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Pixen: Make Pixel Art

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I was having trouble making an old school invader with fireworks because whenever I made it big, it got all fuzzy. My pal Jay sent me to download Pixen and balance was restored to the universe. Pixen's made for pixels, not your photos, so don't go replacing your photo app with it. Instead, use it to make your time portal to the glory days of the 2600 on your mac.

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Posted by: chairborne on May 29, 2006 at 8:46 AM

looks like a fun new tool, but keep in mind that if you had been using photoshop before and wanted to size something up and keep it pixellated you just have to go to prefs/general/interpolation and switch it to "nearest neighbor". No fuzzies.

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Posted by: robertadams1 on May 29, 2006 at 4:02 PM

Pixel art is a unique and distinct type of computer art that, like any artistic technique, has its own unique styles, theory, history and process. Check out http://www.natomic.com/hosted/marks/mpat/ for a good starter tutorial.

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Posted by: bongsanvictores on May 30, 2006 at 2:18 AM

Looks good butwhat a pity it has no Win 32 counterpart - or is there?

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Posted by: fungus_amungus on May 30, 2006 at 9:31 AM

And another tutorial:
http://www.derekyu.com/extras/pixel02.html

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