Two Ways to Turn Your Photos into Pixel Art

Do you feel your photo is quite normal? Try transforming it into Pixel Art, it will be much more interesting.

Table of Contents

• What is Pixel Art?
• PixelMe - Convert Photos to Pixel Art
• Create pixel art quickly with Lunapic

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 form of digital art in which images are created and edited at the pixel scale using graphic editing software. The key to Pixel Art is its unique style of displaying images with individual image elements used as building blocks to create images.

With its unique and nostalgic style, Pixel Art is gradually becoming popular again. Many graphic designers enjoy it and apply it to different design purposes, for example:

• User interface design for websites
• Create animated images (GIFs)
• Emoji
• Avatar

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

Pixel Me - Convert Photos to Pixel Art

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

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

Step 2: You are redirected to the Select Image section. Here, click Select from the library to upload the image you want to convert to 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 pixel, the more detailed your image will be, similar to the real image.

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

• Background: Adjust the background color.
• PixelSize: Adjust the pixel size (similar to step 3)
• Spacing: Adjusts the distance between pixel shapes.
• Scale: Adjust the pixel ratio.
• Roration: Adjusts the direction of pixels.
• Brightness: Adjusts the brightness of the pixel.
• Contrast: Adjust the contrast level.
• Saturation: Adjusts saturation.
• Color: Adjust color.

Step 5: After adjusting the image to your liking, click Download to download the image.

Pixel Me has developed a mobile app with two versions compatible for both Android and iOS . You can download it to your device and experience more cool features.

Download Pixel Me on Android | Download Pixel Me on iOS

Create pixel art quickly with Lunapic

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

Step 1: Go to 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 adjust the pixel size. You will notice the change of the image right below. Click Apply to confirm the completion of pixel size adjustment.

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

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

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

Above are two ways to turn photos into pixel art that Quantrimang wants to introduce to you. Hopefully you can apply and create interesting photos to share with friends and relatives.