Two ways to help you turn photos into Pixel Art

Before learning how to turn your photos into Pixel Art, let's find out what kind of picture this is.

What is Pixel Art?

Pixel Art is a type of digital art in which images are created and edited at the scale of each image element (pixel) through the use of graphic editing software. The key point that makes Pixel Art is a unique image display style with separate image elements used as bricks to build images.

With a unique and nostalgic style, Pixel Art is gradually gaining popularity again. Many graphic designers enjoy and apply it to various design purposes, such as:

1. Design user interfaces for websites
2. Create animated images (GIFs)
3. Emoticons (emoji)
4. Avatar

You can also try turning your regular photo into Pixel Art through some of the ways below.

Pixel Me - Convert photos into Pixel Art

This is a software that helps you quickly convert photos into Pixel Art format. You just need to follow these few steps.

Step 1: Visit the Pixel Me website and select Get started.

Step 2: You will be redirected to the Select Image section. Here press Select from the library to upload the photo you want to convert into pixel art.

Step 3: In the Select Pixel Size section you can choose the size of the pixel you just converted. Note that the larger the pixels, the more detailed and lifelike your image will be.

Step 4: You can adjust your pixel image to make it more interesting at Create Pattern. Some items for you to adjust:

1. Background: Adjust the background color.
2. PixelSize: Adjust the size of the pixel (similar to step 3)
3. Spacing: Adjust the distance between pixel images.
4. Scale: Adjust the pixel aspect ratio.
5. Roration: Adjusts the orientation of pixels.
6. Brightness: Adjust the brightness of pixels.
7. Contrast: Adjust the contrast level.
8. Saturation: Adjust saturation.
9. Color: Adjust color.

Step 5: After adjusting the image to your satisfaction, press Download to download the image.

Pixel Me has developed a phone application with two compatible versions for both Android and iOS. You can download it and experience many more cool features.

Download Pixel Me on Android|Download Pixel Me on iOS

Create pixelated photos quickly with Lunapic

Lunapic can be considered an online Photoshop application. It provides all the basic and advanced photo editing tools. You can pixelate, blur, resize, crop images.

Step 1: Visit Lunapic and upload the photo you want to pixelate by clicking the Upload button.

Step 2: At Adjust, select Pixelate.

Step 3: Move the pixel bar to resize the pixel. You will notice the change in the image below. Click Apply to confirm completion of pixel size adjustment.

Step 4: Go to File and select Save Image to save the image.

Step 5: You will have many different options to save photos such as images with JPG, GIF, PNG.

You can even reduce photo quality to 90%, 80%. or share photos directly on social networking platforms.

Above are two ways to turn photos into pixel art that TipsMake.com would like to introduce to you. Hope you can apply and create interesting photos to share with friends and relatives.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 01 August 2024