn't have done it without you! thanks a lot, now I can finally start posting more and more Deviantions here from my YouTube Channel!! (xXGameBoyIanXx) thanks!
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I'm glad that it helped you.
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yeah, I really can't thank you enough, NOW I GO ON TO MAKE THE BEST PIXEL ART ANYONES EVER SEEN!! :3
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