Remember the good old days?

[gnurf]

Back from my holiday and back to work... which I didn't do much today (shame on me!) because I got distracted by pixelating(sp?). Web designers and artists are talking all the time about hand pixeled images (and how to do it in Photoshop -"the only way to do it" of course) so I thought, why the heck not doing it Xara!?
It took me a couple of hours to figure out an easy way (therefor not much work was done - my actual work I mean :-) )

Here's the result:

-Paul

[gnurf]

Back from my holiday and back to work... which I didn't do much today (shame on me!) because I got distracted by pixelating(sp?). Web designers and artists are talking all the time about hand pixeled images (and how to do it in Photoshop -"the only way to do it" of course) so I thought, why the heck not doing it Xara!?
It took me a couple of hours to figure out an easy way (therefor not much work was done - my actual work I mean :-) )

Here's the result:

-Paul

[roman]

I live in the c64 scene hapilly since 1993. Check www.c64.sk - open c64 news portal. Also check a c64 Gallery which is in links on the upper bar. There is still a lot of life around this obscure machine. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[rgremill]

This reminds me of the Good 'Ole Atari days.

So, where's the tutorial? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[gnurf]

It is on its way, among the other tutorials I have promised to post :-) Just have to find the time...

BTW, while you wait, you can try it yourself, following these steps:

1) Set the view/screen mode (or whatever they call it) to normal (=anti-aliasing off)

2) Draw your image. If you want perspectives, use the isomteric grid. If you use outlines, set outline to 1pt

3) Make a copy of your image (or whole scene if you want to... I had the texts and the dudes separeted)

4) resize the image to 50%

5) make a bitmap copy of the image

6) resize the image to 200%

7) make a bitmap copy of the bitmap you just made

8) Set screen mode back to anti-aliasing

The reason we make a bitmap copy of the first bitmap copy is to avoid anti-aliasing of the bitmap when we change screen mode.

-Paul

[roman]

needs for sure more deeper exploration

[gwpriester]

Paul

Great effect, by the way!

Reminds me of some of the early Adobe Illustrator images that one would see in Mac magazine. Of course they could not help their images being a bit pixelated (which also means intoxicated :-)

Gary

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[tonylondon]

Has someone been reading Computer Arts Magazine?
Tony

[gnurf]

...it looks like they have plagiated my picture!
When I come to think about it, I saw the cover of the latest CA issue a while ago. It probably stayed somewhere in back of my head, just to let me get into some embarrasing situation like this [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
The reason to the image I made was actually an article in another magazine (but I guess the CA cover inspired to the motif).

Tony: I thought about buying the CA issue... Have you read it? Is there enything useful about pixelating? Asking just in case I would buy it (now I bought the CA special issue instead).

-Paul