# Pixelize the picture **URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562 **Category:** Uncategorized **Created:** [August 25, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562 "2004-08-25T13:40:07Z") **Posts on this page:** 8 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![elwatie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a587f6/32.png) [@elwatie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/elwatie) #### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562/1 "2004-08-25T13:40:07Z")
how to make the pixel graphics like the one used in the [www.maroon5.com](http://www.maroon5.com) ?i’m sure they’re not doing it pixel by pixel… ---
### Author: ![andr\_in](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/andr_in/32/37_2.png) [@andr\_in](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andr_in) #### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562/2 "2004-08-25T13:44:34Z")
You mean the picture when it first comes down from the top? Check out the latest tute: [http://www.kirupa.com/motiongraphics/pixel\_graphics.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/motiongraphics/pixel_graphics.htm) ---
### Author: ![elwatie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a587f6/32.png) [@elwatie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/elwatie) #### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562/3 "2004-08-25T13:51:16Z")
how to make it just black&white? ---
### Author: ![Yuki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@Yuki](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yuki) #### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562/4 "2004-08-25T14:13:44Z")
It is made in photoshop you just have to play with the export setting of a gif file. ---
### Author: ![simplistik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/simplistik/32/7747_2.png) [@simplistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/simplistik) #### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562/5 "2004-08-25T14:35:31Z")
in photoshop it’s threshold + halftone screen ---
### Author: ![mlk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mlk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlk) #### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562/6 "2004-08-25T15:52:15Z")
Here’s another way to do it: Take your image, pump up the brightness+contrast if the image is too dark, and play around Image\>Mode then choose either ‘Indexed Colors’ (for the gif look alike below. You’ll need to select only 2 colors to the palette) or ‘Bitmap’ (if this option is grayed out then make your image grayscale first), the ‘Bitmap’ option offers other options, play with them a bit. Don’t forget to turn back the mode to RGB after that [CENTER] ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/d/2/d2bd0304fbff898cffc12dabd7c17d3d56b54d7d.jpeg) [/center] To color it in, just add a new layer on top, fill it with color and set the mode to multiply or darken) ---
### Author: ![DDD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DDD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DDD) #### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562/7 "2004-08-25T16:08:16Z")
> [@mlk](#): > > To color it in, just add a new layer on top, fill it with color and set the mode to multiply or darken) Thats they way I woudl do it. Except I would slap a layer style on it set the blend mode to overlay, then check group blends, the slap a color overlay over that. This way you can play a lil freely. GJ mlk. ---
### Author: ![mlk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mlk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlk) #### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pixelize-the-picture/120562/8 "2004-08-25T16:27:42Z")
indeed a better way to do it… :beam: